Charenton-du-Cher () is a
commune in the
Cher
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department in the
Centre-Val de Loire
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region
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of
France
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.
Geography
An area of
farming
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,
forestry
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and a little
light industry
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comprising the village and several hamlets situated by the banks of both the
canal de Berry
The Canal de Berry () is a disused canal in France which links the Canal latéral à la Loire at Marseilles-lès-Aubigny with the Cher at Noyers rejoining the Loire near Tours. With a branch from Montluçon it provided of canal with locks w ...
and the river Marmande, some southeast of
Bourges
Bourges ( ; ; ''Borges'' in Berrichon) is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre (Cher), Yèvre. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Cher (department), Cher, and also was the capital city of the former provin ...
at the junction of the D951 with the D1 and D953 roads.
Population
Sights
* The church of St. Martin, dating from the eleventh century.
* The
motte
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of a tenth-century castle (30m diameter, 10m high).
* A fifteenth-century house on the rue Blanche.
* An old
forge
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and its associated buildings, La "Grosse Forge"
* Remains of the convent abbey of Notre-Dame de Bellevaux, founded in 620.
* The remains of the 15th century
chapel
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of St. Julien.
* A public
washhouse.
Famous people
*
Amable Ricard
Pierre Henri Amable Ricard (12 June 1828 – 11 May 1876) was a French politician and lawyer. He was Minister of the Interior between March 1876 and his death two months later.
A member of the republican centre-left, Ricard was deputy for Deux-S ...
(1828–1876), French politician
See also
*
Communes of the Cher department
The following is a list of the 286 communes of the Cher department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):
References
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Communes of Cher (department)