Saint-Privat-du-Fau

Saint-Privat-du-Fau is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.

Saint-Privat-du-Fau
Location of Saint-Privat-du-Fau
Saint-Privat-du-Fau
Saint-Privat-du-Fau
Coordinates: 44°55′04″N 3°20′27″E
CountryFrance
RegionOccitanie
DepartmentLozère
ArrondissementMende
CantonSaint-Alban-sur-Limagnole
IntercommunalityTerres d'Apcher
Government
  Mayor (20142020) Jean-Claude Laurent
Area
1
22.16 km2 (8.56 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
124
  Density5.6/km2 (14/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
48179 /48140
Elevation879–1,417 m (2,884–4,649 ft)
(avg. 1,100 m or 3,600 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Notable people

  • Augustin Trébuchon (30 May 1878 11 November 1918) was the last French soldier killed during the First World War.[2] He was a shepherd in Saint-Privat-du-Fau when he was mobilised in 1914.

See also

References

  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. John Hayes-Fisher (29 October 2008). "The last soldiers to die in World War I". BBC Magazine. Retrieved 24 March 2020. At 10.45 another 40-year-old soldier, Frenchman Augustin Trebuchon, was taking a message to troops by the River Meuse saying that soup would be served at 11.30 after the peace, when he too was killed.



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