Journal officiel de la République française
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'' n° 0186, 10 August 1996, pp. 12182-12183. is a commune in the
Creuse
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Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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region
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in central
France
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farming
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area comprising the village and several hamlets situated by the banks of the river Banize, some southwest of Aubusson, at the junction of the D7, D10, D16 and the D36 roads. The commune lies within the natural park of the ‘Millevaches’ (1000 lakes, not cows).
Population
Sights
* The church of St. Martin, dating from the thirteenth century.
* The fourteenth-century château de Villeneuve.
* Two
menhir
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