Buré (French pronunciation: [byre] ) is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France.
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Geography
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Moulin de Buré and Buré.
The commune along with another 32 communes is part of a 3,503 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de la Sarthe.
The Sarthe river flows through the commune. In addition the river l'Erine traverses through the commune.
Notable buildings and places
National heritage sites
Buré Mill is a 19th-century Mill that was declared as a Monument historique in 1995.
Notable people
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836 – 1904) was a French painter and lithographer who died here.
Victoria Dubourg (1840 – 30 September 1926) was a French still life painter who died here.