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Le Grais () is a
commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...
in the
Orne Orne (; nrf, Ôrne or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.department in north-western
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.


Geography

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Le Val Benoît,Le Château and Le Grais. It is in size. The highest point in the commune is . There are a total of six watercourses that traverse through the commune, two rivers The Rouvre and The Rouvrette. The other water courses are all streams, The Arthan, The Beaudouit, The Moulinet and La Petitiere.


Notable buildings and places


National heritage sites

*Logis de la Petitière a 15th Centaury Manor house, built by the English during the Hundred Years' War, it was registered as a Monument historique in 1975.


See also

*
Communes of the Orne department The following is a list of the 385 communes of the Orne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Grais Monuments historiques of Orne {{Orne-geo-stub