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Chavenon (French pronunciation: ​[ʃavnɔ̃]; Occitan: Chavanon) is a commune in the Allier department in Auvergne in central France.

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Chavenon
Commune
The church in Chavenon
Location of Chavenon
Chavenon Show map of France Chavenon Show map of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Coordinates: 46°24′53″N 2°56′50″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Allier
Arrondissement	Montluçon
Canton	Commentry
Intercommunality	Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	François Tarian[1]
Area 1	17.47 km2 (6.75 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	133
• Density	7.6/km2 (20/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	03070 /03440
Elevation	265–416 m (869–1,365 ft) (avg. 365 m or 1,198 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History

The former name is Ecclesia de Cavenone,[3] the name of a monastery which was destroyed in the French Revolution.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	302	—
1968	304	+0.7%
1975	235	−22.7%
1982	179	−23.8%
1990	155	−13.4%
1999	159	+2.6%
2008	145	−8.8%
2012	129	−11.0%

Transportation

• Gare de Chavenon

Government

The following table shows mayors of Chavenon.

Name	Start	End	Notes
Bernard Madet	2001	2008
Jean-Pierre Delsaux	2008	2014
François Tarian	2014	current

Sights

• Saint-Martin Church,[4] which is a 12th-century building

• Castle Montgeorges, which is a 16th-century building
• Manor of Saint Hubertus, which is a 19th-century mansion and now a Russian orthodox monastery with a park drawn by the landscape gardener François-Marie Treyve.

• Watermill of Veaux on the river Aumance (the last one on this French river). The Aumance is a tributary of the Cher. This mill is on the Cassini map.

• Manor of Sceauve, which is a former fief.

Personalities

Born in Chavenon:

• Cécile Desliens (1853–1937), painter
• Marie Desliens (1856–1938), painter

See also

• Auvergne (province), the historical independent county and later French province
• Auvergne (région), the modern-day administrative région, larger than the historical province of Auvergne, as it includes other provinces as Bourbonnais which historically were not part of Auvergne.
• Bourbonnais
• Portal:France
• Portal:European Union
• Communes of the Allier department

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chavenon.

• (in French) Official site
• (in English) Versailles national school of landscape architecture

На других языках

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- [en] Chavenon

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[ru] Шавнон

Шавно́н (фр. Chavenon) — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Овернь. Департамент коммуны — Алье. Входит в состав кантона Монмаро. Округ коммуны — Монлюсон.

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