Country France Department Seine-et-Marne Population (2006) 734 Area 29.24 km² Arrondissement Fontainebleau | Region Île-de-France Canton La Chapelle-la-Reine Time zone CET (UTC+1) Local time Sunday 9:17 PM | |
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Weather 12°C, Wind N at 14 km/h, 87% Humidity | ||
Larchant is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region.
Contents
Map of 77760 Larchant, France
Demographics
Inhabitants are called Liricantois.
Features
Larchant has a cathedral that has served as the center of the cult of Saint Maturin.
A landscape oil painting by Balthus dating from 1939 is a panoramic view of the village centered on the basilica.
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".
References
Larchant Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA