Le Merlerault
Le Merlerault 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 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.
Points of interest
National heritage sites
- Ensemble castral remains of a medieval residence with a circular mound, it was registered as a Monument historique 1989.
Notable people
- Foulques du Merle - was Seigneur of Gacé and Bellou-en-Houlme, and Baron of Le Merlerault, Briouze and Messei.
- François Pouqueville - a French diplomat, writer, explorer, physician and historian, and member of the Institut de France was born here.
- Léon Labbé - a French surgeon and politician was born here.