Germigny-l’Exempt (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɛʁmiɲi lɛɡzɑ̃]) is a commune in the central French department of Cher.

Germigny-l’Exempt
Commune
Location of Germigny-l’Exempt
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Coordinates: 46°55′08″N 2°53′57″E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Cher
Arrondissement	Saint-Amand-Montrond
Canton	La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Olivier Beatrix[1]
Area 1	28.26 km2 (10.91 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	296
• Density	10/km2 (27/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	18101 /18150
Elevation	180–227 m (591–745 ft) (avg. 200 m or 660 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

A farming area comprising the village and a couple of hamlets situated by the banks of the small Luisant river some 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Bourges at the junction of the D100, D15, D78 and the D43 roads.

Population

Sights

• The twelfth-century church of Notre-Dame. The twelfth-century church of Notre-Dame, with its exceptionally tall tower-porch was built after the siege of 1108 by Louis VI the Fat[3] as a symbol of the Capetian « Pax Dei ».[4] The inconographic program of its inner portal of 1215 is inherited from the North porch of the West portal of the abbey church in Saint-Gilles du Gard and the North porch of the West portal of the Laon Cathedral. The tympanum showing a Sedes Sapientiae is meant to celebrate the triumph of the Church (the Virgin being symbolic of the Church) upon the heretics whose common point is to reject the real presence in the eucharist.[5]
• The chateau of Château-Renaud, dating from the seventeenth century.

See also

• Communes of the Cher department

References

Bibliography

• Legeard, Emmanuel (2022). Germigny-l'Exempt ou les Trois Deniers de Gaspard [Germigny-l'Exempt or Gaspard's three coins] (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-14-027811-2.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Germigny-l'Exempt.

• Photographs of the commune (in French)
• Groupement de Sauvegarde de Notre-Dame de Germigny-l’Exempt on Facebook (in French)

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