Orne
Orne (; or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.department in north-western
France
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. The commune was formed in 1965 by the merger of the former communes Saint-Michel-la-Forêt and Tubœuf.
Points of Interest
National heritage sites
The Commune has two buildings and areas listed 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, ...
Château de Thubeuf is a seventeenth century chateau and grounds, that was classed as a Monument historique in 1992.
Buat tower is a
Chappe telegraph
The Chappe telegraph was a French semaphore telegraph system invented by Claude Chappe in the early 1790s.
The system was composed of towers placed every 5 to 15 kilometers. Coded messages were sent from tower to tower, with transmission being ha ...
tower, built in the eighteenth century, as part of a 58 station system, used to convey messages from
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
Eugène Pirou
Louis Eugène Pirou (26 September 1841 – 30 September 1909) was a French photographer and filmmaker, known primarily for his portraits of celebrities and scenes from the Paris Commune. He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle ...
(1841–1909) was a photographer and
filmmaker
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, who 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):