| Les Authieux-Papion | |
| Arrondissement: | Lisieux |
| Canton: | Mézidon Vallée d'Auge |
| Insee: | 14031 |
| Postal Code: | 14140 |
| Commune: | Mézidon Vallée d'Auge |
| Coordinates: | 49.0658°N 0.0539°W |
| Elevation M: | 59 |
| Elevation Min M: | 30 |
| Elevation Max M: | 79 |
| Area Km2: | 4.28 |
| Population: | 62 |
| Population Date: | 2019 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Les Authieux-Papion (in French pronounced as /le.z‿otjø papjɔ̃/) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mézidon Vallée d'Auge.[2]
Les Authieux-Papion is located some 14 km south-west of Lisieux and 11 km north-east of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives. The D47 road runs along the northern border of the commune from Mézidon-Canon in the west to join the D511 which runs down the eastern border of the commune from Saint-Julien-le-Faucon in the north-east to Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives in the south-west. Access to the village is by local roads off these two roads. There is a large forest towards the south (the Bois des Authieux) and another large forest in the north with the rest of the commune farmland.[3]
The Viette river flows through the centre of the commune from east to west as it flows west then north to join the Vie at Le Mesnil-Mauger.[3]
List of Successive Mayors[4]
In 2017 the commune had 63 inhabitants.
In the Parish Church of Saint-Philbert there is a Statue: Virgin and child (15th century) which is registered as an historical object.[5]