Mortagne-au-Perche

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Coordinates: 48°31′15″N 0°32′54″E / 48.5208333333, 0.548333333333

Commune of Mortagne-au-Perche
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Basse-Normandie
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Mortagne-au-Perche
Canton	Mortagne-au-Perche
Statistics
Elevation	171 m–264 m (avg. 225 m)
Land area¹	8.6 km²
Population² (1999)	4,513
- Density	524/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	61293/ 61400
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Mortagne-au-Perche is a commune of the Orne département, in the Low-Normandy area of France.

[edit] Demographic evolution

• 1962: 3909
• 1968: 4322
• 1975: 4877
• 1982: 4851
• 1990: 4584
• 1999: 4513

1962 population without double counting

[edit] Famous people of Mortagne-au-Perche

• The count Joseph de Puisaye (1755/1827) born in Mortagne-au-Perche was the representative of the percheronne nobility in the Généraux States of Versailles of 1789. He rocks in the Counter-revolution after the arrest of the king and joined Chouannerie in Brittany. He was chosen by the Count d'Artois (future Charles X) to organize the English unloading of Quiberon in 1795 whose failure signs the end of his participation in the movement. He died exiled in Hammersmith, England.
• The philosopher and antimilitarist Émile Chartier dit Alain (1868/1951), born in Mortagne-au-Perche.
• Fashion designer Chantal Thomass lives in Mortagne-au-Perche.
• The colonizer of Canada, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal.
• The journalist Jean Planchais (1922-2006), born in Mortagne-au-Perche.
• the journalist and Swiss writer Alex Capus, born in Mortagne-au-Perche in 1961.
• Supercentenarian and oldest person in France Germaine Haye was born in Mortagne-au-Perche.