Gignac, Hérault

Gignac
Notre Dame de Grâce
Coat of arms
Gignac
Location within Languedoc-Roussillon region Gignac
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Hérault
Arrondissement	Lodève
Canton	Gignac
Intercommunality	Vallée de l'Hérault
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Jean François Soto
Area1	29.85 km2 (11.53 sq mi)
Population (2011)2	5,515
• Density	180/km2 (480/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	34114 / 34150
Elevation	28–286 m (92–938 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.

Gignac (in Occitan Ginhac) is a commune in the Hérault département in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France.

Population

Its inhabitants are called Gignacois.

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	2,540	—
1968	2,746	+8.1%
1975	2,848	+3.7%
1982	3,228	+13.3%
1990	3,652	+13.1%
1999	3,955	+8.3%
2008	5,165	+30.6%
2011	5,515	+6.8%

Sights

• Gignac Bridge over the Hérault River, completed 1810.
• Church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
• "Tour sarrasine" tower

Personalities

• Antoine de Laurès (1708–1779), writer, friend of Voltaire, translator into French of Pharsalia by Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), and author of La fête de Cythère, a one-act opera created on 19 November 1753 at the Château de Berny. He lived in the Château de Gignac.

Map

Map

See also

• Communes of the Hérault department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Official site (French)
• Gignac on the Quid site (French)
• Position of Gignac on a map of France
• Map of Gignac on Mapquest