Mortrée
commune in Orne, France / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mortrée is a village in Normandy, in the Orne department. It covers 23.36 square kilometres (9.02 sq mi). It is at 173 metres (568 ft) above sea level. There are 1042 people living there in 2012.
The famous Normand family named "d'O" lived here. It became famous in the first crusade. The Marquis d'O (died in 1594) was finance minister and he was the favourite of Henry III of France.
On 1 January 2019, the former commune Saint-Hilaire-la-Gérard was merged into Mortrée.[1]