Neussargues-Moissac (; ) is a
commune in the
Cantal
Cantal (; or ) is a rural Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region of France, with its Prefectures in France, prefecture in Aurillac. Its other principal towns are Saint-Flour, Cantal, Saint-Flou ...
department in south-central
France
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. Between December 2016 and January 2025, it was part of
Neussargues en Pinatelle.
Population
Sights
* Château St Benoît: owned by the family of
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithology, ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th century, he was also an ou ...
's first wife,
Claire Delbos. Messiaen worked on ''
L'Ascension'' there.
*
Castle Marguerite (Villa ou Château Marguerite): 19th century building.
*The Valley of Alagnon
*
Villa Marguerite: late 19th-century French mansion.
The river
Alagnon is a tributary of the
Allier
Allier ( , , ; ) is a Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region that borders Cher (department), Cher to the west, Nièvre to the north, Saône-et-Loire and Loire (department), Loire to the east, Pu ...
.
Personalities
*
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithology, ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th century, he was also an ou ...
[
OM 022b - L'Ascension, pour orgue eussargues, été 1933 puis Paris, 1934]
*
Claire Delbos,
violin
The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
ist, first wife of the composer Olivier Messiaen.
See also
*
Communes of the Cantal department
The following is a list of the 246 Communes of France, communes of the Cantal Departments of France, department of France.
Intercommunalities
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as ...
References
External links
* about Mr. Maurice Guiba
Murat at the end of the 19th century: a city, a mayor, a newspaper by Jean-Louis Philippart* http://www.neussargues-moissac.fr/gb_patrimoine.htm
Volcano Park of Auvergne on the UNEP-WCMC site
Albepierre-Bredons
Communes of Cantal
Cantal communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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