Nonant-le-Pin

Nonant-le-Pin
Part of Merlerault-le-Pin
The railway station in Nonant-le-Pin
Location of Nonant-le-Pin
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Coordinates: 48°42′26″N 0°13′18″E / 48.7072°N 0.2217°E / 48.7072; 0.2217
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Mortagne-au-Perche
Canton	Rai
Commune	Merlerault-le-Pin
Area 1	18.44 km2 (7.12 sq mi)
Elevation	199 m (653 ft)
Highest elevation	251 m (823 ft)
Lowest elevation	180 m (590 ft)
Population  (2022)	411
• Density	22.3/km2 (57.7/sq mi)
Demonym	Nonantais
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	61240
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Nonant-le-Pin (French pronunciation: [nɔnɑ̃ lə pɛ̃] ^ⓘ) is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2025, it was merged into the new commune of Merlerault-le-Pin.

Geography

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Butte,La Reboursière, La Chauvinière, Les Terres Noires,Les Mandrettes and Nonant-le-Pin.

The former Commune is within the Natura 2000 protected area of Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge.

The former commune is part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.

Nonant-le-Pin has 2 rivers that run through it, the Dieuge and the Ure.

Notable people

• Charles-Paul Landon (1760 - 1826), a French painter and popular writer on art and artists, was born here.
• Marie Duplessis (1824-1847), a French courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent and wealthy men was born here. She was the inspiration for Marguerite Gautier, the main character of the 1848 novel The Lady of the Camellias.

See also

• Communes of the Orne department

Notable residents

• Marie Duplessis

References

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