Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon | |
Arrondissement: | Florac |
Canton: | Le Collet-de-Dèze |
Insee: | 48162 |
Postal Code: | 48400 |
Commune: | Cans-et-Cévennes |
Coordinates: | 44.3003°N 3.6664°W |
Elevation M: | 610 |
Elevation Min M: | 580 |
Elevation Max M: | 1421 |
Area Km2: | 20.72 |
Population: | 93 |
Population Date: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ ʒyljɛ̃ daʁpaɔ̃/; Occitan (post 1500);: Sent Julian d'Arpaon) is a former commune in the Lozère department in southern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Cans-et-Cévennes.[2] Its population was 93 in 2019.[1]
Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon stands at a crossing of the river Mimente on the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (GR 70), a popular long-distance path following approximately the route travelled by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1878 and described in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.[3] Stevenson mentions the village and its ruined chateau in passing, though not by name: