Saint-Barbant
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| local community | Val-d'Oire-et-Gartempe | |
| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Haute-Vienne | |
| Arrondissement | Bellac | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 10 ′ N , 0 ° 51 ′ E | |
| Post Code | 87330 | |
| Former INSEE code | 87136 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul church |
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Saint-Barbant is a commune Déléguée in the French community Val-d'Oire-et-Gartempe with 314 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine , in the Haute-Vienne department and Arrondissement of Bellac . Since the canton of Mézières-sur-Issoire was dissolved in 2015, the municipality of Saint-Barbant came to the canton of Bellac . The residents call themselves Saint-Barbanteaux .
On January 1, 2019, the municipality of Saint-Barbant merged with Thiat , Bussière-Poitevine and Darnac to form the Commune nouvelle Val-d'Oire-et-Gartempe. Since then it has had the status of a Commune déléguée.
location
The municipality bordered Adriers to the north-west, Bussière-Poitevine to the north-east, Saint-Bonnet-de-Bellac to the east, Saint-Martial-sur-Isop to the south, Asnières-sur-Blour to the south-west and Luchapt to the west and Mouterre-sur-Blourde .
geology
In Saint-Barbant there is the so-called Saint-Barbant quartz diorite as part of the Limousin tonalite line .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2013 |
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| Residents | 774 | 651 | 571 | 475 | 360 | 370 | 352 | 368 |
Personalities
- Fernand Foureau (1850–1914), Africa explorer and colonial governor
