Annonay (; Anonai in Occitan ) is a commune in the north of the Ardèche department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southern France.

Henri Charrière (; 16 November 1906, Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès, Ardèche – 29 July 1973 ) was convicted as a murderer by the French courts, and was chiefly known as the author of Papillon, a hugely successful memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana.

Auguste Bravais (; 23 August 1811, Annonay, Ardèche – 30 March 1863, Le Chesnay, France ) was a French physicist, well known for his work in crystallography ( the Bravais lattices, and the Bravais laws ).

Gavòt ( in French Gavot ), spoken in the Western Occitan Alps, around Digne, Sisteron, Gap, Barcelonnette and the upper County of Nice, but also in a part of the Ardèche, is not exactly a subdialect of Provençal, but rather a closely related Occitan dialect, also known as Vivaro-Alpine.

Loire is part of the current administrative region of Rhône-Alpes and is surrounded by the departments of Rhône, Isère, Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, Allier, and Saône-et-Loire.

Dureza, a dark-skinned grape variety from the Ardèche region in France, has all but disappeared from the vineyards, and the preservation of such varieties is a speciality of Montpellier.

Along the Rhône Valley, it is joined on the right bank by Cévennes rivers Eyrieux, Ardèche, Cèze and Gardon or Gard, on the left Alps bank by rivers Isère, Drôme, Ouvèze and Durance.

Lozère is the northernmost part of the current Languedoc-Roussillon region and is surrounded by the departments of Cantal, Haute-Loire, Ardèche, Gard and Aveyron.

The Pont d ' Arc ( French pont = bridge ) is a large natural bridge, located in the Ardèche département in the south of France, 5 km from the town of Vallon-Pont-d ' Arc.

The arch, carved out by the Ardèche River, is wide and high.

It is usually descibed as the natural entrance to the Ardèche Canyon.

Along the Rhone Valley, it is joined on the right ( western ) bank by the rivers Eyrieux, Ardèche, Cèze, and Gardon coming from the Cévennes mountains ; and on the left bank by the rivers Isère ( 350 m³ / s ), Drôme, Ouvèze, and Durance ( 188 m³ / s ) from the Alps.

More recently, " green " and sports tourism is on the rise, with the gorges of the Tarn River, the Ardèche Gorges, as well as the vast preserved expanses of Cévennes, Ardèche, Lauragais, and other sites.

Drôme lies within the region of Rhône-Alpes and is surrounded by the departments of Ardèche, Isère, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Vaucluse.

Vallon-Pont-d ' Arc ( occitan Valon ) is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France.

Its touristic importance largely comes from the fact that it is the departure point for the descent of the gorge of the Ardèche river ( from Pont d ' Arc to Saint-Martin-d ' Ardeche ).

Vallon-Pont-d ' Arc is situated at the threshold of one of the most beautiful tourist sites of France: " les gorges de l ' Ardèche " ( the Ardèche canyon ).

Isère is part of the current region of Rhône-Alpes and is surrounded by the departments of Rhône, Ain, Savoie, Hautes-Alpes, Drôme, Ardèche, and Loire.

The Vivarais, as the Ardèche is still called, takes its name and coat-of-arms from Viviers, which was the capital of the Gaulish tribe of Helvii, part of Gallia Narbonensis, after the destruction of their previous capital at Alba-la-Romaine.

It is a land of great contrasts: at the lowest it is at a mere 40 metres of elevation above sea level at the point at which the Ardèche river flows into the Rhône ( in the south east of the department ) up to 1, 754 metres at Mont Mézenc ( Centre-west ), it is bordered to the east by the length of the Rhône valley for 140 km and to the west by the high plateaus of the Massif Central.

Murals of sorts date to Upper Paleolithic times such as the paintings in the Chauvet Cave in Ardèche department of southern France ( around 30, 000 BC ).

Since the 1860s, the Ardèche economy has been split between the prosperous Rhône valley and the relatively poor and mountainous Haut Vivarais on the western side of the department.

* Communes of the Ardèche department

* Saint-Étienne-de-Boulogne, in the Ardèche department

* Saint-Étienne-de-Fontbellon, in the Ardèche department

* Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès, in the Ardèche department

* Saint-Étienne-de-Serre, in the Ardèche department

* Saint-Étienne-de-Valoux, in the Ardèche department

Bogy is a commune of the Ardèche department in southern France.

* Communes of the Ardèche department

Cruas is a commune by the Rhône River in the Ardèche department in southern France.

* Communes of the Ardèche department

It is the most populous commune in the Ardèche department, although it is not the capital, which resides in the smaller town of Privas.

* Communes of the Ardèche department

* Mirabel, Ardèche, a commune in the Ardèche department

* Vogüé, a village in Ardèche department, France

Saint-Marcel-lès-Annonay is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France.

* Communes of the Ardèche department

Talencieux is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France.

The Cévennes () are a range of mountains in south-central France, covering parts of the départements of Ardèche, Gard, Hérault and Lozère.

The Ardèche () is a 125 km long river in south-central France, a right-bank tributary of the River Rhône.