Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume

Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume

Coordinates: 48°46′54″N 0°22′41″W / 48.7817°N 0.3781°W / 48.7817; -0.3781Coordinates: 48°46′54″N 0°22′41″W / 48.7817°N 0.3781°W / 48.7817; -0.3781
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Orne
Arrondissement Argentan
Canton Putanges-Pont-Écrepin
Intercommunality Val d'Orne
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Serge Clérembaux
Area1 14.87 km2 (5.74 sq mi)
Population (2012)2 353
 • Density 24/km2 (61/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 61408 / 61210
Elevation 124–276 m (407–906 ft)
(avg. 200 m or 660 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

History

Administration

Serge Clérembaux has been Mayor since 1971. He is an independent.

Demography

Historical population of Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
(Source: INSEE[1])
Year19621968197519821990199920062012
Population392373322320327330366353
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

People linked with the commune

Hans-Joachim Klein, a former German terrorist, who belonged to the Vienna commando in December 1975, was arrested at Sainte-Honorine in September 1998 where he had lived for several years. He was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment in Germany in January 2001 for the murder of an Iraqi security agent in 1975. He later benefitted from a pardon and returned to Sainte-Honorine-le-Guillaume.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume sur le site de l'Insee
  2. ↑ Miniac, 2008

Bibliography

Jean-François Miniac (preface by Alain Lambert), Les Grandes Affaires criminelles de l'Orne, Éditions de Borée, coll. « Les Grandes Affaires criminelles », Paris, 2008, 336 p. (ISBN 978-2-84494-814-4)

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