Gacé

Gacé is a common French, located in the department of the Orne and the area Basse-Normandie.

Geography

Gacé is on the axis Rouen it Mans. Cours d' water: drums.

History

Roman Way Rouen it Mans.
Occupation of the city by English during the one hundred year old war. In 1417, English strengthened Gacé. The city reconsiders to France in 1449 the intervention of the lord D' Orval.
Taken castle by Chouans in 1800.
Destruction of the center of Gacé in June 1940, which was the 1st disaster victim city of the Flowering ash
Holy Railway Gauburge (Flowering ash) in Mesnil-Mauger (Apple-brandy) (unused)

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Church St fine Pierre XIXe, neogothic openings.
Beautiful castle XIIe, XVIe, out of red bricks, occupied by the town hall and the museum of the lady to the camellias.

Personalities related to the commune

MAIGNET (1768-1848) general.
MATIGNON Charles-Auguste count de Gacé (1647-1729) Marshal of France.
painter DEGAS and the countess of SEGUR marked also the city by their passage.
DUPLESSIS Marie (initially Alphonsine), which inspired with Alexandre Dumas wire her novel the lady with the camellias
MOIZOT André, " king of the évasion" and chief of gang to the Release, condemned to sat in 1947. Gacé is the epicentre of its exactions in 1945.

Local traditions

Twinning

Gacé is twinned with:

Sources

great criminal cases of the Flowering ash , editions Of Borated, Paris.

See too

Common of the Flowering ash

External bonds

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

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