Canton Of Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
The Canton of Saint-Benoît-du-Sault is a French former Cantons of France, administrative subdivision, situated in the Indre Departments of France, département and the Centre (France), Centre Regions of France, région. It had 5,139 inhabitants (2012).Populations légales 2012: 36 Indre
Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, INSEE It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 14 communes, which joined the Saint-Gaultier, canton of Saint-Gaultier in 2015.
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Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (; ) is a commune in the Indre department in central France. It is a medieval village, perched in a curve on a rocky butte overlooking the Portefeuille River in the former province of Berry. Since 1988, it has been a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association. History Located in the area of Gaul settled by a powerful Celtic tribe, the Bituriges, "Kings of the World" (summa penes imperii bituriges), powerful until their defeat against Julius Caesar at Bourges (Avaricum), part of Roman Aquitania. Two dolmens (Passebonneau and des Gorces) near to Saint-Benoît-du-Sault attest to the ancientness of human presence, if not of the Bituriges. Ten centuries later, in 974, some benedictine monks of Sacierges-Saint-Martin took refuge on a granite spur, where they founded a priory: ''Salis'', future Saint-Benoît-du-Sault. From the 10th to the 17th century, the history of the priory and the new village is made ...
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