Chasseradès

Chasseradès
Chasseradès
Part of Mont Lozère et Goulet
	The church tower and surrounding buildings, in Chasseradès
	Location of Chasseradès
	Chasseradès Chasseradès
	Coordinates: 44°33′07″N 3°49′36″E / 44.5519°N 3.8267°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Lozère
Arrondissement	Mende
Canton	Saint-Étienne-du-Valdonnez
Commune	Mont Lozère et Goulet
Area 1	61.93 km2 (23.91 sq mi)
Population (2019)	138
• Density	2.2/km2 (5.8/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC 01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC 02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	48250
Elevation	951–1,482 m (3,120–4,862 ft) ; (avg. 1,171 m or 3,842 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Chasseradès (French pronunciation: [ʃasʁadɛs]; Occitan: Chassaradés) is a former commune in the Lozère department in southern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mont Lozère et Goulet.^[2] Its population was 138 in 2019.^[1]

The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson stayed at an inn in the village of Chasseradès on the night of 27 September 1878, as recounted in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.^[3] The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (GR 70), a popular long-distance path following Stevenson's approximate route, runs through the village.^[4]

Geography

The commune is traversed by the river Chassezac.

^ ^a ^b Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
^ Arrêté préfectoral 23 May 2016 (in French)
^ Stevenson, Robert Louis (1905) [1879]. "Upper Gévaudan (Continued)" . Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 106 – via Wikisource.
^ Castle, Alan (2007). The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (2nd ed.). Cicerone. pp. 122–126. ISBN 978-1-85284-511-7.

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