4-629: Fleury-sur-Orne ( French pronunciation: [flœʁi syʁ ɔʁn] , literally Fleury on Orne ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France . It is part of the Communauté urbaine Caen la Mer and of the agglomeration of Caen . Until 1916 Fleury-sur-Orne was known as Allemagne (Calvados) after the Alamanni tribe which once guarded
8-565: A significant role. After a series of disorderly cavalry skirmishes, the rebellious barons fled. They were slaughtered as they tried to cross the Orne , at the Athis fort close to Fleury-sur-Orne. Carried downstream en masse , the bodies of the massacred knights blocked the mill of Barbillon on the level of current Ile Enchantée . The victory allowed William to remain Duke of Normandy , thus setting
12-742: The ford across the Orne . During the First World War this name, meaning in French Germany , became inconvenient and embarrassing for the inhabitants (unlike those of Allemagne-en-Provence in Southern France). The town council therefore decided on 23 August 1916, to change the name and to call it Fleury-sur-Orne in memory of the commune of Fleury-devant-Douaumont , a commune of the Meuse (in 1914: 422 inhabitants, school, church, town hall, 13 tradesmen, 10 landholding farmers), which
16-513: Was destroyed in 1916. In 1047, Duke William of Normandy (later William the Conqueror), helped by Henry I , king of France, put an end to a revolt of Norman barons at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes , close to the villages of Chicheboville , Secqueville and Bourguébus . Little is known about this battle, but it seems to have been a purely cavalry contest, with neither infantry nor archers playing
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