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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 ...
His veneration was highly localized, but at Clermont he was moved back in time, to the 1st century AD, along with others of the Apostles to Gaul, such as Saint Martial, to become one of the "seventy-two Disciples of Christ", and was claimed to have been a converted Jew who came with St. Peter from Palestine to Rome and subsequently became the Apostle of Auvergne, as well as of Berry and Nivernais.
The traditional arms of Aurillac. The three silver shells were originally on one line because Aurillac was a stage on the Way of St. James coming from Clermont-Ferrand (currently the Via Arvernha). The three fleurs-de-lis gold indicated a Good Town at a time when Aurillac provided a body of two hundred picked men to King Charles VII to fight ...
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Aigueperse ( French pronunciation: [ɛɡpɛʁs] ; Auvergnat : Guiparsa ) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France .
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Sainte-Catherine ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t katʁin] ⓘ ; Auvergnat : Senta Catarina ) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France .
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.
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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 ...