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| Coordinates: 45°46′28″N 3°04′04″E / 45.7744°N 3.0678°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Puy-de-Dôme |
| Arrondissement | Clermont-Ferrand |
| Canton | Chamalières |
| Intercommunality | Clermont Auvergne Métropole |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Louis Giscard d'Estaing |
| Area 1 | 3.77 km2 (1.46 sq mi) |
| Population (Jan. 2017)[1] | 17,173 |
| • Density | 4,600/km2 (12,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 63075 /63400 |
| Elevation | 385–582 m (1,263–1,909 ft) (avg. 415 m or 1,362 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Chamalières (French pronunciation: [ʃamaljɛʁ]; Auvergnat: Chamalèira) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France.
Chamalières is the third-largest town in the department and lies about 150 miles (241 km) from Lyon.
History
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.[2]
Notable places
Chamalières is the place where the Banque de France located its printing works in 1923, which printed former French franc banknotes, and now prints Euro banknotes.
People
- Raoul Lufbery (1885–1918), French-American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War I.
- Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928–2012), French film director.
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926-2020), former President of the French Republic (1974-1981), former mayor of Chamalières (1967-1974).
- Claude Giraud (born 1936), French stage and film actor; voice over actor for Robert Redford, Tommy Lee Jones, Alain Rickman.
- Renaud Camus (born 1946), French author and essayist.
- Daniel Vernet (c. 1945-2018), former editor-in-chief of Le Monde.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Romeuf, A.-M. (1986). "Exvoto en bois de Chamalières (Puy-de-Dôme) et des sources de la Seine: essai de comparaison". Gallia (in French). 44: 65–89.
- ^ Frachon, Alain (17 February 2018). "La mort de Daniel Vernet, grande figure du " Monde "". Le Monde. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
Further reading
- Romeuf, Anne-Marie; Dumontet, Monique (1980). Les ex-voto gallo-romains de la source des roches à Chamalières (Puy-de-Dôme) (in French). Clermont-Ferrand - Bargoin Museum. ISBN 978-2-7351-0640-0.
External links
- Official website (in French)
- ex-votos from the Source des Roches on display at the Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand.