Sainte-Marguerite-de-Carrouges

Sainte-Marguerite-de-Carrouges (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t maʁɡərit də kaʁuʒ] ⓘ, literally Sainte-Marguerite of Carrouges) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Normandy – c. 1419), a French noblewoman and the wife of Sir Jean de Carrouges, Viscount of Bellême (c. 1330s, Carrouges, Normandy – 25 September 1396, Nicopolis, Ottoman Empire).

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, L'Aubesniére, Le Grand Chandon, La Bissonnière, La Blanchardière, La Bommerie, L'Être Gautier, L'Être Blanchet, Ste Marguerite Carrouges, L'Être Chapelle and Sainte-Marguerite-de-Carrouges.

[5] Sainte-Marguerite-de-Carrouges along with another 69 communes is part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.

[6] The commune has one river, the Udon, with three streams, Grand Pied, Moulin de Besnard and Coupigny, which are the only watercourses flowing through its borders.