Nonant-le-Pin

Nonant-le-Pin () 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