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Le Bignon Mirabeau

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Loiret

Intercommunality
  
Quatre Vallées

Area
  
12.83 km²

Region
  
Centre-Val de Loire

Canton
  
Ferrières-en-Gâtinais

Population (2009)
  
267

Arrondissement
  
Montargis

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Le Bignon-Mirabeau is a commune in the Centre region of France.

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Map of Le Bignon-Mirabeau, France

Originally called simply Le Bignon, the small village is approximately 90 kilometres (56 mi) south of Paris, situated between the communes of Montargis to the south and Nemours to the north.

Comte de Mirabeau

The commune was the birthplace of one of the most celebrated figures of the French Revolution, the comte de Mirabeau. The future orator and statesman was born in the Chateau de Bignon on 4 April 1749.

After Mirabeau's death, the commune's original name was amended to Le Bignon-Mirabeau by a resolution of the Municipal Council on 1 November 1792. The name eventually passed out of favor but was officially and permanently restored in the 1880s. A bronze statue of Mirabeau was erected in the commune to commemorate the restoration of the name.

References

Le Bignon-Mirabeau Wikipedia