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La Ferté-Macé
Commune
L'Avenue Thiers; l'église Notre-Dame (church of Our Lady)
Coat of arms
Location of La Ferté-Macé
La Ferté-Macé Show map of France La Ferté-Macé Show map of Normandy
Coordinates: 48°35′36″N 0°21′22″W / 48.5933°N 0.3561°W / 48.5933; -0.3561Coordinates: 48°35′36″N 0°21′22″W / 48.5933°N 0.3561°W / 48.5933; -0.3561
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Argentan
Canton	La Ferté-Macé, Magny-le-Désert
Intercommunality	La Ferté-Saint-Michel
Government
• Mayor .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal} (2014-2020)	Jacques Dalmont
Area 1	31.86 km2 (12.30 sq mi)
Population (2013)2	5,797
• Density	180/km2 (470/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Fertois, Fertoises
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	61168 /61600
Elevation	165–203 m (541–666 ft)
Website	http://www.lafertemace.fr
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

La Ferté-Macé is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France, in the region of Normandy.

History

During the First World War, the village housed a military detention camp, the Dépôt de Triage. Among others, the American poet E. E. Cummings and his friend William Slater Brown, then volunteers in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France, were held there between September 21, 1917 and December 19 of the same year, on charges of "espionage". This was based on their having expressed anti war opinions. Cummings' experiences in the camp at La Ferté-Mace were the basis for his novel, The Enormous Room.^[1] The three-building complex, with a church and two classroom buildings, had previously served as a seminary and lycée. The prisoners were kept on the top floor of the largest building, which was open and spanned most of the floor.

On 12 January 2016, the former commune Antoigny was merged into La Ferté-Macé.^[2]

Twin towns

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  Ludlow, Shropshire, England^[3]
  


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  Savoigne-Biffèche, Senegal
  


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  Neustadt am Rübenberge, Germany
  


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  Saint-Maurice, Quebec, Canada

Heraldry

The arms of La Ferté-Macé are blazoned : Gules, a beehive and a shuttle bendwise sinister Or.

See also

• Communes of the Orne department


• Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine

References

• INSEE

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