Champsecret () is a commune in the

Orne Orne (; 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, La Chesnaie, Les Fourchets, La Botellerie, Le Hamel, Le Tertre, Pont de Pierre, La Noé, La Basse Verrerie, L'Ermitage and Champsecret. It is in size. The highest point in the commune is . The commune is within the

Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park ( Fr.: ''Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine'') is a protected area of forest and bocage located in the French regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire. Geography Spanning the departments of Orne, Manch ...

. Champsecret along with the communes of Perrou,

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, Dompierre and

Domfront en Poiraie Domfront en Poiraie (, literally ''Domfront in Pear Orchard'') is a commune in the department of Orne, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Domfront (the seat), La Haute-C ...

is part of the Bassin de l'Andainette a

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conservation site. The site measures 617 hectares and is home to creatures such as the Bullhead,

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and

white-clawed crayfish ''Austropotamobius pallipes'' is an endangered European freshwater crayfish, and the only crayfish native to the British Isles. Its common names include white-clawed crayfish and Atlantic stream crayfish. Distribution It is found from the easter ...

. The Andainette and the

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are the two rivers, running through this commune.

Points of interest

Arboretum de l'Étoile des Andaines An arboretum (: arboreta) is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees and shrubs of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, many modern arbor ...

- Created in 1947 this

arboretum An arboretum (: arboreta) is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees and shrubs of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, many modern arbor ...

features over 70 hardwood and Conifer trees.

National heritage sites

The Commune has four buildings and areas listed as a

Monument historique () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...

. *Forges de Varennes the site features a blast furnace built in 1767, a refinery and a splitting mill, it was registered as a monument in 1987. *Champsecret Church a seventeenth century church, registered as a

in 1984. *Cross of the old cemetery a sixteenth century hexagonal granite cross, registered as a

in 1938. *Old manor a fourteenth century manor, registered as a

in 1926.

Notable People

* Auguste-François Maunoury - (1811–1898) was a Catholic Hellenist and

exegete Exegesis ( ; from the Greek , from , "to lead out") is a critical explanation or interpretation of a text. The term is traditionally applied to the interpretation of Biblical works. In modern usage, exegesis can involve critical interpretation ...

, who was born here. *

Louis Corbière François Marie Louis Corbière (10 May 1850, Champsecret – 3 January 1941, Cherbourg) was a French botanist and mycologist. He worked as a school teacher in the town of Sées, followed by similar duties in Argentan (1869). In 1882 he became ...

- (1850 - 1941) a French

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

and

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, food, traditional medicine, as well as entheogens, poison, and ...

was born here. * Charles Lucien Léandre - (1862–1934) was a French

caricaturist A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. List of caricaturists * Abed Abdi (born 1942) * Abril Lamarque (1904–1999) * Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003) * Alex Gard (1900–1948) * Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977) * Alfre ...

and

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

, who was born here, and later buried here.

References

Communes of Orne Orne communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia Monuments historiques of Orne {{Argentan-geo-stub

Geography

Points of interest

National heritage sites

Notable People

See also

References