Exmes

Exmes is a common French, chief town of canton and Communauté of communes of the Country of Exmes, located in the department of the Orne and the area Basse-Normandie. Its inhabitants name the Hiémois.

Geography

History

The Village is an old ancient Roman city, very flourishing, which disaggregated during the Lower Empire. This city was established on the territory of Esuvii, populates Gallic living the area. It was the capital of the Comté of Hiémois, reserved for Robert Splendid the, future duke of Normandy.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Saint-Andrew Church (11th-16th)
Priory Our-Lady-of-Cabins (17th)
Attic with salt (16th-17th)
néo-Romance Vault St Godegrand and Convenient co. (1879-1888) built on the site of the old keep.

The village is located near the Haras of the Pine.

Personalities

François Prévost d' Exmes (Exmes 1729-Paris 1799) writer and literary journalist.
Abbot Jean-Jacques Gautier (Exmes 1748-Alençon 1829) writer and historian, author inter alia " Precis on the town of Exmes" (1789), of a " History of Alençon " (1805) and of a " History of Normandy " but also of a curious philosophical novel " Jean Black or the Misanthropist " (1789).

See too

Common of the Flowering ash

External bonds

Exmes on the site of the national geographical Institute
Exmes on the site of INSEE
Exmes on the site of Quid
Localization of Exmes on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Exmes on Mapquest

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