Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume

Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
Location within Lower Normandy region Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Argentan
Canton	Putanges-Pont-Écrepin
Intercommunality	Val d'Orne
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Serge Clérembaux
Area1	14.87 km2 (5.74 sq mi)
Population (2012)2	353
• Density	24/km2 (61/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	61408 / 61210
Elevation	124–276 m (407–906 ft) (avg. 200 m or 660 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

History

• 1620: Georges Pierre is the vicar of this parish.
• 1622: Jean Le Corsonnois is curate and François Guérin "parish priest".
• 1622: "Mr Guillaume Lesage, squire, gentleman of la Bocherie and of the Rocher de Sainte-Honorine(la Guillaume)". His son is Jacques Lesage.

Administration

Serge Clérembaux has been Mayor since 1971. He is an independent.

Demography

Historical population of Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume
(Source: INSEE)

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Population	392	373	322	320	327	330	366	353
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

People linked with the commune

Hans-Joachim Klein, a former German terrorist, who belonged to the Vienna commando in December 1975, was arrested at Sainte-Honorine in September 1998 where he had lived for several years. He was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment in Germany in January 2001 for the murder of an Iraqi security agent in 1975. He later benefitted from a pardon and returned to Sainte-Honorine-le-Guillaume.

See also

• Communes of the Orne department

References

• INSEE commune file

Bibliography

Jean-François Miniac (preface by Alain Lambert), Les Grandes Affaires criminelles de l'Orne, Éditions de Borée, coll. « Les Grandes Affaires criminelles », Paris, 2008, 336 p. (ISBN 978-2-84494-814-4)