Arcenant
Commune in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Commune in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arcenant (French pronunciation: [aʁsənɑ̃]) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.
Arcenant | |
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Coordinates: 47°08′25″N 4°50′48″E | |
Country | France |
Region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
Department | Côte-d'Or |
Arrondissement | Beaune |
Canton | Nuits-Saint-Georges |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Jean-Paul Sérafin[1] |
Area 1 | 10.12 km2 (3.91 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 503 |
• Density | 50/km2 (130/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 21017 /21700 |
Elevation | 305–591 m (1,001–1,939 ft) (avg. 337 m or 1,106 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Located in the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits, between Dijon and Beaune, Arcenant is 9 km west of Nuits-Saint-Georges and 16 km north of Beaune. Access to the commune is by the D25 road from Meuilley in the east passing through the village and continuing to join the D18 just west of the commune. The commune is heavily forested with some areas of farmland around the village and in the east.
The Raccordon rises west of the village and flows east through the village and on to join the Meuzin east of Meuilly.[3]
On 15 June 1944 German troops together with men from the French Milice attacked a hundred Maquis resistance fighters holed up in a place called La Grotte (The Cave). Fighting resulted in 39 dead attackers and 6 dead Maquis with 4 wounded. The six dead were: Serge Boillereau, Ferruccio Borillo, Louis Evrard, Jean Fiorese, Jean Poulet, and André Rebill. This feat of arms continues to be celebrated each year on the site of the battle.[4]
List of Successive Mayors[5]
From | To | Name |
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2001 | 2026 | Jean-Paul Sérafin |
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arcenantais or Arcenantaises in French.[6]
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Source: EHESS[7] and INSEE[8] |
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