Antignac, Cantal

Antignac
Antignac village
Antignac
Location within Auvergne region  Antignac
Coordinates: 45°20′35″N 2°32′46″E / 45.3431°N 2.5461°E / 45.3431; 2.5461Coordinates: 45°20′35″N 2°32′46″E / 45.3431°N 2.5461°E / 45.3431; 2.5461
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Cantal
Arrondissement	Mauriac
Canton	Saignes
Intercommunality	Sumène Artense
Government
• Mayor (2001–2020)	Stéphane Briant
Area1	16.02 km2 (6.19 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	279
• Density	17/km2 (45/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	15008 / 15240
Elevation	468–928 m (1,535–3,045 ft) (avg. 495 m or 1,624 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.

Antignac (Antinhac in Occitan) is a French commune in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region of south-central France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Antignacois or Antignacoises^[1]

Geography

Antignac lies in the valley of the Sumène some 80 km south-west of Clermont-Ferrand and 10 km north-west of Riom-ès-Montagnes^[2] in the Canton of Saignes. Access to the commune is by road D3 from Riom-ès-Montagnes in the south-east continuing west to join the D922.

Antignac is the main village in the commune which includes 25 other hamlets and localities:

The river Rhue forms all of the commune's northern border.

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

	Bort-les-Orgues	Champs-sur-Tarentaine-Marchal	Trémouille
			Saint-Étienne-de-Chomeil
		Antignac
	Vebret	Menet	Riom-ès-Montagnes

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  Antignac village in spring

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  Antignac Town Hall and the War memorial

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  The main street facing east

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  The Place de l'Auberge and its fountain

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 279 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has many buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• Farmhouses (18th-19th century)^[4] The Farmhouse at La Broconie contains Furniture which is registered as historical objects.^[5]

• Houses (16th-20th century)^[6]

• Houses and Farms (16th-20th century)^[7]
• A Farmhouse and Mill at le Soulou (19th century)^[8]
• The Grange du Pré de L'Oiseau Stables (19th century)^[9]
• The Wolf Trapping Pits at Urlande bas (19th century)^[10]
• The former School (1882)^[11] The School contains several religious items that are registered as historical objects.^[12]
• The Salsignac Railway Viaduct (20th century) on the stretch from Bort-les-Organs to Riom-ès-Montagnes on the Paris-Béziers railway line was commissioned on 2 December 1907 and closed in 1991. The viaduct is 190m long with 14 arches and is 24m high.^[13]
• The Barn-Stables at Le Beix (1878)^[14]

The Town Hall contains a War Memorial (1924) that is registered as an historical object.^[15]

Other sites of interest

• The Chateau of Longuevergne

Religious heritage

The commune has several religious buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Church of Saint-Étienne and Saint-Ferréol de Salsignac (12th century). Also called the Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours de Salsignac, this small Romanesque church was built in the 12th century and rebuilt in the Gothic style between 1469 and 1496. The bell located in a tiny bell tower dates from 1657.^[16][17] The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • The Furniture in the Church^[18]
  • A Processional Banner (20th century)^[19]
  • A Statue: Saint Louis (19th century)^[20]
  • A Statue: Saint Ferréol of Vienne (19th century)^[21]
  • A Statue: Virgin and child (19th century)^[22]
  • A Stoup (16th century)^[23]
  • A Tabernacle (17th century)^[24]
  • A Monumental Painting (19th century)^[25]
• The Parish church of Saint-Victor and Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens (12th century). The apse and the choir are the only parts dating from the 12th century, the nave and the chapels were rebuilt or upgraded in the 18th and 19th centuries.^[26][27] The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • The Furniture in the Chapel^[28]
  • A Chalice (18th century)^[29]
  • An Alb (20th century)^[30]
  • 2 Processional Banners (20th century)^[31]
  • The Saint-Pierre Bell (1472)^[32]
  • A Stoup (1753)^[33]
  • 2 Statues: Saints Peter and Paul (18th century)^[34]
  • 2 Statues: Adoring Angels (18th century)^[35]
  • Retables and Altar Paintings (18th century)^[36]
  • 2 Altar Paintings (19th century)^[37]
  • A Painting: Saint Peter delivered by an Angel (18th century)^[38]
  • A Monumental Painting (18th century)^[39]
  • A Statue: Saint Paul (17th century)^[40]
  • A Statue: Saint Peter (17th century)^[41]
• The Chapel of Notre-Dame du Roc-Vignonnet (ruins) (12th century). Begun in the early 12th century and completed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the chapel was finally abandoned in the 19th century.^[42][43] The Chapel contains some items that are registered as historical objects:
  • 14 Capitals and 13 Bases (11th century)^[44]
  • 33 Corbels (11th century)^[45]
• Monumental Crosses (19th-20th century)^[46]
• The Presbytery contains a Wardrobe (1807) that is registered as an historical object.^[47]

Environmental heritage

Two sites are registered as historical monuments:

• The Clairière médiévale des Roussilloux Park (Middle Ages)^[48]
• The Jardin Ethnobotanique Botanic Garden (20th century)^[49]

Antignac Picture Gallery

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  Antignac, Parish church of Saint-Victor

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  Salsignac, Chapel Saint-Ferréol, Notre-Dame-du-Bon-secours, dominated by the viaduct

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  Salsignac, Chapel Saint-Ferréol, Notre-Dame-du-Bon-secours, and the cemetery

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  Arched door of Notre-Dame-du-Bon-secours, Salsignac

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  Church of Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens, Antignac, stone staircase

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  Salsignac Viaduct overlooking the village, seen from the hamlet of Beix

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  Chapel Notre-Dame du Roc-Vignonnet

Notable people linked to the commune

• Jean Dutourd (born 14 January 1920 in Paris, where he died 17 January 2011), journalist and writer of the French Academy, author of the novel Au Bon Beurre, grandson of the House of Laurichesse at the Auberge de la Sumène d'Antignac. Became famous for his participation in the radio program Les grosses têtes (The big heads) presented by Philippe Bouvard.
• Jacques Jouve, born 10 March 1932 at Antignac. Communist MP for Haute-Vienne from 19 March 1978 to 22 May 1981.
• François-Paul Raynal (1902-1964), journalist at L'Auvergnat de Paris and writer, remained very attached to his roots and family home at Salsignac which he mentions in several of his novels and stories (Au fil de la Sumène, Les Artisans du village, Marie des Solitudes, etc.).
• François Aubert, mason, who decorated his house in a naive style (close to the ideal palace of Ferdinand Cheval) and created a mineralogical museum.

See also

• Communes of the Cantal department

External links

• Antignac on the National Geographic Institurte website (French)
• Antignac on Lion1906
• Antignac on Google Maps
• Antignac on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Antignac on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Antignac on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)

Notes and references

Notes

1. ↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

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