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MORTAGNE

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 875 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORTAGNE  , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Orne, 24 M . E.N.E. of Alengon by See also:rail . Pop . (1906), 3383 . A vaulted entrance (15th See also:century), relic of an old stronghold, and the See also:church of Notre-See also:Dame (15th and 16th centuries) with a See also:fine northern portal are of See also:interest . The town is the seat of a sub-prefecture and of a tribunal of first instance, and is a celebrated See also:market for horses of the See also:Perche breed . Mortagne, once capital of the Perche, See also:dates from the loth century .

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