Boffres

Boffres is a common French, located in the department of the Ardèche and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Located a few kilometres from Vernoux in the south-west of Valence.

Frame on a projection of ground in the middle of châtaigners, Boffres owes its name with the wind which blows in this area Balfredo.

The inhabitants are Boffrains

Administration

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Places and Monuments

Castle of Chabret, cradle of the family of Indy
Château Perier
On the commune of Boffres is the castle of Faugs, remains family of the type-setter Vincent d' Indy.

Personalities

Vincent d' Indy, (Paris 3/27/1851 - 12/2/1931): Born from a Cevennes family since XIVe century. Type-setter, raises César Franck, it married with a cousin with Boffres, in Ardeche, where it made build the castle of Faugs. There he wrote good number of partitions, whose “Symphony celebrates it on a French mountain song” (known as Cévenole) in 1886, day of summer on the mountain… Leader, eminent pedagog….

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