Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon

Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon

The ruins of the château in Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon
Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon

Coordinates: 44°18′01″N 3°39′59″E / 44.3003°N 3.6664°E / 44.3003; 3.6664Coordinates: 44°18′01″N 3°39′59″E / 44.3003°N 3.6664°E / 44.3003; 3.6664
Country France
Region Occitanie
Department Lozère
Arrondissement Florac
Canton Le Collet-de-Dèze
Intercommunality Tarnon-Mimente
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Henri Couderc
Area1 20.72 km2 (8.00 sq mi)
Population (1999)2 134
 • Density 6.5/km2 (17/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 48162 /48400
Elevation 580–1,421 m (1,903–4,662 ft)
(avg. 610 m or 2,000 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-Julien-d'Arpaon is a former commune in the Lozère department in southern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Cans-et-Cévennes.[1]

Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon stands at a crossing of the River Mimente on the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (GR 70), a popular long-distance path following approximately the route travelled by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1878 and described in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.[2] Stevenson mentions the village and its ruined chateau in passing, though not by name:

...the road passed hard by two black hamlets, one with an old castle atop to please the heart of the tourist.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Arrêté préfectoral 2-14 December 2015
  2. ↑ Castle, Alan (2007). The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (2nd ed.). Cicerone. pp. 129–127. ISBN 978-1-85284-511-7.
  3. ↑ 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 165.
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