Ambazac

Administration
Commune of Ambazac
Location

Country	France
Region	Limousin
Department	Haute-Vienne
Arrondissement	Limoges
Canton	Ambazac (chief town)
Intercommunality	CC Monts d'Ambazac et du Val du Taurion
Mayor	Élisabeth Maciejowski (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	243–666 m
Land area^¹	57.83 km²
Population^² (1999)	4,836
- Density	84/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	87002/ 87240
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Ambazac (Occitan: Embasac) is a town and commune in the Haute-Vienne département of central-western France.

[edit] Demographics

At the 1999 census, the population was 4,836. On 1 January 2005, the estimate was 5,132.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, said Molière, comedian et author (1622-1673), in Ambazac he is said to have had the idea of writing Monsieur de Pourceaugnac;
Maurice Boitel, (1919-2007), painter artist, he painted in Ambazac between 1947 et 1996;
Albert Besson (1896-1965), medic et hygienist, member of the Académie de Médecine : in Ambazac he wrote L'Hygiène de l'habitation;
Charles Gounod (1818-1893), composer: he wrote Faust in the castle of Montmerry;
Raymond de Sèze (1748-1828), barrister & member of the Académie française ;
Canon Landon, épigraphist & latinist, priest of Ambazac;
Catherine Cesarsky, astrophysician, International astronomical Union (IAU) chairman from 2006, born in Ambazac in 1943.