Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon explained

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:

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011070/ensemble.pdf Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019
  2. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2015/12/2/INTB1530829A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral
  3. Book: Castle, Alan . The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail . Cicerone . 2nd . 2007 . 978-1-85284-511-7 . 129–127.