Condé-en-Normandie () is a commune in the department of Calvados, northwestern

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of

Condé-sur-Noireau Condé-sur-Noireau () is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Condé-en-Normandie. It is situated on the Noireau River. In the fi ...

(the seat), La Chapelle-Engerbold,

Lénault Lénault () is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Condé-en-Normandie. The former commune is part of the area known as Suisse N ...

, Proussy, Saint-Germain-du-Crioult and Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille.

Geography

The commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande. The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Le Mesnil, Lénault, Le Tremblay, Cresme, Rousseville, Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille, Le Hamel Roger, Le Vieux Douet, La Chapelle-Engerbold, Le Hamel, Le Mont Hue, Proussy, Les Haies, Le Coudray, Le Hamel, Les Îles, Bouilly, Solier, Vaux, Condé-sur-Noireau, Le Bosq and L'Abbaye. The Commune along with another nine communes shares part of a 5,729 hectare,

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conservation area, called the Bassin de la Druance. The Tortillon, la Druance plus The Noireau are the three rivers flowing through the commune. In addition the commune has five streams flowing through its borders, La Blare, The Cresme, The Vaux, The Hamelet and The Val Fournet.

Population

Points of Interest

Museums

*Musée Charles Léandre - Based in Condé-sur-Noireau, museum dedicated to Charles Lucien Léandre and other Normandy based artists. *Musée de l'Imprimerie Typographique - a museum dedicated to Typographic Printing based in Condé-sur-Noireau.

National heritage sites

The Commune has two buildings and areas listed as a

Monument historique () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...

*Galland-Duclos House an eighteenth century private house, that was classed as a Monument historique in 1996. *House on Grand Rue - listed as a monument in 1929, it was destroyed in the second world war. File:SaintPierrelaVieille 002.JPG, Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille Church File:Chateaudorbigny0142.JPG, Chateau dor bigny File:La Chapelle-Engerbold - Vue générale.JPG, La Chapelle-Engerbold File:La Chapelle Engerbold - Eglise Saint-Gerbold.JPG, Saint-Gerbold church in La Chapelle Engerbold File:FranceNormandieCondeSurNoireauEgliseSaintSauveur.jpg, Saint Sauveur Church in Condé-sur-Noireau File:FranceNormandieCondeSurNoireauParcMunicipalPlage.jpg, Condé-sur-Noireau Municipal lake with beach File:FranceNormandieCondeSurNoireauHospice.jpg, Hospice in Condé-sur-Noireau File:Monument dédié aux victimes de l'amiante (Condé-sur-Noireau) - panoramio.jpg, Monument dedicated to asbestos victims in Condé-sur-Noireau

Notable People

Jules Dumont d'Urville Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (; 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French List of explorers, explorer and French Navy, naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist an ...

- (1790 – 1842) a French

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and

naval officer An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service. Broadly speaking, "officer" means a commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer (NCO), or a warrant officer. However, absent ...

who explored the south and western

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, Australia, New Zealand, and

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, was born here. * Henri Duret - (1849 - 1921) a French

neurologist Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the ...

whose contributions to the knowledge of cerebral circulation and the physiology of the

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were important for the early years of

brain surgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty that focuses on the surgical treatment or rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, s ...

, was born here. *

Maximilien Vox Maximilien Vox (real name: Samuel William Théodore Monod) was a French writer, cartoonist, illustrator, publisher, journalist, critic art theorist and historian of the French letter and typography. He was born on 16 December 1894 in Condé-sur- ...

- (1894–1974) a French writer, cartoonist, illustrator, publisher, journalist, critic art theorist and historian of the French letter and typography, was born here. * Michèle Fabien - (1945 – 1999) a Belgian writer and playwright, is buried at Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille cemetery.

Twin towns – sister cities

Condé-en-Normandie is twinned with: *

Ross-on-Wye Ross-on-Wye is a market town and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, near the border with Wales. It had a population estimated at 10,978 in 2021. It lies in the south-east of the county, on the River Wye and on the northern edge of the Fore ...

, United Kingdom ''since 1980'' * Elsenfeld, Germany ''since 2004''

Former Twin Towns

* Poggio Rusco, Italy - from 1999 to 2021.

References

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