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Flag of Vire Normandie - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 19 March 2021
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The municipality of Vire Normandie (16,885 inhabitants in 2018; 13,852 ha), located 60 km south-west of Caen and 40 km south-east of Saint-Lô, was established on 1 January 2016 as the merger of the former municipaities of Vire (seat), Coulonces, Maisoncelles-la-Jourdan, Roullours, Saint-Germain-de-Tallevende-la-Lande-Vaumont, Truttemer-le-Grand, Truttemer-le-Petit, and Vaudry.
Vire emerged around a redoubt built in 1123 on a rocky hill top surrounded by the Vire river by Henry I Beauclerc, King of England and Duke of Normandy. At the beginning of the 13th century, Louis IX ordered that the existing stonework be supplemented with exterior ramparts. However this second precinct was only finished 100 years later.
At the end of the Middle Ages, the village prospered, first with leather, and then with textiles. During the Hundred Years' War, Vire was plundered in 1368 by large military companies, and delivered to the English in 1418. The English occupation would end in 1450.
During the reign of Louis XIII, because a number of Fortifications of the Middle Ages served in rebellions by the Huguenots in particular, the castle and its precinct were dismantled on orders of Richelieu.
On 6 June 1944, during the Second World War, around 8:00 pm, like many Norman towns and villages, Vire suffered heavily from the British bombings, and 95% of the town was destroyed.
Olivier Touzeau, 19 March 2021
The flag of Vire Normandie (photo, photo) is white with the municipal logo.
Olivier Touzeau, 19 March 2021
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Flag of Vire Normandie - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 19 March 2021
The flag of Vire (photo) was white with the municipal logo.
Olivier Touzeau, 19 March 2021