Germigny-l'Exempt explained

Germigny-l’Exempt
Commune Status:	Commune
Arrondissement:	Saint-Amand-Montrond
Canton:	La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois
Insee:	18101
Postal Code:	18150
Mayor:	Olivier Beatrix^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Coordinates:	46.9181°N 2.8978°W
Elevation M:	200
Elevation Min M:	180
Elevation Max M:	227
Area Km2:	28.26

Germigny-l’Exempt (in French pronounced as /ʒɛʁmiɲi lɛɡzɑ̃/) is a commune in the central French department of Cher.

Geography

A farming area comprising the village and a couple of hamlets situated by the banks of the small Luisant river some 24miles southeast of Bourges at the junction of departmental routes D100, D15, D78, D43.

Population

Sights

• The twelfth-century church of Notre-Dame, with its exceptionally tall tower-porch, was built after the siege of 1108 by Louis VI the Fat^[2] as a symbol of the Capetian « Pax Dei ».^[3] The inconographic program of its inner portal of 1215 is inherited from the north porch of the west portal of two churches: Laon Cathedral and the abbey church in Saint-Gilles du Gard. The tympanum showing a Sedes Sapientiae is meant to celebrate the triumph of the Church (the Virgin being symbolic of the Church) upon heretics who reject the real presence in the eucharist.^[4]
• The chateau of Château-Renaud, dating from the seventeenth century.

See also

• Communes of the Cher department

Bibliography

• Book: Legeard, Emmanuel . 2022 . Germigny-l'Exempt ou les Trois Deniers de Gaspard . Germigny-l'Exempt or Gaspard's three coins . fr . Paris . L'Harmattan . 978-2-14-027811-2.

External links

• Photographs of the commune

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 9 August 2021. fr.
2. LEGEARD . Emmanuel . September 2021 . Le siège de Germigny en Bourbonnais : une page méconnue d'histoire . French . Bulletin de la Société d'Emulation du Bourbonnais . 80 . 3 . 388–404 .
3. LEGEARD . Emmanuel . 2021 . Notre-Dame de Germigny-L'Exempt: un patrimoine à surveiller . French . La Gazette du Patrimoine . May .
4. LEGEARD . Emmanuel . February 2021 . Saint-Gilles, Laon, Germigny : Iconologie d'une représentation politique de la Vierge dans le "style 1200" . French . De Medio Aevo . 15 . 1 . 231–240 . 10.5209/dmae.73298 . 234067807 . free .