Gacé Explained

Gacé
Commune Status:	Commune
Arrondissement:	Mortagne-au-Perche
Canton:	Vimoutiers
Insee:	61181
Postal Code:	61230
Mayor:	Jean Grimbert^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:	Vallées d'Auge et du Merlerault
Coordinates:	48.7939°N 0.2978°W
Elevation M:	186
Elevation Min M:	179
Elevation Max M:	316
Area Km2:	6.5
Website:	www.gace.fr

Gacé (in French pronounced as /ɡase/) is a commune in the Orne department in Lower-Normandy, north-western France.

Geography

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Chapelle Mongenouil and Gacé.^[2]

The Commune is one of 30 communes that make up the Natura 2000 protected area of Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge.^[3] The site is 21,541 hectares in size and consists of a well-preserved wooded landscape that hosts three protected beetles, the European stag beetle, the great capricorn beetle and the Hermit Beetle.^[4]

The commune has one river, The Touques and a single stream, the Bouillant running through its borders.

Notable buildings and places

• Gacé museum a museum based at Chateau à Gacé that shows a collection of 2,500 minerals, fossils and meteorites.^[5]
• The Lady of the Camellias Museum based at the Chateau à Gacé is a museum dedicated to the life of Marie Duplessis.^[6]

National heritage sites

• Château à Gacé a 14th century chateau listed as a monument in 1968.^[7]

Notable people

• Foulques du Merle - (1239 - 1314) was Seigneur of Gacé and Bellou-en-Houlme, and Baron of Le Merlerault, Briouze and Messei.^[8]
• Charles Auguste de Goÿon (1647-1729), a French diplomat and soldier who was the Count of Gacé.^[9]

Twin towns

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France.

• Kinross, Perth & Kinross, Scotland^[10]

See also

• Communes of the Orne department
• Château de Gacé

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 9 August 2021. fr.
2. Web site: Gacé · 61230, France. Gacé · 61230, France.
3. Web site: INPN - FSD Natura 2000 - FR2502014 - Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge - Description.
4. Web site: Natura 2000. Chambres d'agriculture de. Normandie. 11 June 2024. normandie.chambres-agriculture.fr.
5. Web site: Musée de Gacé : Plus de 2 500 minéraux, fossiles et météorites. 8 October 2019. actu.fr.
6. Web site: Insolite - Le musée de la Dame aux camélias au Château de Gacé. 24 June 2023. France 3 Normandie.
7. Web site: Château à Gacé - PA00110811. monumentum.fr.
8. Louis de La Roque, Catalog historique des généraux français, connétables, maréchaux de France, lieutenants généraux, maréchaux de camp. Connétables et maréchaux de France depuis les premiers temps de la monarchie jusqu'à la fin du règne de Louis XIV (Paris, A. Desaide, 1896-1902), p.25.
9. Web site: Généalogie de Charles Auguste DE GOYON DE MATIGNON. Geneanet.
10. Web site: Kinross' twin town pals get taste of local culture. Robbie. Chalmers. 20 August 2019. Daily Record.