[6] In 1574 it was occupied by the Protestant leader Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, who after a stubborn siege was forced to yield it to Jacques Goyon, Count of Matignon.

[5] It has been subjected to floods when the river Varenne burst its banks, causing widespread havoc and damage to many of the buildings and houses that lay in its path.

Guillaume d'Alençon's cruelties led his subjects to surrender Alençon and Domfront to Geoffroy Martel, Count of Anjou.

In 1092, Henri I Beauclerc erected a fortified stone castle on the rocky spur, complete with a powerful quadrangular keep and the Saint-Symphorien chapel, a priory of the Lonlay abbey.

Modern era In 1574, the Norman Huguenot leader Gabriel I de Montgommery, who had taken refuge in Domfront after fleeing Saint-Lô , surrendered during the siege of the town after the arrival of the royal artillery.

Between the wars On September 10, 1926, following the Poincaré decree, Domfront lost its sub-prefecture and the cantons were divided between the arrondissements of Alençon and Argentan.

World war II In September 1939, the people of Domfront wept as they watched the 3rd Battalion of the 130th RI march down to the station.

During the Occupation, Domfront was home to three permanent German units: the gendarmerie, which represented the German occupation administration and carried out requisitions; the railway station, which was commanded by a company of engineers who controlled the railroads; and the Laharpe barracks, where a unit of Territoriaux guarded the Senegalese infantrymen held there as prisoners of war.

Domfront, located between the Andaine forest ammunition depot and Mortain, where the great German counter-attack took place, and especially the station district (now called Notre-Dame), were subjected to numerous Allied air attacks.

A total of thirty-six civilians (not all of whom were Domfront residents - the figure is uncertain) were killed in the twenty-four air attacks, mainly on the railway station.

After the German defeat in front of Mortain, the remaining armored units withdrew to Falaise, and only low-combat troops held Domfront.

It passed through Saint-Gilles-des-Marais and La Haute-Chapelle, where it captured a German company on the Sainte-Anne knoll (hill 210 on staff maps), then crossed the mined Caen bridge on foot.

It captured an artillery piece at the Balères farm, then passed through the Pissot and entered Domfront from the north, by the staircase just behind the town hall.

Standing on a promontory, the town boasts a rich heritage of medieval half-timbered houses, old 17th and 18th century hotels and narrow streets.