Paray-le-Frésil

Paray-le-Frésil is a common French, located in the department Allier and the area Auvergne.

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History

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Demography

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Personalities related to the commune

The castle of Paray-le-Frésil is the cradle of the family Destutt de Tracy, whose most famous representative is the philosopher “ideologist” Antoine Destutt de Tracy, and who also counted in his rows his son, Victor Destutt de Tracy, member of Parliament under the Monarchie of July and author of a private bill tending to the abolition of the capital punishment. The tomb stone of this last is still visible with the cemetery of the village.

Georges Simenon lived the village in 1923 and 1924, in the capacity as secretary of the marquis Destutt de Tracy. Paray-le-Frésil east depicts under the fictitious name of “Saint-Hackney carriage” in one of the most famous novels of the writer, the Business Saint-Hackney carriage .

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