Fleurie () is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.
Medieval charters record Fleurie as Floriacum.
Fleurie AOC is a division of the Beaujolais wine region.
Notable residents
In the 1970s the British Conservative politician and tax fugitive Ernest Marples (1907–78) owned a Fleurie château and vineyard, to which he retired after fleeing from an Inland Revenue investigation in 1975.
Désiré Charnay (1828–1915), an archaeologist specializing in Mayan and Aztec studies
See also Communes of the Rhône department
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