Ambazac
Ambazac ( Embasac in Occitan) is a common French, located in the department of the High-Vienna and the area the Limousin.
Geography
History
Administration
Demography
Places and monuments
- the church of the 12th century with its mounting reliquary of Saint-Etienne-of-Low wall (founder about Grandmont).
- Dolmen of the Wood of the Mile
- Castle of Montméry (XIXe century) (in the past Montcohu): remain built by porcelain Theodore Haviland in the years 1885 - 1890 and recently property of the family De Pourtalès. Part of the film Lady Chatterley , 5 césars in 2007, was turned to the castle, in 2005.
Personalities related to the commune
historical- Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière, actor and author (1622 - 1673), it is in Ambazac that it would have had the idea to write " Mister de Pourceaugnac " ;
- Arsene Lejeune, (1866 - 1938), architect and town planner;
- Albert Besson (1896 - 1965), doctor and hygienist, member of the Academy of Medicine: it is in Ambazac that it wrote its principal work;
- Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), type-setter: " composed; Faust " with the castle of Montmerry;
- Raymond de Sèze (1748 - 1828), lawyer and member of the French Academy;
- the Landon canon, epigraphist and Latinist, priest of Ambazac;
current
- Maurice Boitel, painter, painted in Ambazac between 1947 and 1996;
- Catherine Cesarsky, French astrophysicist, president of the astronomical Union international (UAI) since August 2006, born in Ambazac in 1943;
Twinning
- , to see
See too
- Common of High-Vienna
External bonds
- Site of the town hall of Ambazac
- Academy of the asses of Ambazac
- Ambazac on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Ambazac on the site of INSEE
- Ambazac on the site of Quid
- Localization of Ambazac on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Ambazac on Mapquest
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