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
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Charles-Paul Landon (1760 - 1826), a French painter and popular writer on art and artists, was born here.
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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
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Communes of the Orne department
Notable residents