Lormes
Lormes () is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France. The mystic Simon Ganneau (1805–1851) was born in Lormes, as was the writer Henri Bachelin (1879–1941), winner of the 1918 Prix Femina for ''Le Serviteur''. Demographics On 1 January 2019, the estimated population was 1,273. See also * Communes of the Nièvre department *Parc naturel régional du Morvan Morvan Regional Natural Park (French: ''Parc naturel régional du Morvan'') is a protected area of woodlands, lakes and traditional farmland in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central France. It covers a total area of and extends through f ... References External linksLormes.net (Unofficial website)Lormes.fr (Official website) Communes of Nièvre {{Nièvre-geo-stub ...
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Communes Of The Nièvre Department
The following is a list of the 309 communes of the Nièvre department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):BANATIC
Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 3 July 2020. *Communauté d'agglomération (partly) *

Henri Bachelin
Henri Bachelin (27 March 1879 – 21 September 1941) was a 20th-century French writer Biography After studying at the seminary of Nevers, followed by four years in the army, he practiced the profession of bank clerk, which he abandoned in 1911 to devote himself exclusively to literature. He published about forty books, mostly novels and short stories, but also works of literary criticism and musicology. These are works centered on the painting of provincial life, like ''Sous d'humbles toits'', ''Juliette la jolie'' or ''Le Village'', where he depicts the countryside and villages of the Morvan with great realism. He was also the author of historical novels (''L'Abbaye-Vézelay au XIIe siècle'', ''La mort de Bibracte''), novels of manners (''Le Péché de la Vierge'', ''La Vénus rustique'') and training novels fed with autobiographical elements (''L'Héritage'', ''Le Chant du coq''). He was awarded the prix Femina in 1918 for ''Le Serviteur'', in which he pays homage to his fath ...
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Simon Ganneau
Simon Ganneau (born circa 1805 in Lormes, died 14 March 1851 in Paris) was a French socialist, feminist, sculptor, and mystic.Julian Strube, ''Sozialismus, Katholizismus und Okkultismus im Frankreich des 9. Jahrhunderts: Die Genealogie der Schriften von Eliphas Lévi'' (2016), page 256Naomi Judith Andrews, ''Socialism's Muse: Gender in the Intellectual Landscape of French Romantic Socialism'' (2006), pages 40-41, 95, 102Charles Nauroy (ed.), ''Le Curieux'' (1888), volume 2, page 239 Like several other socialists of his time, Ganneau treated Christianity as a call for social reform.Susan Grogan, ''Flora Tristan: Life Stories'' (2002), pages 193-194 He was influenced by Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin and Saint-Simonian philosophy, particularly in viewing God as an androgynous or bisexual. Ganneau's writings treat androgyny not only as a move towards religious salvation, the final stage of humanity, but also as embodying the socialist concept on unity and balance in the world. Adop ...
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Parc Naturel Régional Du Morvan
Morvan Regional Natural Park (French: ''Parc naturel régional du Morvan'') is a protected area of woodlands, lakes and traditional farmland in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central France. It covers a total area of and extends through four different departments with the majority being in Nièvre. The area was officially designated as a regional natural park in 1970. The ''maison du parc'' (main visitors center) is located in the small commune of Saint-Brisson. It maintains one of the park's six natural history museums (''Écomusée de Morvan''). Member communes The park includes 117 communes as well as five associated partner communes. * Aisy-sous-Thil • Alligny-en-Morvan • Anost • Antully • Arleuf • Arnay-le-Duc • Asquins • Autun • Avallon * Bard-le-Régulier • Bazoches • Beauvilliers • Blanot • Blismes • Brassy • Brazey-en-Morvan • Bussières * Cervon • Chalaux • Champeau-en-Morvan • Chastellux-sur-Cure • Château-C ...
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Communes Of France
The () is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, ' in Germany, ' in Italy, or ' in Spain. The United Kingdom's equivalent are civil parishes, although some areas, particularly urban areas, are unparished. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the municipal arrondi ...
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Nièvre
Nièvre () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central-east France. Named after the river Nièvre, it had a population of 204,452 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 58 Nièvre
INSEE Its is . Covering an area 6,817 square kilometres (2,632 sq mi), Nièvre is landlocked between six other departments: to the north,

Departments Of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety-six departments are in metropolitan France, and five are overseas departments, which are also classified as overseas regions. Departments are further subdivided into 332 arrondissements, and these are divided into cantons. The last two levels of government have no autonomy; they are the basis of local organisation of police, fire departments and, sometimes, administration of elections. Each department is administered by an elected body called a departmental council ( ing. lur.. From 1800 to April 2015, these were called general councils ( ing. lur.. Each council has a president. Their main areas of responsibility include the management of a number of social and welfare allowances, of junior high school () buildings and technical staff, ...
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Prix Femina
The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine '' La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works written in prose or verse, by both women and men. The winner is announced on the first Wednesday of November each year. Prix Femina–Vie Heureuse After the Great War, in 1919 Librairie Hachette proposed to the allied countries to create a similar prize. Great Britain accepted, and the first meeting of its jury was held on 20 June 1920. The prize was called the Prix Femina–Vie Heureuse, and it was awarded to English writers, from 1920 to 1939. Among the winners were E. M. Forster in 1925 and Virginia Woolf in 1928. Similarly, in 1920 Lady Northcliffe, wife of Alfred Harmsworth, proposed to create a prize for French writers called the Northcliffe prize. Among the winners were Joseph Kessel in 1924, Julien Green in 1928, and Jean Giono in 1931. ...
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