Saint-Germain-de-Calberte

Saint-Germain-de-Calberte
Commune

The village of Saint-Germain-de-Calberte, seen from the west

Coat of arms
Saint-Germain-de-Calberte

Coordinates: 44°13′04″N 3°48′34″E / 44.2178°N 3.8094°E / 44.2178; 3.8094Coordinates: 44°13′04″N 3°48′34″E / 44.2178°N 3.8094°E / 44.2178; 3.8094
Country France
Region Occitanie
Department Lozère
Arrondissement Florac
Canton Le Collet-de-Dèze
Intercommunality Vallée Longue et du Calbertois en Cévennes
Government
 • Mayor (2001–2008) Jean-Louis Chapelle
Area1 38.60 km2 (14.90 sq mi)
Population (1999)2 485
 • Density 13/km2 (33/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 48155 /48370
Elevation 275–1,147 m (902–3,763 ft)
(avg. 500 m or 1,600 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.

Saint-Germain-de-Calberte is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.

The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson stayed at an inn in the village on the night of 1 October 1878, as recounted in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:

At a certain point, as I went downward, turning many acute angles, the moon disappeared behind the hill; and I pursued my way in great darkness, until another turning shot me without preparation into St. Germain de Calberte. The place was asleep and silent, and buried in opaque night. Only from a single open door, some lamplight escaped upon the road to show me I was come among men's habitations. The two last gossips of the evening, still talking by a garden wall, directed me to the inn. The landlady was getting her chicks to bed; the fire was already out, and had, not without grumbling, to be rekindled; half an hour later, and I must have gone supperless to roost.[1]

The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (GR 70), a popular long-distance path following Stevenson's approximate route, runs through the village.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Stevenson, Robert Louis (1905) [1879]. "Wikisource link to The Country of the Camisards". Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Wikisource. Wikisource page link 185.
  2. ↑ Castle, Alan (2007). "Stage 11 – Gare de Cassagnas to Saint-Germain-de-Calberte". The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (2nd ed.). Cicerone. pp. 164–170. ISBN 978-1-85284-511-7.
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