Sous-Parsat is a
commune
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in the
Creuse
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department in the
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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in central
France
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.
Geography
An area of lakes and streams,
farming
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and
forestry
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comprising the village and several hamlets situated some northwest of
Aubusson, at the junction of the D17, D45 and the D60 roads.
Population
Sights
* The ruins of a seventeenth-century church at Mareille-au-Prieur.
* 2
Roman
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columns.
* A
washhouse and horse-trough at Le Pont.
* The church, with parts dating from the twelfth century and paintings by Gabriel Chabrat realised between in the 1980s.
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Image:Sous-Parsat crucifiction.jpg,
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See also
*
Communes of the Creuse department
References
External links
The church paintings, by Chabrat
Communes of Creuse
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