Exmes is a former

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in the

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. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Gouffern en Auge.Arrêté préfectoral
6 October 2016 It was the seat of the county of Hiémois (French: '' Comté d'Hiémois''), granted before his death in 1027 by

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to his younger son, Robert, who eventually succeeded as duke of Normandy. In 1136, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke led an expedition against Exmes and burned parts of the town, including the church of Notre Dame. Herbert de Losinga,

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(c. 1095–1119) was born in Exmes as well as François Le Prévost d'Exmes (1729–1793), 18th-century playwright.

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