Pontécoulant
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Pontécoulant ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Launay and Pontécoulant.<ref name="gmap">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Commune along with another nine communes shares part of a 5,729 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Bassin de la Druance.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The communes single watercourse is the River, La Druance.<ref name=sandre2>Template:Sandre</ref>
The commune is completely enclosed within the commune of Condé-en-Normandie.<ref name="gmap"/>
Population
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Points of Interest
National heritage sites
- Château à Pontécoulant is a seventeenth century Chateau that is open to the public to visit, after its owners in 1908 left it to the department.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Notable people
- Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1764 – 1853) a French politician, was count of Pontécoulant.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant - (1795–1874) a French astronomer, count of Pontécoulant and died here.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1794 – 1882) a French soldier and musicologist was count of Pontécoulant.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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