Heraldry

Demographic evolution

• 1962: 3909
• 1968: 4322
• 1975: 4877
• 1982: 4851
• 1990: 4584
• 1999: 4513

People

• Early Québécois
  Quebec
  Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
  
   settler, Zacharie Cloutier
  Zacharie Cloutier
  Zacharie Cloutier was a French carpenter who emigrated to New France in the first wave of the Percheron Immigration from the former province of Perche, in Normandy, to an area that today is part of Canada...
  
   (1590-1677).
• City of Boucherville founder, Pierre Boucher
  Pierre Boucher
  Pierre Boucher and later Pierre Boucher de Boucherville, born and baptized 1 August 1622 in Mortagne-au-Perche, died 19 April 1717 at the age of 95 at Boucherville, came to Canada from France in 1635 with his father...
  
   (1622-1717)
• The count Joseph de Puisaye (1755-1827) born in Mortagne-au-Perche was the representative of the perche
  Perche
  Perche is a former province of northern France extending over the départements of Orne, Eure, Eure-et-Loir and Sarthe, which were created from Perche during the French Revolution.-Geography:...
  
  ronne nobility in the Généraux States of Versailles of 1789
  Estates-General of 1789
  The Estates-General of 1789 was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the nobility, the Church, and the common people...
  
  . He rocks in the Counter-revolution after the arrest of the king and joined Chouannerie in Brittany
  Brittany
  Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
  
  . He was chosen by the Count d'Artois (future Charles X
  Charles X of France
  Charles X was known for most of his life as the Comte d'Artois before he reigned as King of France and of Navarre from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. A younger brother to Kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile and eventually succeeded him...
  
  ) to organize the English unloading of Quiberon
  Quiberon
  Quiberon is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France.It is situated on the southern part of the Quiberon peninsula, the northern part being the commune of Saint-Pierre-Quiberon...
  
   in 1795 whose failure signs the end of his participation in the movement. He died exiled in Hammersmith
  Hammersmith
  Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, England, in the United Kingdom, approximately five miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames...
  
  , England.
• The philosopher and antimilitarist Émile Chartier
  Émile Chartier
  Émile-Auguste Chartier, commonly known as Alain was a French philosopher, journalist, and pacifist.Alain entered lycée d'Alençon in 1881 and studied there for five years...
  
   dit Alain (1868-1951), born in Mortagne-au-Perche.
• Fashion designer Chantal Thomass lives in Mortagne-au-Perche.
• The colonizer of Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  , Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal
  Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal
  Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal was a Canadian-born French colonial governor in North America...
  
  .
• The journalist Jean Planchais (1922-2006), born in Mortagne-au-Perche.
• the journalist and Swiss writer Alex Capus, born in Mortagne-au-Perche in 1961.