Passais Villages

Passais Villages () is a commune in the department of Orne, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of L'Épinay-le-Comte, Passais (the seat) and Saint-Siméon.

Geography

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Passais, L'Épinay-le-Comte, Saint-Siméon, La Richardière and Beslay.

The river Colmont flows through the commune.

The commune is in the Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park.

Points of interest

• Combles de la chapelle de l'Oratoire de Passais is the attic of the l'Oratoire de Passais chapel, which is listed as a Natura 2000 conservation site. The chapel roof contains a nest of Greater mouse-eared bats, which are listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive.

National heritage sites

The commune has four buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique.

• Devil's Table Dolmen a Neolithic dolmen, it was registered as a monument in 1973.
• L'Épinay-le-Comte Manor a twelfth-century manor house, registered as a Monument historique in 1940.
• Manoir de la Guerinière a fifteenth-century manor house, registered as a Monument historique in 1975.
• Menhir du Perron a Neolithic Menhir, registered as a Monument historique in 1926.

Notable people

• Julien Alexandre Achard de Bonvouloir - (1749 – 1783) was a secret French envoy to the American colonies who was born here.

See also

• Communes of the Orne department

References