The Orne ( French: [ɔʁn] ) is a river in Normandy , within northwestern France . It is 170 km (110 mi) long. It discharges into the English Channel at the port of Ouistreham . Its source is in Aunou-sur-Orne , east of Sées . Its main tributaries are the Odon and the Rouvre .
6-609: Fleury-sur-Orne ( French pronunciation: [flœʁi syʁ ɔʁn] , literally Fleury on Orne ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France . It is part of the Communauté urbaine Caen la Mer and of the agglomeration of Caen . Until 1916 Fleury-sur-Orne was known as Allemagne (Calvados) after the Alamanni tribe which once guarded
12-553: A significant role. After a series of disorderly cavalry skirmishes, the rebellious barons fled. They were slaughtered as they tried to cross the Orne , at the Athis fort close to Fleury-sur-Orne. Carried downstream en masse , the bodies of the massacred knights blocked the mill of Barbillon on the level of current Ile Enchantée . The victory allowed William to remain Duke of Normandy , thus setting
18-616: Is referred to as the Olinas by Ptolemy , is a homonym of Fluvius Olne, the Orne saosnoise in Sarthe, which Xavier Delamarre traces back to the Celtic olīnā (elbow). The waters of the Orne are typically moderately turbid and brown in colour. Its pH level has been measured at 8.5 at the town of St. Andre sur Orne where summer water temperatures approximate 18 °C (64 °F). Electrical conductivity of
24-717: The ford across the Orne . During the First World War this name, meaning in French Germany , became inconvenient and embarrassing for the inhabitants (unlike those of Allemagne-en-Provence in Southern France). The town council therefore decided on 23 August 1916, to change the name and to call it Fleury-sur-Orne in memory of the commune of Fleury-devant-Douaumont , a commune of the Meuse (in 1914: 422 inhabitants, school, church, town hall, 13 tradesmen, 10 landholding farmers), which
30-453: The stage for his later brilliant battles and statecraft. This Calvados geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Orne (river) The Orne flows through the following departments and towns: It also flows through the area known as Suisse Normande . Its longest tributaries are, from source to mouth: The name of the Orne in Normandy, which
36-504: Was destroyed in 1916. In 1047, Duke William of Normandy (later William the Conqueror), helped by Henry I , king of France, put an end to a revolt of Norman barons at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes , close to the villages of Chicheboville , Secqueville and Bourguébus . Little is known about this battle, but it seems to have been a purely cavalry contest, with neither infantry nor archers playing
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