Larchant
Larchant is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region.
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Coordinates: 48°17′06″N 2°35′51″E | |
Country | France |
Region | Île-de-France |
Department | Seine-et-Marne |
Arrondissement | Fontainebleau |
Canton | Nemours |
Government | |
• Mayor (2008–2014) | Vincent Mevel |
Area 1 | 29.24 km2 (11.29 sq mi) |
Population (2017-01-01)[1] | 696 |
• Density | 24/km2 (62/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 77244 /77760 |
Elevation | 62–141 m (203–463 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Demographics
The inhabitants are called Liricantois from the Latin name of the town, Liricantus.
Features
Larchant has a large, partly ruined church, built in several stages between the 12th and the 16th century, listed since 1846 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.[2] It has served as the center of the cult of Saint Mathurin.
A landscape oil painting by Balthus dating from 1939 is a panoramic view of the village centered on the basilica.[3]
In her 1980 novel The Boy Who Followed Ripley, Patricia Highsmith described the town. as a "quiet village" where "[t]he little private houses, all close together in cobble-stoned lanes, looked like illustrations from children's books, cottages almost too small for man and wife to live in".[4]
Larchant is renowned for its first-class boulder climbing sites, l'Éléphant[5] and la Dame Jouanne,[6] in the Forêt de la Commanderie that surrounds it.
References
- "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- Mérimée PA00087053, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) cathédrale Saint-Lizier actuellement église paroissiale
- Rewald, Sabine (1984). Balthus. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 96–7. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- Highsmith, Patricia (1980). The Boy who Followed Ripley. Lippincott & Crowell. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
- "Site d'escalade Fontainebleau (L'éléphant) - info, topo, localisation..." climbingaway.fr. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
- "Site d'escalade Fontainebleau (La Dame Jouanne) - info, topo, localisation..." climbingaway.fr. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Larchant. |
- Official site (in French)
- 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) (in English)
- French Ministry of Culture list for Larchant (in French)