Orbec

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

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Orbec has a manor classified with the historic buildings and converted into museum since 1980.

Personalities related to the commune

Family of Clare whose several members were lords of Orbec.

Births

1951 : Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, photographer, painter, sculptor, journalist, French
1923: Jacques Toutain-Dorbec, painter, French
1891: Rene Hell, actor
1870: Paul Religious bigot, architect

Other bonds

Thomas Jean Montsaint, priest béatifié in 1926, was cleaned commune
Benoît Gysembergh, to be press photographer with Paris Match since 1977, passed its childhood to Orbec. His/her parents held the bar-tobacco-PMU to with it Chive.

Events

Claude Debussy composed work “the garden under the rain” with the hotel of Croisy (private property) with Orbec. Hotel located Large street, not far from the church Notre-Dame d' Orbec.

See too

Common of the Apple-brandy

Twinning S

Frammersbach (Germany)

External bonds

official site
Official site of Friendly of the Resistance network Jean-Marie Buckmaster of Normandy
Orbec on the site of the national geographical Institute
Orbec on the site of INSEE
Orbec on the site of Quid
Localization of Orbec on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Orbec on Mapquest

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