Chavenon

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Chavenon
Commune
The church in Chavenon
Location of Chavenon
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Coordinates: 46°24′53″N 2°56′50″E / 46.4147°N 2.9472°E / 46.4147; 2.9472
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Allier
Arrondissement	Montluçon
Canton	Commentry
Intercommunality	Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	François Tarian[1]
Area 1	17.47 km2 (6.75 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	137
• Density	7.8/km2 (20/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	03070 /03440
Elevation	265–416 m (869–1,365 ft) (avg. 365 m or 1,198 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Chavenon (French pronunciation:

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History

The former name is Ecclesia de Cavenone,[3] the name of a monastery which was destroyed in the French Revolution.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	304	—
1975	235	−3.61%
1982	179	−3.81%
1990	155	−1.78%
1999	159	+0.28%
2009	141	−1.19%
2014	129	−1.76%
2020	135	+0.76%
Source: INSEE[4]

Transportation

Chavenon station, on the railway between Montluçon and Moulins, was closed for passengers in 1972.

Government

The following table shows

of Chavenon.

Name	Start	End
Bernard Madet	2001	2008
Jean-Pierre Delsaux	2008	2014
François Tarian	2014	current

Sights

• Saint-Martin Church,^[5] which is a 12th-century building

• Castle Montgeorges, which is a 16th-century building
• Manor of Saint Hubertus, which is a 19th-century mansion and now a Russian orthodox monastery with a park drawn by the landscape gardener François-Marie Treyve.

• Cassini map
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• Manor of Sceauve, which is a former fief.

Personalities

Born in Chavenon:

• Cécile Desliens (1853–1937), painter
• Marie Desliens (1856–1938), painter

See also

• Bourbonnais
• Communes of the Allier department

References

External links

• (in French) Official site
• (in English) Versailles national school of landscape architecture