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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.
Geography
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, L'Herbeyand Merri.
The
River Dives
The Dives (; also ''Dive'') is a 105 km long river in the Pays d'Auge, Normandy, France. It flows into the English Channel in Cabourg.
The source of the Dives is near Exmes, in the Orne department. The Dives flows generally north through t ...
runs through the commune.
Places of interest
*Camp de Bierre is an archaeological site dating back to the
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...
era. The main dry-stone wall of the site measures 32 metres across and is 7 metres in height.
File:Camp de Bierre.jpg, Camp de Bierre
File:Monument aux morts de Merri (Bière).jpg, Monument aux morts in Merri
Notable People
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Jacqueline Pierreux
Jacqueline Pierreux (15 January 1923 – 10 March 2005) was a French film and television actress.Philip Mosley p.105 From the early 1970s onwards she also enjoyed success as a producer.
She was the wife of screenwriter Pierre Léaud and the mot ...
- (1923 – 2005) a French film and television actress, is buried 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):