Nohant-Vic

Nohant-Vic
The Church of Saint-Martin, in Vic
Nohant-Vic
Location within Centre region Nohant-Vic
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre
Arrondissement	La Châtre
Canton	La Châtre
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jacky Naudet
Area1	21.25 km2 (8.20 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	476
• Density	22/km2 (58/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	36143 / 36400
Elevation	175–261 m (574–856 ft) (avg. 191 m or 627 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Nohant-Vic is a commune in the Indre department in central France.

It is located near La Châtre, on the D943, approximately 36 km (22 mi) southeast of Châteauroux and consists of two villages, Vic and Nohant, extended along the road.

Geography

The commune lies on the lower Jurassic rocks at the southern margin of the Paris Basin. Just to the south of La Châtre, some twelve kilometres south of Vic, the Variscan-faulted rocks of the Massif Central begin with Cambrian/Ordovician migmatite.

It is near the southern end of the old province of Berry.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	272	—
1800	308	+13.2%
1806	301	−2.3%
1821	327	+8.6%
1831	982	+200.3%
1836	969	−1.3%
1841	931	−3.9%
1846	885	−4.9%
1851	892	+0.8%
1856	857	−3.9%
1861	904	+5.5%
1866	937	+3.7%
1872	939	+0.2%
1876	960	+2.2%
1881	984	+2.5%
1886	991	+0.7%
1891	981	−1.0%
1896	983	+0.2%
1901	949	−3.5%
1906	908	−4.3%
1911	864	−4.8%
1921	796	−7.9%
1926	779	−2.1%
1931	743	−4.6%
1936	747	+0.5%
1946	711	−4.8%
1954	690	−3.0%
1962	661	−4.2%
1968	608	−8.0%
1975	514	−15.5%
1982	480	−6.6%
1990	481	+0.2%
1999	501	+4.2%
2009	476	−5.0%

Sights

The House of George Sand is a country house dating from late eighteenth century, built for the governor of Vierzon and acquired in 1793 by Madame Dupin de Francueil, grandmother of the writer. George Sand spent her childhood and adolescence there. Most of her writing was done at the house. She received some illustrious guests: Liszt and Marie d'Agoult, Balzac, Chopin and Flaubert. Delacroix had a studio there. The estate is today a property of the nation and run by the Centre des monuments nationaux.

The ancient church in Nohant-Vic is particularly worth visiting for its impressive collection of early wall paintings.

Personalities

• Marie-Aurore de Saxe Dupin de Francueil (1748–1821), daughter of the Maréchal de Saxe, who bought the Nohant estate in 1793.
• Aurore Dupin, known as George Sand (1804–1876), granddaughter of the above, who spent most of her life at Nohant.
• Frédéric Chopin (March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849) composed some of his greatest works in George Sand's estate in Nohant.

See also

• Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
• Communes of the Indre department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Find Nohant-Vic on the map of France
• Nohant-Vic on Mapquest