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Orconte
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Key facts
- French commune.name
- Orconte
- French commune.commune status
- Commune
- French commune.image
- Orconte - Eglise Saint-Georges.jpg
- French commune.caption
- The church in Orconte
- French commune.image coat of arms
- Blason Orconte.svg
- French commune.arrondissement
- Vitry-le-François
- French commune.canton
- Sermaize-les-Bains
- French commune.INSEE
- 51417
- French commune.postal code
- 51300
- French commune.mayor
- Mario Hernandez
- French commune.term
- 2020–2026
- French commune.elevation m
- 119
- French commune.area km2
- 13.65
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Orconte
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Vitry-le-François
- Population
- 365
- Area
- 13.65
- Elevation
- 119
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Thiéblemont-Farémont
- Official website
- lapagelocale.fr/51300-orconte
- Image
- Orconte - Eglise Saint-Georges.jpg
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- Commons category
- Orconte
- postal code
- 51300
- associated electoral district
- canton of Sermaize-les-Bains
- male population
- 191
- female population
- 193
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-3-26-73-83-00
- fax number
- +33-3-26-72-34-47
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Second World War
- See also
- References
Orconte () is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.
==Second World War== Captain Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900- 1944) stayed in the commune during winter 1939, with the Groupe de Grande Reconnaissance 2/33 (Reconnaissance Group II/23). He evokes this period and the farm (opposite the church) where he lived in Pilote de guerre, translated into English as Flight to Arras.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orconte” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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