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The 2002 film To Be and to Have (Être et avoir) documents one year in the life of a one-teacher school in rural Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne. [citation needed] Chants d'Auvergne is a collection of folk songs from the Auvergne region arranged by Joseph Canteloube for soprano solo and orchestra in five series beginning in the ...
Gregory of Tours, who was born in Auvergne in 544 and was well versed in the history of that country, looks upon Austremonius as one of the seven envoys who, about 250, evangelized Gaul; he relates how the body of the saint was first interred at Issoire, being there the object of great veneration, before the body, though not the head, was ...
The Château de Chavaniac aka Chateau Lafayette [1] [2] [3] is a fortified manor house of eighteen rooms furnished in the Louis XIII style located in Chavaniac-Lafayette, Haute-Loire, in Auvergne province, France. Flanked by two towers of black stone, it was built in the 14th century and was the birthplace of General Lafayette in 1757.
Aigueperse (French pronunciation:; Auvergnat: Guiparsa) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France. [ 3 ] Population
Salers (French pronunciation:, Occitan: Salèrn) is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association. It is famous for the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) cheeses Cantal and Salers.
Sainte-Catherine (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t katʁin] ⓘ; Auvergnat: Senta Catarina) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. [ 3 ] See also
Aubrac (French pronunciation:) is a volcanic and granitic plateau located in the south-central Massif Central of France. This region has been a member of the Natura 2000 network since August 2006. It straddles three départements ( Cantal , Aveyron and Lozère ) and three régions ( Auvergne , Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon ).
Averoigne is a fictional counterpart of a historical province in France, detailed in a series of short stories by the American writer Clark Ashton Smith. Smith may have based Averoigne on the actual province of Auvergne , [ 1 ] but its name was probably influenced by the French department of Aveyron , immediately south of Auvergne, due to the ...