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Orne (ôrn), department (1990 pop. 292,900), NW France, in Normandy and part of Perche. Alençon Alençon (äläNsôN`), town (1990 pop. 31,139), capital of Orne dept. ..... Click the link for more information. is the capital. Orne a department of NW France, in Basse-Normandie. Capital: Alen?on. Pop.: 291 274 (2003 est.). Area: 6144 sq. km (2396 sq. miles) |
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In this unfashionable region Catherine the Great, always indifferent to precedent and thrifty of purse, had built herself in her youth a many-peaked and cross-beamed cottage- orne on a bit of cheap land overlooking the bay. If Mademoiselle Cormon had been a reader or a student, and if there had existed in the department of the Orne a professor of anthropology, or even had she read Ariosto, the frightful disasters of her conjugal life would never have occurred. |
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