Nonant-le-Pin
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox French commune
|name = Nonant-le-Pin
|commune = Merlerault-le-Pin
|image = Gare de Nonant-le-Pin 01.jpg
|caption = The railway station in Nonant-le-Pin
|arrondissement = Mortagne-au-Perche
|canton = Rai
|INSEE = 61310
|postal code = 61240
|coordinates = {{coord|48.7072|0.2217|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m = 199
|elevation min m = 180
|elevation max m = 251
|area km2 = 18.44
|population = 411
|population date = 2022
|population footnotes = {{cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/8290591/ensemble.pdf|title=Populations de référence 2022|language=fr|trans-title=Reference populations 2022|publisher=INSEE|date=December 2024}}
|demonym = Nonantais
}}
Nonant-le-Pin ({{IPA|fr|nɔnɑ̃ lə pɛ̃|-|Fr-Nonant-le-Pin.ogg}}) 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.{{Citation |title=Arrêté du 13 septembre 2024 portant création de la commune nouvelle de Merlerault-le-Pin |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2024/9/13/ATDB2434595A/jo/texte |access-date=16 January 2025|publisher=Légifrance}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/61240+Nonant-le-Pin,+France/@48.705697,0.1903131,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x47e21d765a861013:0x40c14484fb81180!8m2!3d48.7069199!4d0.217466!16s/m/03qgq9c?entry=ttu|title=Nonant-le-Pin · 61240, France|website=Nonant-le-Pin · 61240, France}}
The former Commune is within the Natura 2000 protected area of Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge.{{Cite web|url=https://inpn.mnhn.fr/site/natura2000/FR2502014|title=INPN - FSD Natura 2000 - FR2502014 - Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge - Description}}
The former commune is part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.{{Cite web|url=https://inpn.mnhn.fr/site/natura2000/FR2500099|title=INPN - FSD Natura 2000 - FR2500099 - Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents - Description}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://data.bnf.fr/12256190/charles-paul_landon/|title=Charles-Paul Landon (1760-1826)|website=data.bnf.fr}}
- Marie Duplessis (1824-1847), a French courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent and wealthy men was born here.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lateteauloup.fr/visiter-dormir.php|title=Auberge Restaurant La Tête au Loup : site touristique du Haras du Pin, circuit de la Dame aux Camélias, Orne, Normandie 61|website=www.lateteauloup.fr}} She was the inspiration for Marguerite Gautier, the main character of the 1848 novel The Lady of the Camellias.{{Cite web|url=https://www.roh.org.uk/news/the-real-traviata-the-tragic-true-story-that-inspired-la-traviata|title=The Real Traviata: The tragic true story that inspired La traviata|website=www.roh.org.uk}}