The Couesnon is a river running from the département of Mayenne in north-western France, forming an estuary at Mont Saint-Michel. It is 97.8 km long, and its drainage basin is 1,124 km. Its final stretch forms the border between the historical duchies of Normandy and Brittany. Its historically irregular course, shifting between two beds to the north an…The Couesnon is a river running from the département of Mayenne in north-western France, forming an estuary at Mont Saint-Michel. It is 97.8 km long, and its drainage basin is 1,124 km. Its final stretch forms the border between the historical duchies of Normandy and Brittany. Its historically irregular course, shifting between two beds to the north and south of Mont Saint-Michel until eventually settling on the southern one, inspired the saying Le Couesnon en sa folie mit le Mont en Normandie as the Mont is just to the Norman side of the river’s current mouth. However, the modern administrative boundary separating the two regions does not follow the river course; it is some six kilometers west of the Mont.
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