Nohant-Vic
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Nohant-Vic ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a commune in the Indre department in central France.
It is located near La Châtre, on the D943, approximately Template:Convert southeast of Châteauroux and consists of two villages, Vic and Nohant, extended along the road.
GeographyEdit
The commune lies on the lower Jurassic rocks at the southern margin of the Paris Basin. Just to the south of La Châtre, some twelve kilometres south of Vic, the Variscan-faulted rocks of the Massif Central begin with Cambrian/Ordovician migmatite.
It is near the southern end of the old province of Berry.
PopulationEdit
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SightsEdit
The House of George Sand is a country house dating from late eighteenth century, built for the governor of Vierzon and acquired in 1793 by Madame Dupin de Francueil, grandmother of the writer. George Sand spent her childhood and adolescence there. Most of her writing was done at the house. She received some illustrious guests including Liszt and Marie d'Agoult, Balzac, Chopin and Flaubert. Delacroix also worked at Nohant while visiting George Sand.<ref>Letter from George Sand to Eugène Delacroix, Musée National Eugène Delacroix</ref> The estate is today a property of the nation and run by the Centre des monuments nationaux.<ref>Template:Base Mérimée</ref>
The ancient church of Saint-Martin in Nohant-Vic features a number of 12th century wall paintings.<ref>Template:Base Mérimée</ref>
PersonalitiesEdit
- Marie-Aurore de Saxe (1748–1821), daughter of the Maréchal de Saxe, who bought the Nohant estate in 1793.
- Aurore Dupin, known as George Sand (1804–1876), granddaughter of the above, who spent most of her life at Nohant.
- Frédéric Chopin (March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849) spent seven summers in Nohant and composed some of his greatest works in George Sand's estate.