| Le Rouget | |
| Arrondissement: | Aurillac |
| Canton: | Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat |
| Insee: | 15268 |
| Postal Code: | 15290 |
| Commune: | Le Rouget-Pers |
| Coordinates: | 44.8553°N 2.2325°W |
| Elevation M: | 600 |
| Elevation Min M: | 555 |
| Elevation Max M: | 665 |
| Area Km2: | 8.23 |
| Population: | 961 |
| Population Date: | 2019 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Le Rouget (in French pronounced as /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]
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.