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
Orne
Orne (; nrf, Ôrne 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
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Tourouvre au Perche.
The first photovoltaic road in the world was under construction in Tourouvre in November–December 2016. It was built by Société Nouvelle Aeracem (SNA), and dedicated by the French Minister of Ecology,
Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal (; born 22 September 1953) is a French politician who was the Socialist Party candidate for the Presidency of France in the 2007 election.
Royal was president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council from 2004 to 201 ...
on 25 October 2016. In 2019,
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
declared the experiment a failure.
Heraldry
See also
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Communes of the Orne department
The following is a list of the 385 communes of the Orne department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Perche