Country France Department Creuse Population (2008) 813 Area 27.33 km² Arrondissement Guéret | Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine Canton Le Grand-Bourg Time zone CET (UTC+1) Local time Wednesday 1:29 AM | |
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Weather 8°C, Wind E at 3 km/h, 77% Humidity | ||
Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac is a former commune in the Creuse department in central France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Fursac.
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Map of Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac, France
The Château de Chabannes was an orphanage in the village of Chabannes (part of today's Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac) in Vichy France where about 400 Jewish refugee children were saved from the Holocaust by the efforts of its director, Félix Chevrier and other teachers.
Geography
The river Semme forms part of the commune's northeastern border, flows west through the commune, then forms part of the commune's northwestern border.
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Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA