Le Puy, Gironde

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Le Puy
Commune
Town hall
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 44°39′43″N 0°04′26″E / 44.6619°N 0.0739°E / 44.6619; 0.0739Coordinates: 44°39′43″N 0°04′26″E / 44.6619°N 0.0739°E / 44.6619; 0.0739
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Langon
Canton	Le Réolais et Les Bastides
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Eric Fellet
Area 1	8.15 km2 (3.15 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	406
• Density	50/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	33345 /33580
Elevation	18–115 m (59–377 ft) (avg. 27 m or 89 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Puy is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Le Puy lies 65 km (40 mi) from Bordeaux on the intersection of the D15 and the D16 and 1 km (0.62 mi) from Monségur across the river Dropt.

Economy[]

The economy is agricultural, with wheat, sunflowers and soya being grown in recent years to complement the more traditional plums and tobacco.

Church Sainte-Anne of Le Puy

Town hall of Le Puy

The locality produces the famous Entre deux mers wine.

Mill reservoirs can provide good fishing for roach, carp and pike.

The region is well known for its cèpes (boletus mushroom).

Geography[]

The town lies in the Dropt basin which covers nearly 1,500 km² (580 sq mi) in Guyenne, from Quercy to the Bordelais. The river is an affluent of the right bank of the Gironde.

The alluvial plain of the Dropt is characterized by boulbène (a soil composed of clay and sand) terraces, rising to foothills of molasse (chalky sandstone sedimentary deposits) with a few hillocks or the edges of chalky plateaus.

History[]

The town was a halting place on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

The Sisters of St. Joseph were founded in Le Puy in 1650 by Jesuit Priest Jean Pierre Medaille.

The town lost 10 soldiers during World War I - see:

• [1]

Population[]

Its inhabitants are known as Puylots.

Sights[]

• Valley of the Dropt industrial dairy 1945. Manufactures butter and milk powder;
• Archives record three windmills at Saint-Batz;
• Parish church of Saint Anne;
• Friday market in Monségur, a 13th-century bastide (walled town).

See also[]

• Communes of the Gironde department

References[]

External links (all sites in French, unless otherwise indicated)[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Puy (Gironde).

• Valley of the Dropt
• Financial Data for Le Puy from the Ministry of the Economy, Finances and Industry
• Tax information for Le Puy (in English)
• Closest communes to Le Puy
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Le Puy on Villorama site

Map links[]

• Map and list of communes of Gironde
• Map of Le Puy on the Institut Géographique National site^{[dead link]}
• Le Puy on the Cassini map