France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
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World War II
After the liberation of the area by Allied Forces in August 1944, engineers of the
Ninth Air Force
The Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. It is the Air Force Service Component of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), a joint D ...
IX Engineering Command began construction of a combat Advanced Landing Ground outside of the town. Declared operational on 3 September, the airfield was designated as " A-45", it was used by several combat units until November when the units moved into Central France. Afterward, the airfield was closed.
Points of interest
National heritage sites
*Domaine de Lonrai, the estate was created in the seventeenth century, it was registered as a
Monument historique
() is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...
in 1999. The stud farm was built in 1863 by Armand Donon. The grounds also cover the neighbouring commune of Colombiers
Notable People
* Jacques II de Goyon - (1525-1598) a governor and Marshal of France was born here.
See also
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Communes of the Orne department
The following is a list of the 381 communes of the Orne department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):