Place:La Charité-sur-Loire, Nièvre, France

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NameLa Charité-sur-Loire
Alt namesCharité-sur-Loiresource: Getty Vocabulary Program
La Charitésource: Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
La Charité-sur-Loiresource: Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
TypeCommune
Coordinates47.183°N 3.017°E
Located inNièvre, France
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La Charité-sur-Loire (before 1961: La Charité) is a commune in the Nièvre department and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

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The settlement of La Charité grew up around the Cluniac priory of that name, founded on an island site in the River Loire in 1089.

During the Hundred Years War, the town was liberated from the English by French forces only in 1435. Joan of Arc tried to liberate the city in 1429 but failed.

A great fire ravaged the town in 1559. The nave of the priory church stood in ruins until the late 17th century when it was rebuilt, albeit with its length diminished and the stone of its original facade repurposed for the reconstruction works.

In the second of the French Wars of Religion (1567–8) La Charité withstood eight months of siege by Catholic forces. It would later be one of the fortified towns given the status of Huguenot safe havens by the Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (August 1570).

By the time of the French Revolution only a dozen monks remained in the priory, which was sold to private individuals and preserved. An improved highway that was to have been driven through the church was deflected by the report of Prosper Mérimée, the first inspector of monuments (and author of Carmen), who classed it as worth saving in 1840.

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