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Saint-Paul, Orne

commune in Orne, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ251361 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saint-Paul (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pɔl] ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Geography

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Le Hamel Dauphy, Le Val Saulnier, Launay Vénieux, Saint-Paul, La Jambiére, L'Hodiesnière, La Pannetière and La Barrère.

Editorial summary

“Saint-Paul, Orne” enters the record as commune in Orne, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Saint-Paul, Orne and commune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 47-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Saint-Paul, Orne and commune.
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Why this record matters

“Saint-Paul, Orne” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Saint-Paul, Orne and commune provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q251361. Authority coordinates are 48.743, -0.632. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Saint-Paul, Orne primary sources, Saint-Paul, Orne archive and Saint-Paul research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Paul, Orne” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.