Tinchebray
Tinchebray is a common French, located in the department of the Orne and the area Basse-Normandie.
Its inhabitants are called Tinchebrayens, Tinchebrayennes.
Armorial bearings of the City
Of Mouths to the alongside key of gold posed out of stake of two flanchis of same, to the chief of Sinople charged with a leopard of gold, accompanied with dextral and sinistral by a flower by lily by same.
History
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September 28th 1106: Battle of Tinchebray, Henri Ier Beauclerc, king d' Angleterre overcomes his brother Robert Courteheuse, duke of Normandy.
- 1259 : the seigniory of Tinchebray is attached to the royal Domaine
- 1622 - 1623: Tinchebray is touched by a epidemic of plague
- 1856: installation of the Sisters of Christian Education.
Administration
Demography
On the site http://perso.orange.fr/emmanuel.hamel/, Emmanuel Hamel reconstituted the population of the parishes Notre-Dame and Saint-Pierre de Tinchebray of 17th and 18th centuries, by in particular integrating there the 2600 marriages of before 1792.
Places and monuments
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Two churches of the 12th-13th century and 17th century.
- Ethnographic Museum .
- Church Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul 1830.
- In the Cemetery, church Our-Lady-of-Montiers the end 15th century, 17th. Built by Henri Beauclerc. Classified Historic building of France.
- Vault Saint-Remi, origin Romance, in the past strengthened, frescos 14th century. Built in the neighborhoods of 1350. Classified Historic building of France.
- Church Sainte-Marie 1860.
- Fountain of Montpensier 1883. Miss Marie Duchesse of Montpensier (born on October 15th 1605) was Comtesse of Mortain
- Ancienne royal Prison, Tribunal, market, 16th. Currently Museum of Tinchebray. In the vestiges of the prisons still the original doors of the dungeons are where one can see, engraved, the inscriptions of the prisoners.
Industries
The city gathers several specialized companies in the Ferronnerie and the Quincaillerie. Presence of a Chocolate ery Cémoi, located in the old abbey.
Personalities related to the commune
- André Breton (1896 - 1966), French writer, was born there.
- Guy Degrenne (1925 - 2006).
See too
- Common of the Flowering ash
External bonds
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Seen by satellite of Tinchebray on “Google Maps”
- Tinchebray one line
- Tinchebray
- culture
- culture 2
- Tinchebray on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Tinchebray on the site of INSEE
- Tinchebray on the site of Quid
- Localization of Tinchebray on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Tinchebray on Mapquest
- encyclopedia of the towns of France