Le Crest

Le Crest

Le Crest
Location within Auvergne region Le Crest
Coordinates: 45°41′07″N 3°07′39″E / 45.685346°N 3.127384°E / 45.685346; 3.127384Coordinates: 45°41′07″N 3°07′39″E / 45.685346°N 3.127384°E / 45.685346; 3.127384
Country	France
Region	Auvergne
Department	Puy-de-Dôme
Arrondissement	Arrondissement of Clermont-Ferrand
Canton	Canton of Veyre-Monton
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes Les Cheires
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-François Carriot
Area¹	6.84 km² (2.64 sq mi)
Population (1999)²	1,128
• Density	160/km² (430/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	63126 / 63450
Elevation	366–653 m (1,201–2,142 ft) (avg. 608 m or 1,995 ft)
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.

Le Crest is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. Anton Docher, "The Padre of Isleta", was born in Le Crest in 1852.

In popular culture

Samuel Gance's novel, Anton ou la trajectoire d'un père, which tells the adventurous life of father Anton Docher, takes place largely in the village^[1] and describes the life of the wine growers of the 19th century.

The activities of the World War II resistance in Le Crest were the subject of the third series of the 1989 television drama Wish Me Luck.