Les Tourailles

Les Tourailles
Les Tourailles
Location within Lower Normandy region  Les Tourailles
Coordinates: 48°46′00″N 0°24′00″W / 48.7667°N 0.4°WCoordinates: 48°46′00″N 0°24′00″W / 48.7667°N 0.4°W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Argentan
Canton	Athis-de-l'Orne
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Bocage d'Athis
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Odile Gauquelin
Area^1	2.46 km^2 (0.95 sq mi)
Population (2012)^2	71
• Density	29/km^2 (75/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	61489 / 61100
Elevation	159–254 m (522–833 ft) (avg. 190 m or 620 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.

Les Tourailles is a commune in the Orne département and the region of Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Athis-Val-de-Rouvre.^[1]

Geography

• Watercourses: The river Rouvre.

History

• Notre-Dame de la Recouvrance chapel, departure point for pilgrimages since the 9th century.

Administration

List of Mayors

Start	End	Name	Party	Profession
?	March 2001	Paul Le Secq	-	-
March 2001	current	Odile Gauquelin	Independent	-

Population

Historical population of Les Tourailles
(Source: INSEE^[2])

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Population	102	84	74	96	102	67	76	71
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Sites and monuments

• Basilica of the Notre-Dame de la Recouvrance chapel, completed in 1939.
• 16th-century castle keep, a good ensemble with two pavilions.
• Bridge of Tourailles, the remains of a Roman bridge.
• Pilgrimages on 8 September and 31 May.

People associated with Les Tourailles

• Antoine de Montchrestien (born Falaise, Calvados 1570,^[3] died Les Tourailles 1621). Poet and author. Known by the name of 'Vatteville'. He tried to revive the religious wars of the sixteenth century but was killed when making a traveller's stop in Les Tourailles.

See also

• Communes of the Orne department

References

• INSEE commune file

1. Arrêté préfectoral 16 December 2015 (French)
2. Les Tourailles on the INSEE site (in French)
3. The main biographical article gives his year of birth as c. 1575, as does the French biographical article.