Saint-Just-la-Pendue (; frp, Sant-Just-la-Pendua) is a
commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Loire
The Loire (, also ; ; oc, Léger, ; la, Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône ...
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
The name of the commune dates from the 11th century and is recorded in the documents of
Savigny Abbey, Rhône
The Abbey of Saint-Martin de Savigny was a Benedictine monastery in the Archdiocese of Lyon. Nothing today survives of its buildings other than some stones in the Musée Lapidaire of Savigny-en-Lyonnais.
It was founded by Leidradus after he res ...
. The qualifying name ''la Pendue'' stems from an oral tradition of a woman hanged for adultery, who, after four days, fell to the ground alive, a proof of her innocence. Supposedly the location of the execution, a local wood also bears the name ''la Pendue''.
Population
Personalities
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Georges Guillard
Georges Guillard (born 19 May 1939) is a French organist, former holder of the Great Organ of the Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux church in Paris.
Life
Born in Saint-Just-la-Pendue, Guillard was for a long time the holder of the Grandes Orgues de ...
, organist and musicologist
* Jean Dupuis, trader and explorer