Ménerbes

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Coordinates: 43°49′00″N 5°12′26″E / 43.8333333333, 5.20722222222

Commune of Ménerbes

Church of Ménerbes

Location
Ménerbes (France)
Ménerbes
Administration
Country France
Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department Vaucluse
Arrondissement Apt
Canton Bonnieux
Intercommunality Communauté de communes de Pied Rousset en Lubéron
Mayor Yves Rousset-Rouard
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 112 m–693 m
(avg. 244 m)
Land area¹ 30.27 km²
Population²
(1999)
995
 - Density 32/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 84073/ 84560
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.
France

Ménerbes is a commune of the Vaucluse département in southern France.

In the last decades Ménerbes became known in the English-speaking world especially through a series of books by British author Peter Mayle giving the chronicle of a British expatriate who settled in the village of Ménerbes. One of his books was made into a film A Good Year (2006) directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe, which was filmed nearby in the region.

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