Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac
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Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac | |
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Part of Fursac | |
 The church in Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac | |
Location of Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac  | |
  Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac  Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac | |
| Coordinates: 46°08′56″N 1°30′47″E / 46.1489°N 1.5131°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Creuse |
| Arrondissement | Guéret |
| Canton | Le Grand-Bourg |
| Commune | Fursac |
| Area 1 | 27.33 km2 (10.55 sq mi) |
| Population (2018)[1] | 748 |
| • Density | 27/km2 (71/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 23290 |
| Elevation | 315–431 m (1,033–1,414 ft) (avg. 340 m or 1,120 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ də fyʁsak]; Limousin: Furçac (Sent Peir)) is a former commune in the Creuse department in central France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Fursac.[2]
The Château de Chabannes was an orphanage in the village of Chabannes (part of today's Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac) in Vichy France where about 400 Jewish refugee children were saved from the Holocaust by the efforts of its director, Félix Chevrier and other teachers.
Geography
[edit]The river Semme forms part of the commune's northeastern border, flows west through the commune, then forms part of the commune's northwestern border.
Population
[edit]| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1962 | 980 | — |
| 1968 | 1,019 | +4.0% |
| 1975 | 872 | −14.4% |
| 1982 | 887 | +1.7% |
| 1990 | 805 | −9.2% |
| 1999 | 787 | −2.2% |
| 2008 | 813 | +3.3% |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2018, INSEE
- ^ Arrêté préfectoral 29 September 2016 (in French)
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