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Ménil-Gondouin (French pronunciation: [menil ɡɔ̃dwɛ̃] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Geography

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Coconière, La Haute Bruyèreand Ménil-Gondouin.^[3]

The commune is part of area known as Suisse Normande.^[4]

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).^[5]

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.^[6]

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  One of the statues of the Church
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  Churches Pulpit
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  Victor Paysant

National heritage sites

The Commune has 2 other buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique^[4]

• 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.^[7]
• Logis Saint-Honorine an 18th Century chateau with outbuildings dating back to the 15th century, listed as Monument Historique in 1975^[8]

See also

• Communes of the Orne department

References