Capdenac () is a
commune in the
Lot
Lot or LOT or The Lot or ''similar'' may refer to:
Common meanings Areas
* Land lot, an area of land
* Parking lot, for automobiles
*Backlot, in movie production
Sets of items
*Lot number, in batch production
*Lot, a set of goods for sale togethe ...
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in south-western
France.
It has been inhabited since prehistoric times. At one time Capdenac was thought to be identifiable as the Gaulish settlement of
Uxellodunum which was besieged by
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and ...
, but this theory has been discredited.
Geography
The old village of Capdenac is situated on a hill on a ridge which forces a large meander in the river
Lot
Lot or LOT or The Lot or ''similar'' may refer to:
Common meanings Areas
* Land lot, an area of land
* Parking lot, for automobiles
*Backlot, in movie production
Sets of items
*Lot number, in batch production
*Lot, a set of goods for sale togethe ...
. It is directly west, across the river from the main town of
Capdenac-Gare
Capdenac-Gare (; oc, Capdenac) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. The old village of Capdenac is directly west of Capdenac-Gare, across the river Lot. In the southern outskirts of Capdenac-Gare is the area of Massip.
...
. To the south of Capdenac-Gare is the area of Massip, which is the location of a convent.
Convent during the Second World War
During the Second World War, encouraged by contact with
Archbishop Saliège and Monseigneur de Courrège d'Ustou, Sister Denise Bergon arranged for the convent of Notre Dame de Massip in Capdenac (where she was
Mother Superior) to shelter some 83 Jewish children at risk due to
the Holocaust in France.
[ The children were hidden in the convent's boarding school. Apart from Sister Denise, only Sister Marguerite Roques (nurse and mathematics teacher), together with the school's chaplain and two other sisters knew the truth about the children's religious backgrounds.]Georges Garel
Georges Garel (also known as ''Gasquet'', born Grigori Garfinkel; 1 March 1909, Vilnius, Vilna9 January 1979, Paris) was a Frenchman of Russian Jewish extraction celebrated for his exploits with the French Resistance in World War II. He was also ...
, Marguerite Roques, and Jules Saliège (Monseigneur Saliège).Louise Thèbes
''www.ajpn.org (Anonymes, Justes et Persécutés durant la période Nazie dans les communes de France)'', accessed 15 September 2020
See also
*
Communes of the Lot department
References
Communes of Lot (department)
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