Safe

Geography

Village gardois located in edge of the River Vidourle

History

With the doors of the Cevennes , Sauve was a small fortress of the war of the Camisard S. the dragons of the king had elected residence in, of the masonries that today still one names, the barracks, currently acollées at the public school. Formerly, this village was a city more important than Nimes, today prefecture gardoise.

Save was always very famous for its forks (manufactured with the wood of the Micocoulier , micoucoule which wanted to say small black bay, like the fruit of the same tree), as its cherries whose trees were planted in the Mer of the Rocks . Site, visited by many tourists in summer, which does not know currently any more arboricolous life, agricultural or any other human activity which swarmed before. It is a medieval village preserved very well whose visit in summer is very pleasant.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755 - 1794), French fabulist and author of the famous song Pleasure of love
Henri Theodore Sivel (genealogy and engraving), celebrates aeronaut which with Croce Spinelli and Tissandier rose up to 8.000 meters in 1875 with a balloon of 3.000 m ³ assembled and bent in Sauve
Robert Crumb (States-unien born in 1943), one of the figureheads of the Cartoon underground, lives in Sauve since 1993
François Béranger, singer, is deceased in this commune on October 14th, 2003

See too

Common of Gard
Card of the village on quid.fr

External bonds

Saves on the site of the national geographical Institute
Sauve on the site of INSEE
Localization of Safe on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plan on Safe on Mapquest
Sauve on the site of Gard Nature

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