Larchant

Larchant is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region.

Larchant
Commune
The basilica of Saint Mathurin
Location of Larchant
Larchant
Larchant
Coordinates: 48°17′06″N 2°35′51″E
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-et-Marne
ArrondissementFontainebleau
CantonNemours
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Vincent Mevel
Area
1
29.24 km2 (11.29 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
696
 • Density24/km2 (62/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
77244 /77760
Elevation62–141 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.

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Mérimée PA00087053, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) cathédrale Saint-Lizier actuellement église paroissiale
  3. Rewald, Sabine (1984). Balthus. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 96–7. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  4. Highsmith, Patricia (1980). The Boy who Followed Ripley. Lippincott & Crowell. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  5. "Site d'escalade Fontainebleau (L'éléphant) - info, topo, localisation..." climbingaway.fr. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  6. "Site d'escalade Fontainebleau (La Dame Jouanne) - info, topo, localisation..." climbingaway.fr. Retrieved 2019-07-01.


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