Chavenon (; ) is a commune in the Allier department in Auvergne in central France.
History The former name is Ecclesia de Cavenone,Quoted for the first time as Ecclesia de Cavenone by Nicolas de Nicolay 1517-1583. the name of a monastery which was destroyed in the French Revolution.
Population
Transportation Chavenon station, on the railway between Montluçon and Moulins, was closed for passengers in 1972.
Government The following table shows mayors of Chavenon.
Name Start End Bernard Madet 2001 2008 Jean-Pierre Delsaux 2008 2014 François Tarian 2014 current
Sights St Martin's Church, Chavenon, Eglise Saint-Martin a 12th-century building Castle Montgeorges, a 16th-century building Château de Saint-Hubert, a 19th-century mansion and now a Russian orthodox monastery with a park drawn by the landscape gardener François-Marie Treyve Watermill of Veaux on the river Aumance (the last one on this French river). The Aumance is a tributary of the Cher. This mill is on the Cassini map. Manor of Sceauve, which is a former fief.
Personalities Born in Chavenon: Cécile Desliens (1853–1937), painter Marie Desliens (1856–1938), painter
Heraldry
See also Bourbonnais Communes of the Allier department
References
External links
Official site Versailles national school of landscape architecture