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Country
  
France

Department
  
Creuse

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Population
  
801 (1999)

Arrondissement
  
Guéret

Region
  
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Canton
  
Pontarion

Area
  
41.11 km²

Local time
  
Wednesday 7:07 PM

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Intercommunality
  
Pays Creuse-Thaurion-Gartempe

Weather
  
8°C, Wind S at 10 km/h, 62% Humidity

Sardent is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.

Contents

Map of 23250 Sardent, France

Geography

An area of streams, lakes, forestry and farming, comprising the village and several hamlets situated in the valley of the Gartempe River, some 10 miles (16 km) south of Guéret, where the D60 and the D50 roads join the D940.

Sights

  • The church, dating from the eleventh century.
  • Megaliths known as "Les Pierres Boutelines".
  • A nineteenth-century chapel at the hamlet of Saint-Pardoux.
  • A statue of the "marmot de la Feyte", at La Feyte.
  • Sculptures at the village of Mont.

    • Personalities

  • Claude Chabrol, (1930-2010), a native of Sardent, shot his first film Le Beau Serge in Sardent
  • Eugene Jamot, (1879-1937), doctor of tropical medicine, was born here.

    • References

    Sardent Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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