commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Manche
Manche (, ) is a coastal French département in Normandy, on the English Channel, which is known as ''La Manche'', literally "the sleeve", in French. It had a population of 495,045 in 2019.department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
in north-western
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
.
Heraldry
Personalities linked to the commune
* Philippe Badin, 18th abbot of
La Lucerne Abbey
La Lucerne Abbey (''Abbaye Sainte-Trinité de La Lucerne''later also known as "La Lucerne-d'Outremer", from its connection to the English crown, whence the name of the present commune) is a Premonstratensian monastery situated in the forests of th ...
(?-1452), who laid the first stone at the fortress of Granville.
*
Anatole France
(; born , ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie França ...
, stayed here twice in his youth and described the commune in a chapter 11 of ''La Vie en fleur''.''La Vie en fleur'', ch 11 at Wikisource
See also
*
Communes of the Manche department
The following is a list of the 446 communes of the Manche department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Saintpierrelangers
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