Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac

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Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac is a village and commune in the Creuse département of central France.

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 efforts of its director, Félix Chevrier and other teachers.

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Coordinates: 46°09′N 1°31′E / 46.15, 1.517