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| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne |
| Department | Puy-de-Dôme |
| Arrondissement | Clermont-Ferrand |
| Canton | Chamalières |
| Intercommunality | Clermont |
| Mayor | Louis Giscard d'Estaing (2005–2008) |
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| Elevation | 385–582 m (1,263–1,909 ft) (avg. 415 m/1,362 ft) |
| Land area1 | 3.77 km2 (1.46 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 18,300 (2006) |
| - Density | 4,854 /km2 (12,570 /sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 63075/ 63400 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Chamalières is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.
Chamalières is the third-largest town in the department and lies about 150 miles (241 km) from Lyon.
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Several thousand wooden Gallo-Roman ex-votos, most of them anthropomorphic standing figures, also including images of limbs and internal organs, dated by associated coins to the first century, were recovered from the shrine at the mineral springs known as the Source des Roches ("Rock Spring"). An inscribed lead tablet found at the spring is a major source of information on the Gaulish language. A comparable cache of Gaulish ex-voto were recovered from a sanctuary at the sources of the Seine, sacred to Sequana.[1]