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Sédelle
The Sédelle is a river in the Creuse department, central France; it is a tributary of the river Creuse and a sub-affluent of the Loire. Geography It is long. The river spring is located near Lizières. The river has a meandering path. It joins la Creuse near the lac de Chambon. Towns La Sédelle flows through the communes of Lizières, Saint-Priest-la-Feuille, La Souterraine, Saint-Agnant-de-Versillat, Saint-Germain-Beaupré, Saint-Léger-Bridereix, Sagnat, La Chapelle-Baloue, Lafat and Crozant. Fish La Sédelle is lush in wild trouts (truites farios), chubs, bleaks, pikes and zanders. Elle fait ainsi le bonheur des pêcheurs creusois. Curiosities and tourism * La Souterraine, medieval town, 11th and 12th century church (tower from the 13th), with a crypt enclosing an old subterranean* Gallo-Roman sanctuary. Many middle-age and Renaissance houses. * the name of the city * The lac de Chambon : aquatic sporting activities; hiking; dam visit * The Crozant sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crozant
Crozant (; oc, Crosenc) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in France. Geography A tourism and farming village situated some northeast of Guéret, on the D72 and by the banks of the river Creuse, the boundary with the department of Indre. This administrative boundary is very old. It approximates to the linguistic boundary between the langue d'oïl and langue d'oc. It also has a geological significance: to the south, the granite foothills of the Massif central, while in the plains to the north begins the limestone of the Paris basin. When the Eguzon dam on the Creuse was built in 1926, the landscape, society and the local economy changed under the water’s influence in just a few years. One has only to see old postcards and the works of Armand Guillaumin, who painted about 140 landscapes, to notice the difference. The moors were maintained by the extensive grazing of sheep and goats, which slowly declined between the two wars and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Chapelle-Baloue
La Chapelle-Baloue (; oc, La Chapèle) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France. Geography A farming area comprising the village and a few small hamlets situated at the junction of the rivers Sédelle and Brézentine, some northwest of Guéret at the junction of the D69 and the D72 roads. The commune lies on the pilgrimage route known as St James's Way. Population Sights * The church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, dating from the twelfth century. * The chateau and some ancient fortifications. * A fourteenth-century stone cross. See also *Communes of the Creuse department The following is a list of the 256 communes of the Creuse department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafat
Lafat is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France. Geography A farming area comprising the village and a few small hamlets situated some northwest of Guéret at the junction of the D49 and the D69 roads. The small rivers Sédelle and Brézentine, tributaries of the Creuse, flow through the commune. Population Sights * The church, dating from the fifteenth century. * The thirteenth-century chapel. * A watermill. See also *Communes of the Creuse department The following is a list of the 256 communes of the Creuse department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Creuse {{Creuse-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Souterraine
La Souterraine (; Limousin: ''La Sotarrana'') is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France. Geography La Souterraine is an area of farming and light industry, comprising the town and a few small hamlets. It is situated some west of Guéret, at the junction of the D1, D912, D951 and the N145 roads. It is also served by a TER railway link. The small river Sédelle, a tributary of the Creuse, flows through the town. The sources of the Benaize, a tributary of the Anglin, and the Brame, a tributary of the Gartempe, are both in the commune. History There is evidence of pre-Roman occupation here, attested by the discovery of Stone Age tools and a menhir. Remains of Roman villas and temples have been unearthed. In medieval times, a church and fortified walls were built. The name of the town, translating as ‘subterranean’, comes from the underground parts of the church, the crypt. Population Sights * The church dating from the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creuse (river)
The Creuse (; oc, Cruesa) is a long river in western France, a tributary of the Vienne. Its source is in the Plateau de Millevaches, a north-western extension of the Massif Central. Course The Creuse flows northwest through the following departments and towns: * Creuse department (named after the river): Aubusson. * Indre department: Argenton-sur-Creuse, Le Blanc. * Indre-et-Loire department : Yzeures-sur-Creuse, Descartes * Vienne department: La Roche-Posay The Creuse flows into the Vienne about north of Châtellerault. It receives its longest tributary, the Gartempe, in La Roche-Posay. The Creuse valley is the setting for paintings by the so-called Crozant School, including works by Armand Guillaumin and a series of vivid landscapes by the Bordeaux artist Alfred Smith. Dams and lakes There are six hydroelectric dams on the river. Three are in the Creuse département with one at Chambon-Sainte-Croix above Anzême, one at Les Chezelles near Le Bourg-d'Hem and one at L'� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Léger-Bridereix
Saint-Léger-Bridereix (; Limousin: ''Sent Legèr'') is a commune in the Creuse department in central France. Population See also *Communes of the Creuse department The following is a list of the 256 communes of the Creuse department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Creuse {{Creuse-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of France
This is a list of rivers that are at least partially in France. The rivers are grouped by sea or ocean. The rivers flowing into the sea are sorted along the coast. Rivers flowing into other rivers are listed by the rivers they flow into. Some rivers (e.g. Sûre/Sauer) do not flow through France themselves, but they are mentioned for having French tributaries. They are given in ''italics''. For clarity, only rivers that are longer than 50 km (or have longer tributaries) are shown. In French, rivers are traditionally classified either as ''fleuves'' when they flow into the sea (or into a desert or lake), or as ''rivières'' when they flow into another river. The ''fleuves'' are shown in bold. For an alphabetical overview of rivers of France, see the category Rivers of France. Tributary list North Sea The rivers in this section are sorted north-east (Netherlands) to south-west (Calais). * Rhine/Rhin (main branch at Hook of Holland, Netherlands) ** Moselle (in Koblenz, Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to '' plein air'' (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting '' Impression, soleil levant'', exhibited in the 1874 ("exhibition of rejects") initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon. Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing from an early age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disapproved and wanted him to pursue a career in business. He was very close to his m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresselines
Fresselines (; oc, Fraisselinas) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France. Geography A tourism and farming village situated some northwest of Guéret, at the junction of the D76 and the D44 roads, where the river Petite Creuse joins the Creuse. Population Sights * The church of St.Julien, dating from the twelfth century. * The two 15th-century châteaux of Puyguillon and Vervix * Two 15th-century chapels. Personalities * Maurice Rollinat (1846–1903), poet, lived here. * Gustave Geffroy, (1855–1926), writer, lived here. * Claude Monet, painter, spent much time here. See also *Communes of the Creuse department The following is a list of the 256 communes of the Creuse department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zander
The zander (''Sander lucioperca''), sander or pikeperch, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Percidae, which includes the perches, ruffes and darters. It is found in freshwater and brackish habitats in western Eurasia. It is a popular game fish and has been introduced to a variety of localities outside its native range. It is the type species of the genus ''Sander''. Taxonomy The zander was first formally described in 1758 as ''Perca lucioperca'' by Carolus Linnaeus in volume 1 of the tenth edition of ''Systema Naturae'' and he gave the type locality as "European lakes". When Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) created the genus '' Sander'' he made ''Perca lucioperca'' its type species. The zander is part of the European clade within the genus ''Sander'' which split from a common ancestor with the North American clade, which the walleye (''S. vitreus'') and the sauger (''S. canadensis'') belong to, around 20.8 million years ago. Within the European clade the Volga pikeperch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alburnus
''Alburnus'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. They are known commonly as bleaks. A group of species in the genus is known as shemayas. The genus occurs in the western Palearctic realm, and the center of diversity is in Turkey. The genus ''Chalcalburnus'' is now part of ''Alburnus''. Species Currently, 45 recognized species are placed in this genus: * ''Alburnus adanensis'' Fahire Battalgil, Battalgazi, 1944 (Adana bleak) * †''Alburnus akili'' Battalgil, 1942 (Beyşehir bleak) * ''Alburnus albidus'' Oronzio Gabriele Costa, O. G. Costa, 1838 (Italian bleak) * ''Alburnus alburnus'' Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 1758 (common bleak) * ''Alburnus amirkabiri'' Hamed Mousavi-Sabet, Mousavi-Sabet, Saber Vatandoust, Vatandoust, Somayeh Khataminejad, Khataminejad, Soheil Eagderi, Eagderi, Keivan Abbasi, Abbasi, Manoochehr Nasri, M. Nasri, Arash Jouladeh Roudbar, Jouladeh & Ekaterina Denisovna Vasil'eva, Vasil'eva, 2015 * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray-finned Fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or horny spines (rays), as opposed to the fleshy, lobed fins that characterize the class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish). These actinopterygian fin rays attach directly to the proximal or basal skeletal elements, the radials, which represent the link or connection between these fins and the internal skeleton (e.g., pelvic and pectoral girdles). By species count, actinopterygians dominate the vertebrates, and they constitute nearly 99% of the over 30,000 species of fish. They are ubiquitous throughout freshwater and marine environments from the deep sea to the highest mountain streams. Extant species can range in size from '' Paedocypris'', at , to the massive ocean sunfish, at , and the long-bodied oarfish, at . The vast majority of Actino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
