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, a French painter and popular writer on art and artists, was born here.
- Marie Duplessis, 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.