Pontécoulant

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Commune in Normandy, France

Pontécoulant
Commune
Chateau
Location of Pontécoulant
(2023–2026)		Gislaine Marie^[1]
Area ¹	2.38 km² (0.92 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	70
• Density	29/km² (76/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14512 /14110
Elevation	98–245 m (322–804 ft) (avg. 64 m or 210 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Pontécoulant (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃tekulɑ̃] ^ⓘ) 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.^[3]

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Launay and Pontécoulant.^[4]

The communes single watercourse is the River, La Druance.^[5]

The commune is completely enclosed within the commune of Condé-en-Normandie.^[4]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	108	—
1968	125	+15.7%
1975	109	−12.8%
1982	106	−2.8%
1990	105	−0.9%
1999	108	+2.9%
2008	93	−13.9%

Points of Interest

National heritage sites

Château à Pontécoulant is a seventeenth centaury Chateau that is open to the public to visit, after its owners in 1908 left it to the department.^[6] The chateau was listed as a Monument historique in 1927.^[7]

Notable People

Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1764 – 1853) a French politician, was count of Pontécoulant.^[8]
Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant - (1795–1874) a French astronomer, count of Pontécoulant and died here.^[9]
Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1794 – 1882) a French soldier and musicologist was count of Pontécoulant.^[10]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 6 June 2023.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ "Map of Suiss Normande" (PDF).
^ ^a ^b "Pontécoulant · 14110, France". Pontécoulant · 14110, France.
^ Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau - la Druance (I24-0420)".
^ "Près de Condé-en-Normandie, découvrez l'histoire du château de Pontécoulant". actu.fr. 19 August 2023.
^ "Château à Pontécoulant - PA00111618 - Monumentum". monumentum.fr.
^ "Peers Removed from the Chamber on 24 July 1815 by King Louis XVIII". www.napoleon-series.org.
^ Pontécoulant, Gustave de (1795-1874). "Papiers de Gustave Le Doulcet (1795-1874), comte de Pontécoulant". CALAMES et Wikipedia.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "CTHS - PONTÉCOULANT Adolphe Le Doulcet de, Louis Adolphe". cths.fr.