Laroche-près-Feyt is a
commune in the
Corrèze department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in central
France.
Geography
The
Chavanon
The Chavanon (; oc, Chavanon) (also called ''la Ramade'') is a long river in the Creuse, Puy-de-Dôme and Corrèze ''départements'', central France. Its source is in Crocq. It flows generally southeast. It is a right tributary of the Dordogne i ...
forms the commune's eastern boundary.
Population
Notable people
The following were born in Laroche-près-Feyt:
*
Pierre Flote (middle of 13th century - 11 July 1302), possibly born here, Chancellor to
Philip IV, le Bel, éventuellement né à Laroche-près-Feyt.
*
Pierre de Besse (1567 - 11 November 1639), preacher to
Louis XIII.
*
Jean-Hippolyte Michon
Jean-Hippolyte Michon (21 November 1806 – 8 May 1881) was a French priest, an archaeologist, and the founder of graphology.
Born in Laroche-près-Feyt, department of Corrèze, he studied in Angoulême and at the seminary in Église Saint-Sulpice ...
(1806-1881), priest, archaeologist, inventor of
graphology
Graphology is the analysis of handwriting with attempt to determine someone's personality traits. No scientific evidence exists to support graphology, and it is generally considered a pseudoscience or scientifically questionable practice. Howe ...
.
See also
*
Communes of the Corrèze department
References
Communes of Corrèze
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