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Sauve (; ) is a commune in the
Gard Gard () is a department in Southern France, located in the region of Occitanie. It had a population of 748,437 as of 2019;department in southern
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Population


Personalities

In the early-1990s, American underground comic artist
Robert Crumb Robert Dennis Crumb (; born August 30, 1943) is an American artist who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American c ...
traded six of his sketchbooks for a townhouse in Sauve. The late drummer of the
Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones are an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular, influential, and enduring bands of the Album era, rock era. In the early 1960s, the band pione ...
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Charlie Watts Charles Robert Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021) was an English musician who was the drummer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 until his death in 2021. Originally trained as a Graphic designer, graphic artist, Watts developed an interest i ...
(1941-2021) had an apartment in the town.
Roger Katan Roger G. Katan is a French-American architect, planner, sculptor, and activist born in Berguent (today's Ain Bni Mathar, Aïn Bni Mathar), Eastern Morocco, on January 5, 1931. Based in the United States in the early 1960s, he was an active founder ...
, French-American architect, planner, sculptor, and activist, resides in the village.


International relations

Sauve is twinned with: * Broughton in Hampshire,
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See also

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Communes of the Gard department This is a list of the 350 communes of the Gard department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Official site
Communes of Gard {{Gard-geo-stub