Fontenai-les-Louvets
Location of Fontenai-les-Louvets
Fontenai-les-Louvets is located in France
Fontenai-les-Louvets
Fontenai-les-Louvets
Fontenai-les-Louvets is located in Normandy
Fontenai-les-Louvets
Fontenai-les-Louvets
Coordinates: 48°31′41″N 0°00′02″W / 48.5281°N 0.000556°W / 48.5281; -0.000556
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentOrne
ArrondissementAlençon
CantonMagny-le-Désert
CommuneL'Orée-d'Écouves
Area
1
18.77 km2 (7.25 sq mi)
Population
 (2019)[1]
275
  Density15/km2 (38/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
61420
Elevation257–413 m (843–1,355 ft)
(avg. 304 m or 997 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Fontenai-les-Louvets (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tnɛ le luvɛ] ) is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune L'Orée-d'Écouves.[2] It is located in the Forêt d'Écouves in Normandy.

Notable buildings and places

National heritage sites

  • Markers of Forêt d'Écouves a set of 80 markers positioned in the 18th century that mark the boundaries of the forest, they were registered as a Monument historique in 1987.[3]

See also

References

  1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
  2. Arrêté préfectoral 10 July 2018 (in French)
  3. "80 bornes de la forêt d'Ecouves (également sur communes de Le Bouillon, La Chapelle-près-Sées, La Ferrière-Béchet, Fontenai-les-Louvets, La Lande-de-Goult, Radon, Rouperroux, Saint-Didier-sous-Ecouves, Saint-Gervais-du-Perron, Tanville et Vingt-Hanap..." monumentum.fr.



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