Antignac, Cantal

Antignac
Antignac village
Antignac
Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region  Antignac
Coordinates: 45°20′35″N 2°32′46″E / 45.3431°N 2.5461°ECoordinates: 45°20′35″N 2°32′46″E / 45.3431°N 2.5461°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Cantal
Arrondissement	Mauriac
Canton	Saignes
Intercommunality	Sumène Artense
Government
• Mayor (2001–2020)	Stéphane Briant
Area^1	16.02 km^2 (6.19 sq mi)
Population (2009)^2	279
• Density	17/km^2 (45/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	15008 / 15240
Elevation	468–928 m (1,535–3,045 ft) (avg. 495 m or 1,624 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.

Antignac (Antinhac in Occitan) is a French commune in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region of south-central France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Antignacois or Antignacoises^[1]

Geography

Antignac lies in the valley of the Sumène some 80 km south-west of Clermont-Ferrand and 10 km north-west of Riom-ès-Montagnes^[2] in the Canton of Saignes. Access to the commune is by road D3 from Riom-ès-Montagnes in the south-east continuing west to join the D922.

Antignac is the main village in the commune which includes 25 other hamlets and localities:

• Le Beix
• Bellot
• La Bouboulie
• La Broconie
• Les Buges Blanches
• La Cavarache
• Le Cellier
• Le Chambon
• Le Châtelet
• La Croix de Soleilhadoux
• Drulh
• Fouillade
• Fourgoux
• La Ganette
• Lugue
• Masternat
• Saleix
• Salsignac
• Sauronnet
• La Seppe
• Tampagniergues
• Urlande
• La Valette
• Vignon
• Vignonnet

The river Rhue forms all of the commune's northern border.

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

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  Antignac village in spring

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  Antignac Town Hall and the War memorial

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  The main street facing east

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  The Place de l'Auberge and its fountain

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1798	1799	Jean-Baptiste Dubois
1799	1817	Jean-François Dubois
1817	1847	Louis Armand
1847	1848	Pierre Brun
1848	1864	Louis François Armand
1864	1881	Jean-Baptiste Tournadre
1881	1897	Paul-Antoine Mirande
1897	1919	Gabriel Félix Duc
1919	1942	Jean 'Eugène' Breton
1942	1953	Pierre Chanut
1953	1983	Roger Laboureix
1983	1990	Claude Favory
1990	1995	Charles Vayssier
1995	2001	Claude Chanet
2001	2020	Stéphane Briant

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 279 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
826	590	846	836	1,828	1,937	1,910	1,801	1,898

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
1,790	1,875	1,658	907	884	924	979	979	981

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
936	920	755	676	660	675	645	608	530

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	-
449	439	361	305	335	292	276	279	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has many buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• Farmhouses (18th-19th century)^[4] The Farmhouse at La Broconie contains Furniture which is registered as historical objects.^[5]

• Houses (16th-20th century)^[6]

• Houses and Farms (16th-20th century)^[7]
• A Farmhouse and Mill at le Soulou (19th century)^[8]
• The Grange du Pré de L'Oiseau Stables (19th century)^[9]
• The Wolf Trapping Pits at Urlande bas (19th century)^[10]
• The former School (1882)^[11] The School contains several religious items that are registered as historical objects.^[12]
• The Salsignac Railway Viaduct (20th century) on the stretch from Bort-les-Organs to Riom-ès-Montagnes on the Paris-Béziers railway line was commissioned on 2 December 1907 and closed in 1991. The viaduct is 190m long with 14 arches and is 24m high.^[13]
• The Barn-Stables at Le Beix (1878)^[14]

The Town Hall contains a War Memorial (1924) that is registered as an historical object.^[15]

Other sites of interest

• The Chateau of Longuevergne

Religious heritage

The commune has several religious buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Church of Saint-Étienne and Saint-Ferréol de Salsignac (12th century). Also called the Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours de Salsignac, this small Romanesque church was built in the 12th century and rebuilt in the Gothic style between 1469 and 1496. The bell located in a tiny bell tower dates from 1657.^[16][17] The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • The Furniture in the Church^[18]
  • A Processional Banner (20th century)^[19]
  • A Statue: Saint Louis (19th century)^[20]
  • A Statue: Saint Ferréol of Vienne (19th century)^[21]
  • A Statue: Virgin and child (19th century)^[22]
  • A Stoup (16th century)^[23]
  • A Tabernacle (17th century)^[24]
  • A Monumental Painting (19th century)^[25]
• The Parish church of Saint-Victor and Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens (12th century). The apse and the choir are the only parts dating from the 12th century, the nave and the chapels were rebuilt or upgraded in the 18th and 19th centuries.^[26][27] The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • The Furniture in the Chapel^[28]
  • A Chalice (18th century)^[29]
  • An Alb (20th century)^[30]
  • 2 Processional Banners (20th century)^[31]
  • The Saint-Pierre Bell (1472)^[32]
  • A Stoup (1753)^[33]
  • 2 Statues: Saints Peter and Paul (18th century)^[34]
  • 2 Statues: Adoring Angels (18th century)^[35]
  • Retables and Altar Paintings (18th century)^[36]
  • 2 Altar Paintings (19th century)^[37]
  • A Painting: Saint Peter delivered by an Angel (18th century)^[38]
  • A Monumental Painting (18th century)^[39]
  • A Statue: Saint Paul (17th century)^[40]
  • A Statue: Saint Peter (17th century)^[41]
• The Chapel of Notre-Dame du Roc-Vignonnet (ruins) (12th century). Begun in the early 12th century and completed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the chapel was finally abandoned in the 19th century.^[42][43] The Chapel contains some items that are registered as historical objects:
  • 14 Capitals and 13 Bases (11th century)^[44]
  • 33 Corbels (11th century)^[45]
• Monumental Crosses (19th-20th century)^[46]
• The Presbytery contains a Wardrobe (1807) that is registered as an historical object.^[47]

Environmental heritage

Two sites are registered as historical monuments:

• The Clairière médiévale des Roussilloux Park (Middle Ages)^[48]
• The Jardin Ethnobotanique Botanic Garden (20th century)^[49]

Antignac Picture Gallery

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  Antignac, Parish church of Saint-Victor

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  Salsignac, Chapel Saint-Ferréol, Notre-Dame-du-Bon-secours, dominated by the viaduct

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  Salsignac, Chapel Saint-Ferréol, Notre-Dame-du-Bon-secours, and the cemetery

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  Arched door of Notre-Dame-du-Bon-secours, Salsignac

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  Church of Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens, Antignac, stone staircase

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  Salsignac Viaduct overlooking the village, seen from the hamlet of Beix

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  Chapel Notre-Dame du Roc-Vignonnet

Notable people linked to the commune

• Jean Dutourd (born 14 January 1920 in Paris, where he died 17 January 2011), journalist and writer of the French Academy, author of the novel Au Bon Beurre, grandson of the House of Laurichesse at the Auberge de la Sumène d'Antignac. Became famous for his participation in the radio program Les grosses têtes (The big heads) presented by Philippe Bouvard.
• Jacques Jouve, born 10 March 1932 at Antignac. Communist MP for Haute-Vienne from 19 March 1978 to 22 May 1981.
• François-Paul Raynal (1902-1964), journalist at L'Auvergnat de Paris and writer, remained very attached to his roots and family home at Salsignac which he mentions in several of his novels and stories (Au fil de la Sumène, Les Artisans du village, Marie des Solitudes, etc.).
• François Aubert, mason, who decorated his house in a naive style (close to the ideal palace of Ferdinand Cheval) and created a mineralogical museum.

See also

• Communes of the Cantal department

External links

• Antignac on the National Geographic Institurte website (French)
• Antignac on Lion1906
• Antignac on Google Maps
• Antignac on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Antignac on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Antignac on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)

Notes and references

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

1. Inhabitants of Cantal (French)
2. Google Maps
3. List of Mayors of France
4. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000015 Farmhouse 1 at Urlande basIA15000016 Farmhouse 2 at Urlande basIA15000013 Farmhouse 1 at TampagnierguesIA15000020 Farmhouse 2 at TampagnierguesIA15000403 La Fouillarade Farmhouse at le CellierIA15000019 Farmhouse at DrulsIA15000017 Farmhouse at BellotIA15000010 Farmhouse at La BroconieIA15000007 FarmhouseIA15000004 Farmhouse at La Bouboulie (French)
5. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000039 Religious objects in the Farmhouse (French)
6. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000024 Merchant's House 1IA15000022 Merchant's House 2IA15000023 Merchant's House 3IA15000018 Artisan's House 1IA15000031 House at SauronnetIA15000027 House 4IA15000029 House/Farmhouse and ForgeIA15000021 House at la Valette (French)
7. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000033 Houses and Farms(French)
8. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000014 Farmhouse and Mill(French)
9. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000032 Grange du Pré de L'Oiseau Stables(French)
10. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000026 Wolf Trapping Pits at Urlande bas(French)
11. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000025 Former School(French)
12. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000036 Religious objects in the School (French)
13. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000011 Salsignac Railway Viaduct(French)
14. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000009 Barn-Stables(French)
15. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000015 War Memorial (French)
16. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00093442 Church of Saint-Ferréol de Salsignac (French)
17. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000005 Church of Saint-Étienne and Saint-Ferréol de Salsignac (French)
18. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000035 IM15000034 Furniture in the Church (French)
19. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000033 Processional Banner (French)
20. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000032 Statue: Saint Louis (French)
21. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000032 Statue: Saint Ferréol of Vienne (French)
22. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000030 Statue: Virgin and child (French)
23. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000029 Stoup (French)
24. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000028 Tabernacle (French)
25. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000012 Monumental Painting (French)
26. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00093441 Church of Saint-Victor and Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens (French)
27. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000006 Church of Saint-Victor and Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens (French)
28. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000027 IM15000026 Furniture in the Chapel (French)
29. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000025 Chalice (French)
30. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000024 Alb (French)
31. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000023 2 Processional Banners (French)
32. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000022 Saint-Pierre Bell (French)
33. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000021 Stoup (French)
34. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000020 2 Statues: Saints Peter and Paul (French)
35. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000019 2 Statues: Adoring Angels (French)
36. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000018 Retables and Altar Paintings (French)
37. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000017 2 Altar Paintings (French)
38. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000016 Painting: Saint Peter delivered by an Angel (French)
39. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000013 Monumental Painting (French)
40. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM15000050 Statue: Saint Paul (French)
41. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM15000049 Statue: Saint Peter (French)
42. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00093440 Chapel of Notre-Dame du Roc-Vignonnet (French)
43. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000012 Chapel du Roc-Vignonnet (French)
44. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000176 14 Capitals and 13 bases (French)
45. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000175 33 Corbels (French)
46. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000028 Monumental Crosses (French)
47. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM15000037 Wardrobe (French)
48. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000292 Clairière médiévale des Roussilloux Park (French)
49. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000266 Jardin Ethnobotanique Botanic Garden (French)