Chalmoux

Chalmoux “is a common French, located in the department of Saône-et-Loire and the area Burgundy. Its inhabitants is called Chalmouxois.

Geography

History

Chalmoux (étym. Calamossa villa ): commune of the Department of Saône-et-Loire (71140), district of Charolles (48 km.), canton of Bourbon-Lancy (7 km.). Altitude 340 Mr. Population: 777 inhabitants (census of 1999 - 1372 inhabitants in 1890, according to the Gazetteer of Joanne - 1980: 789; 1982: 829).

On the territory of the commune, old concession mining of Chizeuil (Pyrite S of Iron and Copper), exploited formerly by the Company of Creusot, then by the company Saint-Gobain, until in the Sixties.

In 980, Lambert, Count of Trawl-net - future founder of the Monastery of Paray-le-Monial -, faces near Chalmoux the troops of Guillaume IV of Aquitaine and drives back the coalition of Aquitanian and Auvergnats. The odonyme “street Lambin”, which indicates a modest communal way, car probably his origin of this quarrelsome episode.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Paul Antoine Brunel, general and member of the Council of the Common of Paris, born in Chalmoux in 1830.

Events

employers' Festival: 3rd Sunday of May.

See too

Common of Saône-et-Loire

External bonds

Chalmoux on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Chalmoux on the site of INSEE
Chalmoux on the site of Quid
Localization of Chalmoux on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Chalmoux on Mapquest

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