Cassagnas

Cassagnas is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.

Cassagnas
Commune
The town hall of Cassagnas
Location of Cassagnas
Cassagnas Show map of France Cassagnas Show map of Occitanie
Coordinates: 44°16′19″N 3°44′50″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Lozère
Arrondissement	Florac
Canton	Le Collet-de-Dèze
Intercommunality	Tarnon-Mimente
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean Wilkin[1]
Area ^1	35.19 km^2 (13.59 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[2]	123
• Density	3.5/km^2 (9.1/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	48036 /48400
Elevation	667–1,398 m (2,188–4,587 ft) (avg. 770 m or 2,530 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The village of Cassagnas lies in the valley of the River Mimente, and on the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (GR 70), a popular long-distance path following approximately the route travelled by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1878 and described in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.[3] Stevenson mentions the village by name:

I was now drawing near to Cassagnas, a cluster of black roofs upon the hillside, in this wild valley, among chestnut gardens, and looked upon in the clear air by many rocky peaks. The road along the Mimente is yet new, nor have the mountaineers recovered their surprise when the first cart arrived at Cassagnas.[4]

See also

• Communes of the Lozère department

References

1. Site du conseil général de la Lozère Archived 2008-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
3. Castle, Alan (2007). "Stage 10 – Florac to the Gare de Cassagnas". The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (2nd ed.). Cicerone. pp. 154–163. ISBN 978-1-85284-511-7.
4. Stevenson, Robert Louis (1905) [1879]. "The Country of the Camisards" . Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 173  – via Wikisource.

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