Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume

Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
Commune
The Joasière chateau in Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
Location of Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
Coordinates: 48°46′54″N 0°22′41″W
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentOrne
ArrondissementArgentan
CantonAthis-de-l'Orne
IntercommunalityVal d'Orne
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Serge Clérembaux
Area
1
14.87 km2 (5.74 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
334
 • Density22/km2 (58/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
61408 /61210
Elevation124–276 m (407–906 ft)
(avg. 200 m or 660 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History
  • 1620: Georges Pierre is the vicar of this parish.
  • 1622: Jean Le Corsonnois is curate and François Guérin "parish priest".
  • 1622: "Mr Guillaume Lesage, squire, gentleman of la Bocherie and of the Rocher de Sainte-Honorine(la Guillaume)". His son is Jacques Lesage.

Administration

Serge Clérembaux has been Mayor since 1971. He is an independent.

Demography
Historical population of Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
(Source: INSEE[2])
Year19621968197519821990199920062012
Population392373322320327330366353
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

People linked with the commune

Hans-Joachim Klein, a former German terrorist, who belonged to the Vienna commando in December 1975, was arrested at Sainte-Honorine in September 1998 where he had lived for several years. He was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment in Germany in January 2001 for the murder of an Iraqi security agent in 1975. He later benefitted from a pardon and returned to Sainte-Honorine-le-Guillaume.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume sur le site de l'Insee
  3. Miniac, 2008

Bibliography

Jean-François Miniac (preface by Alain Lambert), Les Grandes Affaires criminelles de l'Orne, Éditions de Borée, coll. « Les Grandes Affaires criminelles », Paris, 2008, 336 p. (ISBN 978-2-84494-814-4)



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