Bourbon-l'Archambault is a spa town and a commune in the Allier department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in central France. It is the place of origin of the House of Bourbon.

This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Bourbon-l'Archambault]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|fr|Bourbon-l'Archambault}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Bourbon-l'Archambault
Commune
The chateau in Bourbon-l'Archambault
Coat of arms
Location of Bourbon-l'Archambault
Bourbon-l'Archambault Show map of France Bourbon-l'Archambault Show map of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Coordinates: 46°35′03″N 3°03′26″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Allier
Arrondissement	Moulins
Canton	Bourbon-l'Archambault
Intercommunality	Bocage Bourbonnais
Government
• Mayor (2021–2026)	Ludovic Chaput[1][2]
Area 1	54.84 km2 (21.17 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[3]	2,572
• Density	47/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	03036 /03160
Elevation	215–321 m (705–1,053 ft) (avg. 260 m or 850 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Personalities

In 1681, Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Tours - the third daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress Françoise-Athénaise, Madame de Montespan - died there at the age of six. On 26 May 1707, Madame de Montespan herself also died at the chateau.

The town was Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's favorite vacation spot.[5]

In 1915, mathematician André Lichnerowicz was born here (died 1998).

See also

• Communes of the Allier department
• Bourbonnais
• Borvo
• House of Bourbon

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bourbon-l'Archambault.

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Bourbon l'Archambault".

• Town hall website (in French)
• Tourist office website (in French)
• Romanesque art at Bourbon-l'Archambault
• Spa information (in French)

This Allier geographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

На других языках

[de] Bourbon-l’Archambault

[ru] Бурбон-л’Аршамбо