Antignac, Cantal

Antignac
Antignac village Antignac village
Antignac
Location within Auvergne region Antignac
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Cantal
Arrondissement	Mauriac
Canton	Saignes
Intercommunality	Sumène Artense
Government
• Mayor (2001–2020)	Stéphane Briant
Area1	16.02 km2 (6.19 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	279
• Density	17/km2 (45/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	15008 / 15240
Elevation	468–928 m (1,535–3,045 ft) (avg. 495 m or 1,624 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Antignac (Antinhac in Occitan) is a French commune in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region of south-central France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Antignacois or Antignacoises

Geography

Antignac lies in the valley of the Sumène some 80 km south-west of Clermont-Ferrand and 10 km north-west of Riom-ès-Montagnes in the Canton of Saignes. Access to the commune is by road D3 from Riom-ès-Montagnes in the south-east continuing west to join the D922.

Antignac is the main village in the commune which includes 25 other hamlets and localities:

• Le Beix
• Bellot
• La Bouboulie
• La Broconie
• Les Buges Blanches
• La Cavarache
• Le Cellier
• Le Chambon
• Le Châtelet
• La Croix de Soleilhadoux
• Drulh
• Fouillade
• Fourgoux
• La Ganette
• Lugue
• Masternat
• Saleix
• Salsignac
• Sauronnet
• La Seppe
• Tampagniergues
• Urlande
• La Valette
• Vignon
• Vignonnet

The river Rhue forms all of the commune's northern border.

Neighbouring communes and villages

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  Antignac village in spring

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  Antignac Town Hall and the War memorial

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  The main street facing east

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  The Place de l'Auberge and its fountain

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1798	1799	Jean-Baptiste Dubois
1799	1817	Jean-François Dubois
1817	1847	Louis Armand
1847	1848	Pierre Brun
1848	1864	Louis François Armand
1864	1881	Jean-Baptiste Tournadre
1881	1897	Paul-Antoine Mirande
1897	1919	Gabriel Félix Duc
1919	1942	Jean 'Eugène' Breton
1942	1953	Pierre Chanut
1953	1983	Roger Laboureix
1983	1990	Claude Favory
1990	1995	Charles Vayssier
1995	2001	Claude Chanet
2001	2020	Stéphane Briant

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 279 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
826	590	846	836	1,828	1,937	1,910	1,801	1,898

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
1,790	1,875	1,658	907	884	924	979	979	981

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
936	920	755	676	660	675	645	608	530

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	-
449	439	361	305	335	292	276	279	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

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Population of Antignac

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has many buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• Farmhouses (18th-19th century) The Farmhouse at La Broconie contains Furniture which is registered as historical objects.

• Houses (16th-20th century)

• Houses and Farms (16th-20th century)
• A Farmhouse and Mill at le Soulou (19th century)
• The Grange du Pré de L'Oiseau Stables (19th century)
• The Wolf Trapping Pits at Urlande bas (19th century)
• The former School (1882) The School contains several religious items that are registered as historical objects.
• The Salsignac Railway Viaduct (20th century) on the stretch from Bort-les-Organs to Riom-ès-Montagnes on the Paris-Béziers railway line was commissioned on 2 December 1907 and closed in 1991. The viaduct is 190m long with 14 arches and is 24m high.
• The Barn-Stables at Le Beix (1878)

The Town Hall contains a War Memorial (1924) that is registered as an historical object.

Other sites of interest

• The Chateau of Longuevergne

Religious heritage

The commune has several religious buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Church of Saint-Étienne and Saint-Ferréol de Salsignac (12th century). Also called the Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours de Salsignac, this small Romanesque church was built in the 12th century and rebuilt in the Gothic style between 1469 and 1496. The bell located in a tiny bell tower dates from 1657. The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • The Furniture in the Church
  • A Processional Banner (20th century)
  • A Statue: Saint Louis (19th century)
  • A Statue: Saint Ferréol of Vienne (19th century)
  • A Statue: Virgin and child (19th century)
  • A Stoup (16th century)
  • A Tabernacle (17th century)
  • A Monumental Painting (19th century)
• The Parish church of Saint-Victor and Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens (12th century). The apse and the choir are the only parts dating from the 12th century, the nave and the chapels were rebuilt or upgraded in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • The Furniture in the Chapel
  • A Chalice (18th century)
  • An Alb (20th century)
  • 2 Processional Banners (20th century)
  • The Saint-Pierre Bell (1472)
  • A Stoup (1753)
  • 2 Statues: Saints Peter and Paul (18th century)
  • 2 Statues: Adoring Angels (18th century)
  • Retables and Altar Paintings (18th century)
  • 2 Altar Paintings (19th century)
  • A Painting: Saint Peter delivered by an Angel (18th century)
  • A Monumental Painting (18th century)
  • A Statue: Saint Paul (17th century)
  • A Statue: Saint Peter (17th century)
• The Chapel of Notre-Dame du Roc-Vignonnet (ruins) (12th century). Begun in the early 12th century and completed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the chapel was finally abandoned in the 19th century. The Chapel contains some items that are registered as historical objects:
  • 14 Capitals and 13 Bases (11th century)
  • 33 Corbels (11th century)
• Monumental Crosses (19th-20th century)
• The Presbytery contains a Wardrobe (1807) that is registered as an historical object.

Environmental heritage

Two sites are registered as historical monuments:

• The Clairière médiévale des Roussilloux Park (Middle Ages)
• The Jardin Ethnobotanique Botanic Garden (20th century)

Antignac Picture Gallery

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  Antignac, Parish church of Saint-Victor

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  Salsignac, Chapel Saint-Ferréol, Notre-Dame-du-Bon-secours, dominated by the viaduct

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  Salsignac, Chapel Saint-Ferréol, Notre-Dame-du-Bon-secours, and the cemetery

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  Arched door of Notre-Dame-du-Bon-secours, Salsignac

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  Church of Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens, Antignac, stone staircase

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  Salsignac Viaduct overlooking the village, seen from the hamlet of Beix

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  Chapel Notre-Dame du Roc-Vignonnet

Notable people linked to the commune

• Jean Dutourd (born 14 January 1920 in Paris, where he died 17 January 2011), journalist and writer of the French Academy, author of the novel Au Bon Beurre, grandson of the House of Laurichesse at the Auberge de la Sumène d'Antignac. Became famous for his participation in the radio program Les grosses têtes (The big heads) presented by Philippe Bouvard.
• Jacques Jouve, born 10 March 1932 at Antignac. Communist MP for Haute-Vienne from 19 March 1978 to 22 May 1981.
• François-Paul Raynal (1902-1964), journalist at L'Auvergnat de Paris and writer, remained very attached to his roots and family home at Salsignac which he mentions in several of his novels and stories (Au fil de la Sumène, Les Artisans du village, Marie des Solitudes, etc.).
• François Aubert, mason, who decorated his house in a naive style (close to the ideal palace of Ferdinand Cheval) and created a mineralogical museum.

See also

• Communes of the Cantal department

External links

• Antignac on the National Geographic Institurte website (French)
• Antignac on Lion1906
• Antignac on Google Maps
• Antignac on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Antignac on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Antignac on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)