Le Rouget
View on WikipediaLe Rouget (French pronunciation: [lə ʁuʒɛ]; Languedocien: Lo Roget) is a former commune in the département of Cantal in south-central France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Le Rouget-Pers.[2]
Key Information
Le Rouget, having grown from a hamlet as a result of coming of the railway, will not be found on many 19th-century maps. It was not granted commune status (and, with it, the right to elect a mayor of its own) until September 1945,[3] but is today a more important commercial and employment centre than the nearby historic cantonal centres of Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat and Laroquebrou, although it lacks their architectural and historical interest.
A market is held every Sunday morning.
Population
[edit]| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 600 | — |
| 1962 | 834 | +2.08% |
| 1968 | 918 | +1.61% |
| 1975 | 963 | +0.69% |
| 1982 | 902 | −0.93% |
| 1990 | 910 | +0.11% |
| 1999 | 901 | −0.11% |
| 2022 | 1,017 | +0.53% |
| Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (2022)[1] | ||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.
- ^ Arrêté préfectoral Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine 4 December 2015 (in French)
- ^ Archive of Cantal[permanent dead link] about Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat and the creation of Le Rouget.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Le Rouget, EHESS (in French).
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