Condé-sur-Huisne (, literally ''Condé on Huisne'') is a former commune in the

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. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Sablons-sur-Huisne.

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Condé-sur-Huisne lies between the towns of Condeau to its east and Verrières to its west and Saint-Germain-des-Grois to its north and

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to its south. Condé-sur-Huisne has a large, high feudal mound where a square keep castle was built but destroyed in 1428 by the English during the Hundred Years' War. Only a half-buried, lower chapel dedicated to

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(12th century) remains.

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