DOMFRONT, a town of north-western France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Orne, 43 m. W.N.W. of Alencon by rail. Pop. (193I) 2,290. The town, situated on a bluff overlooking the Varenne, has a church, Notre-Dame-sur l'Eau, dating from the IIth century. Domfront is said to have grown up in the 6th century round the oratory of the hermit St. Front, and played an important part in the wars against the English and the religious wars. In 1574 it was occupied by the Protestant leader Gabriel de Montgomery, who after a stubborn siege was forced to yield it to Jacques Goyon, count of Matignon. In the middle ages it was one of the chief strongholds in Nor mandy, and there still remain several towers of its ramparts, and ruins of the keep of its castle built in 1o11, rebuilt in the I2th century by Henry II., king of England, and dismantled at the end of the 16th century. The town is the seat of a sub-prefect, and has a tribunal of first instance. There are quarries in the vicinity.