Les Tourailles

Part of Athis-Val-de-Rouvre in Normandy, France

Location of Les Tourailles

48°46′00″N 0°24′00″W / 48.7667°N 0.4°W / 48.7667; -0.4CountryFranceRegionNormandyDepartmentOrneArrondissementArgentanCantonAthis-de-l'OrneCommuneAthis-Val-de-Rouvre Area

2.46 km² (0.95 sq mi)Population

(2019)^[1]

59 • Density24/km² (62/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal code

61100

Elevation159–254 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.

Les Tourailles (French pronunciation: [le tuʁaj] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Orne département and the region of Normandy in north-western France.^[2] On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Athis-Val-de-Rouvre.^[3] The former commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande.^[4]

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
?	March 2001	Paul Le Secq	-
March 2001	2016	Odile Gauquelin	Independent

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1962	102	—
1968	84	−3.18%
1975	74	−1.79%
1982	96	+3.79%
1990	102	+0.76%
1999	67	−4.56%
2007	75	+1.42%
2012	71	−1.09%
2019	59	−2.61%
Source: EHESS^[2] and INSEE (2007-2019)^[5]^[1]

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,^[6] 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.

References

^ ^a ^b Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
^ ^a ^b Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Les Tourailles, EHESS (in French).
^ Arrêté préfectoral 16 December 2015 (in French)
^ "Map of Suiss Normande" (PDF).
^ "Populations légales 2012: Commune des Tourailles (61489)". INSEE. 27 December 2014.
^ The main biographical article gives his year of birth as c. 1575, as does the French biographical article.