Rollot

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Coordinates: 49°35′23″N 2°39′16″E / 49.5897222222, 2.65444444444

Commune of Rollot

Location

Administration

Communauté de communes du canton de Montdidier

Mayor

M. Pierre Levier
(1995-2008)

Statistics

Elevation

82 m–126 m
(avg. 100 m)

Land area^¹

12,00 km²

Population^²
(2004)

666

- Density

55,5/km²

Miscellaneous

INSEE/Postal code

80678/ 80500

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.

Rollot is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Population
4 Places of interest
5 People linked with the commune
6 See also
7 External links
8 Notes

[edit] Geography

Situated 25 miles southeast of Amiens, on the D935 road. It is the most southerly commune in the departement, just a few hundred yards from the departement of Oise.

[edit] History

Rollot is well-known throughout France, thanks in part to the locally-made cheese of the same name, since the 18th century.

[edit] Population

Population Evolution
1926	1931	1936	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2004
626	651	607	648	590	584	607	561	540	575	631	666
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting

[edit] Places of interest

Saint Nicolas’ church
Saint Germain’s church
Statue of Antoine Galland
Feudal motte with a 12th century cave (private property)
War memorial

[edit] People linked with the commune

Antoine Galland

Antoine Galland, born in 1646 at Rollot. Famous orientalist and archaeologist, best remembered as the first European translator of The Thousand and One Nights.