Ménil-Gondouin
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Ménil-Gondouin () is a
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in the
Orne Orne (; nrf, Ôrne or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.department in north-western
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Geography

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Coconière, La Haute Bruyèreand Ménil-Gondouin. The commune is part of area known as Suisse Normande. Menil-Gondouin only has one watercourse running through it, the Ruisseau de Vienne.


Notable buildings and places


The living and talking church of Ménil-Gondouin

Saint-Vigor du Ménil-Gondouin church is a nineteenth century church that has been covered in statues and dozens of inscriptions by a single person, the parish priest Victor Paysant (1841-1921). The church contains the head of a statue, of the Crowned Virgin, that is dating back to the 14th/15th Century and was listed as a Monument historique in 1984. File:Détail église-menil gondouin(orne).JPG, One of the statues of the Church File:22 mars 2009 016.jpg, Churches Pulpit File:Victor Paysant.jpg, Victor Paysant


National heritage sites

The Commune has 2 other buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique *Domain of the Court a set of remains of an old 16th century Chateau that belonged to Antoine de Turgot, that was listed as a Monument historique in 1983. *Logis Saint-Honorine an 18th Century chateau with outbuildings dating back to the 15th century, listed as Monument Historique in 1975


See also

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Communes of the Orne department The following is a list of the 385 communes of the Orne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Menilgondouin Monuments historiques of Orne