Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom (; known as Le Hom before 2022) is a commune in the department of

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, northwestern

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. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of

Thury-Harcourt Thury-Harcourt () is a former Communes of France, commune in the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department in the Normandy (administrative region), Normandy Regions of France, region in northwestern France. On 1 January 201 ...

(the seat), Caumont-sur-Orne, Curcy-sur-Orne,

Hamars Hamars () is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom. The former commune is part of the area known as Suisse N ...

and Saint-Martin-de-Sallen. Le Hom officially changed its name to Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom effective January 1, 2022.

Geography

The commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande. The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Hoguette, Le Val, Cropton, Martinbeau, Curcy-sur-Orne, La Bestrie, Le Quesnay, La Métairie, Le Poirier, Hamars, Saint-Silly, Paugeais, Thury-Harcourt, Les Trois Mariés, Saint-Bénin, La Fosse, Le Maizeray and Montfort. The River Orne plus The River Ajon are the two rivers flowing through the commune. In addition the commune has twelve streams flowing through its bnorders, La Vallee des Vaux, The Neumer, The Aunay Douffieres, La Hoguette, La Maladrerie, La Vallee du Puceux, The Pisseux, The Val de Cropton, The Val Quebert, The Herbion, The Traspy and La Vignonniere.

Population

Points of Interest

National heritage sites

The Commune has two buildings and areas listed as a

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Église Saint-Sauveur de Thury-Harcourt is a church built during the 12th to 14th century and was classed as a Monument historique in 1929. Château d'Harcourt is the remains of a seventeenth century chateau that was classed as a monument in 1927. The castle was set on fire on August 12, 1944 by the

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when the British 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division reached the outskirts of Thury-Harcourt. File:Chateau de Thury-Harcourt.JPG, Chateau de Thury-Harcourt File:Thury-Harcourt-calvados-eglise.jpg, Thury-Harcourt Saint-Sauveur Church File:Thury-Harcourt Saint Benin.jpg, Thury-Harcourt Saint Benin church File:Orne thury harcourt.jpg, The Orne River at Thury Harcourt

Notable People

* Pierre Gringore -(1470 or1475 – 1538) a popular French poet and playwright was born here. * Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny (1600 – 1648) a military person and

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, was born here. * Charles Legardeur de Tilly (1616 – November 10, 1695) a merchant,

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and official in

, was born here. * Jean-Baptiste Legardeur de Repentigny (1632-1709) an esquire, midshipman, and councillor in the Conseil, was born here. *

Paul Héroult Paul (Louis-Toussaint) Héroult (10 April 1863 – 9 May 1914) was a French scientist. He was one of the inventors of the Hall-Héroult process for smelting aluminium, and developed the first successful commercial electric arc furnace. He li ...

(1863 – 1914) a French scientist, was born here.

Twin towns – sister cities

Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom is twinned with: * Seaton, United Kingdom ''since 1982'' *

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, Germany ''since 1981''

References

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