Nohant-Vic

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Coordinates: 46°38′22″N 1°57′38″E / 46.6394444444, 1.96055555556

Administration
Commune of Nohant-Vic
Location

Country	France
Region	Centre
Department	Indre
Arrondissement	La Châtre
Canton	Canton of La Châtre
Statistics
Elevation	175 m–261 m (avg. 191 m)
Land area^¹	21.25 km²
Population^² (1999)	500
- Density	23/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	36143/ 36400
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.

Nohant-Vic is a commune in the Indre département of central France. It is located near La Châtre, on the D943, approximately 36 km south-east of Châteauroux and consists of two villages, Vic and Nohant, extended along the road.

1 Geography
2 Demography
3 Sites and monuments
4 Personalities with links to Nohant
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Geography

The commune lies on the lower Jurassic rocks at the southern margin of the Paris Basin. Just to the south of La Châtre, some twelve kilometres south of Vic, the Variscan-faulted rocks of the Massif Central begin with Cambrian/Ordovician migmatite.

It is near the southern end of the old province of Berry.

[edit] Demography

Population numbers by year
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
555	608	514	480	481	500
Population numbers since 1962 : without double counting

[edit] Sites and monuments

George Sand's house is a gentleman's residence of the late eighteenth century, built for the governor of Vierzon and acquired in 1793 by Madame Dupin de Francueil, grandmother of the writer. George Sand spent her childhood and adolescence there. Most of her writing was done at the house. She received some illustrious guests: Liszt and Marie d'Agoult, Balzac, Chopin and Flaubert. Delacroix had a studio there. The estate is today a property of the nation and run by the Centre des monuments nationaux (MONUM).

[edit] Personalities with links to Nohant

Marie-Aurore de Saxe Dupin de Francueil (1748–1821), daughter of the Maréchal de Saxe, who bought the Nohant estate in 1793.
Aurore Dupin, known as George Sand (1804–1876), granddaughter of the above, who spent most of her life at Nohant.
Frédéric Chopin (March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849) composed some of his greatest works in George Sand's estate in Nohant.