Editing Formigny

{{Expand French|topic=geo|date=December 2008|Formigny}}
{{Infobox French commune
|name               = Formigny
|image              = Formigny, France, view of town from distance, June 2014.jpg
|caption            = The Town of Formigny, with the church. 
|arrondissement     = Bayeux
|canton             = Trévières
|INSEE              = 14281
|postal code        = 14710
|commune            = [[Formigny La Bataille]]
|coordinates        = {{coord|49.3372|-0.8978|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation min m    = 2
|elevation max m    = 77
|area km2           = 10.86
|population         = 252
|population date    = 2019
|population footnotes   = <ref name=pop2019>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011070/ensemble.pdf Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019], [[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques|INSEE]]</ref>
}}

'''Formigny''' ({{IPA|fr|fɔʁmiɲi|-|Fr-Formigny.ogg}}) is a former [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Calvados (department)|Calvados]] [[Departments of France|department]] in the [[Normandy (administrative region)|Normandy]] [[Regions of France|region]] in northwestern [[France]]. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune [[Formigny La Bataille]].<ref>[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2016/9/8/INTB1629487A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral] 8 September 2016 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

==History==
*15 April 1450: [[Battle of Formigny]]. The battle of Formigny took place here and the [[France|French]] victory, marked the end of the [[Hundred Years War]] in [[Normandy (administrative region)|Normandy]].
*In 1823, Formigny (487 inhabitants in 1821<ref name=ehess/>) absorbed Véret (70 inhabitants),<ref>{{Cassini-Ehess|39387|Véret}}</ref> in the northwest of the territory. 
* In 1858, Engranville (228 inhabitants in 1856) is divided between Formigny - most of the territory - and Trévières, in the southeast.<ref>{{Cassini-Ehess|12637|Engranville}}</ref>
* 8 June 1944:  Formigny was liberated by elements of US [[1st Infantry Division (United States)|1st Infantry Division]] during the initial breakout from [[Omaha Beach]].

==Population==

{{Historical populations
| align = none
| cols = 2
| percentages = pagr
| source = EHESS<ref name=ehess>{{Cassini-Ehess|14391|Formigny}}</ref> and INSEE (2007-2012)<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2123878?geo=COM-14281 Populations légales 2012], INSEE</ref>
| graph-pos = bottom
|1793 | 538
|1800 | 338
|1806 | 519
|1821 | 487
|1831 | 500
|1836 | 539
|1841 | 537
|1846 | 527
|1851 | 552
|1856 | 491
|1861 | 641
|1866 | 617
|1872 | 600
|1876 | 629
|1881 | 572
|1886 | 540
|1891 | 556
|1896 | 544
|1901 | 540
|1906 | 535
|1911 | 452
|1921 | 418
|1926 | 403
|1931 | 378
|1936 | 383
|1946 | 350
|1954 | 342
|1962 | 324
|1968 | 299
|1975 | 256
|1982 | 241
|1990 | 233
|1999 | 244
|2007 | 257
|2012 | 244
}}

==See also==
*[[Communes of the Calvados department]]

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://membres.lycos.fr/formigny The battle of Formigny] (in French)

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[[Category:Former communes of Calvados (department)]]
[[Category:Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia]]
[[Category:Populated places disestablished in 2017]]


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