Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon

Former commune in Lozère, France

Part of Cans-et-Cévennes in Occitania, France

Location of Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon

44°18′01″N 3°39′59″E / 44.3003°N 3.6664°E / 44.3003; 3.6664CountryFranceRegionOccitaniaDepartmentLozèreArrondissementFloracCantonLe Collet-de-DèzeCommuneCans-et-Cévennes Area

20.72 km² (8.00 sq mi)Population

(2019)^[1]

93 • Density4.5/km² (12/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal code

48400

Elevation580–1,421 m (1,903–4,662 ft)
(avg. 610 m or 2,000 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒyljɛ̃ daʁpaɔ̃]; Occitan: Sent Julian d'Arpaon) is a former commune in the Lozère department in southern France.^[2] On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Cans-et-Cévennes.^[3] Its population was 93 in 2019.^[1]

Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon stands at a crossing of the river Mimente on the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (GR 70), a popular long-distance path following approximately the route travelled by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1878 and described in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.^[4] Stevenson mentions the village and its ruined chateau in passing, though not by name:

...the road passed hard by two black hamlets, one with an old castle atop to please the heart of the tourist.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon, EHESS (in French).
^ Arrêté préfectoral 2–14 December 2015
^ Castle, Alan (2007). The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (2nd ed.). Cicerone. pp. 129–127. ISBN 978-1-85284-511-7.
^ Stevenson, Robert Louis (1905) [1879]. "The Country of the Camisards" . Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 165 – via Wikisource.