| 释义 |
- Heraldry
- Demographic evolution
- People
- See also
- References
{{Infobox French commune
|image = Ayuntamiento de Mortagne-au-Perche, Normandía.jpg
|name = Mortagne-au-Perche
|commune status = Subprefecture and commune
|region = Basse-Normandie
|department = Orne
|arrondissement = Mortagne-au-Perche
|canton = Mortagne-au-Perche
|INSEE = 61293
|postal code = 61400
|mayor =
|term =
|intercommunality =
|coordinates = {{coord|48.5208|0.5483|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m = 225
|elevation min m = 171
|elevation max m = 264
|area km2 = 8.6
|population = 4513
|population date = 1999
}}Mortagne-au-Perche ({{IPA-fr|mɔʁtaɲ o pɛʁʃ}}) is a commune in the Orne department in Normandy, north-western France. Heraldry{{Blazon-arms
| img1=Blason ville fr Mortagne-au-Perche (Orne).svg
| legend1=Arms of Mortagne-au-Perche
| text=The arms of Mortagne-au-Perche are blazoned :
Or, 3 fern fronds vert.
}}Demographic evolution- 1962: 3909
- 1968: 4322
- 1975: 4877
- 1982: 4851
- 1990: 4584
- 1999: 4513
1962 population without double countingPeople- Geoffrey II, Count of Perche and Mortagne, grandfather of Queen Margaret of L'Aigle
- Early Québécois settler Zacharie Cloutier (1590-1677).
- Jean-Pierre Poisson (1590-1650), an arquebusier who accompanied the explorer Champlain to Canada. Poisson returned to France, but some of his children emigrated to Quebec and left many descendants.
- City of Boucherville founder Pierre Boucher (1622-1717)
- Count Joseph de Puisaye (1755-1827), born in Mortagne-au-Perche, was the representative of the percheronne nobility in the Généraux States of Versailles of 1789. He rocks in the Counter-revolution after the arrest of the king and joined Chouannerie in Brittany. He was chosen by the Count d'Artois (future Charles X) to organize the English unloading of Quiberon in 1795 whose failure signs the end of his participation in the movement. He died exiled in Hammersmith, England.
- Philosopher and antimilitarist Émile Chartier dit Alain (1868-1951), born in Mortagne-au-Perche.
- Fashion designer Chantal Thomass lives in Mortagne-au-Perche.
- Colonizer of Canada Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal.
- Journalist Jean Planchais (1922-2006), born in Mortagne-au-Perche.
- Journalist and Swiss writer Alex Capus, born in Mortagne-au-Perche in 1961.
See also{{Portal|Normandy}}- Communes of the Orne department
- Perche
References{{commonscat}}{{Orne communes}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Mortagneauperche}}{{Orne-geo-stub}} 3 : Communes of Orne|Subprefectures in France|Perche |