Pontécoulant () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
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, Launay and Pontécoulant.
The Commune along with another nine communes shares part of a 5,729 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Bassin de la Druance.
The communes single watercourse is the River, La Druance.
The commune is completely enclosed within the commune of Condé-en-Normandie.
Population
Points of Interest
National heritage sites Château à Pontécoulant is a seventeenth century Chateau that is a Museum of France, after its owners in 1908 left it to the department. The chateau was listed as a Monument historique in 1927.
Notable people Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1764 – 1853) a French politician, was count of Pontécoulant. Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant - (1795–1874) a French astronomer, count of Pontécoulant and died here. Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1794 – 1882) a French soldier and musicologist was count of Pontécoulant.
See also Communes of the Calvados department
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