Montsalvy

Montsalvy (; ) is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France.

History

Montsalvy was founded around 1070 as a monastery with a , (a refuge zone around a church or a chapel by several boundary markers) by , husband of Adèle de Carlat.

Formerly the "capital" of the region, it was for a long time the chief town of the . Today it is part of the canton of and is the second largest commune in terms of population.

Population

See also

• Communes of the Cantal department

Culture

Literature

Montsalvy appears in the following works:

• Juliette Benzoni, French author (Alexandre Dumas Prix 1973) who wrote and set her Catherine (Benzoni novel) series historical romance in Montsalvy.

Notable person

• Marcellin Boule (1861–1942), palaeontologist, geologist, and anthropologist, was born and died in Montsalvy.

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