Place:Lozère, France

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NameLozère
Alt namesLozeresource: FDA Worksheet
Lozèresource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeDépartement
Coordinates44.5°N 3.5°E
Located inFrance
Also located inLanguedoc-Roussillon, France    
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Lozère is a landlocked department in the region of Occitanie in Southern France, located near the Massif Central, bounded to the northeast by Haute-Loire, to the east by Ardèche, to the south by Gard, to the west by Aveyron, and the northwest by Cantal. It is named after Mont Lozère. With 76,604 inhabitants as of 2019, Lozère is the least populous French department.

History

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Lozère was created in 1790 during the French Revolution, when the whole of France was divided into departments, replacing the old provinces.[1] Lozère was formed from part of the old province of Languedoc.

Pliny's Natural History praised the cheese of Lozère:

The kinds of cheese that are most esteemed at Rome, where the various good things of all nations are to be judged of by comparison, are those that come from the provinces of Nemausus, and more especially the area there of Lesura and Gabalis (Lozère and Gévaudan); but its excellence is only very short-lived, and it must be eaten while it is fresh.

During the period 1764–67, the Beast of Gévaudan, a creature believed to be a wolf, terrorized the general area in the Margeride Mountains of the former province of Gévaudan (nearly identical with the modern Lozère department).

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