The most populous is Nord ( 2, 550, 000 ) and the least populous is Lozère ( 74, 000 ).

Lozère (; ), is a department in southeast France near the Massif Central, named after Mont Lozère.

Lozère is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790.

The geography of Lozère is complicated, covering four mountain ranges.

The department also contains numerous rivers, above and below ground, including the Tarn, whose source is on Mont Lozère, and which flows through the Gorges du Tarn in the Causses.

On the General Council of Lozère a majority is held by the right, with 16 councillors to the left's 9.

The main activities are farming and tourism, even though there is barely any agricultural farming in Lozère due to poor soil quality.

Lozère is the least populated French department.

Lozère is considered one of the best areas in France for trout fishing.

It is surrounded by the départements of Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot, Hérault, Gard, Lozère, and Cantal.

mile ( plain of Toulouse ), and the hilly and mountainous interior where density is extremely low, the Cévennes area in the south of Lozère having one of the lowest densities of Europe with only 7. 4 inhabitants per km² ( 19 inh.

The department, corresponding to the ancient province of Vivarais, is part of the current region of Rhône-Alpes ( Rôno-Arpes in Arpitan ), of the administrative division of Languedoc and is surrounded by the French departments of Drôme,: Vaucluse,: Gard,: Lozère,: Haute-Loire,: Loire and Isère.

Gard is part of the region of Languedoc-Roussillon and is surrounded by the departments of Hérault, Lozère, Aveyron, Bouches-du-Rhône, Vaucluse, and Ardèche.

The cheese is produced throughout the département of Aveyron and part of the nearby départements of Aude, Lozère, Gard, Hérault and Tarn.

He is buried in the cemetery of the village of Saint-André-Capcèze ( in the Lozère ).

However, in old " clerical " Catholic rural areas, such as parts of Lozère or Cantal, it is very strong, as was the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) in its hey day.

It is located mainly in the départements of Lozère and Gard, and covers some parts of Ardèche and Aveyron.

Mont Lozère is the highest peak in the area, reaching 1, 699 metres.

Palaiseau is served by 3 stations on Paris RER line B: Palaiseau, Palaiseau – Villebon and Lozère ( this last station is the closest to the famous École Polytechnique ).

He was born in 1310 in the Castle of Grizac in the French region of Languedoc ( today part of the commune of Le Pont-de-Montvert, department of Lozère ), the son of William de Grimoard, Lord of Bellegarde, and of Amphélise de Montferrand.

Lozère contains a part of the Cévennes National Park.

At some times it even included the province of Agenais ( now eastern half of the of Lot-et-Garonne ) to the west of Languedoc, the province of Gévaudan ( now of Lozère ), the province of Velay ( now the central and eastern part of the of Haute-Loire ), the southern part of the province of Vivarais ( now the southern part of the of Ardèche ), and even all the northern half of Provence.

* 68. 7 % of Languedoc-Roussillon was formerly part the province of Languedoc: the departments of Hérault, Gard, Aude, the extreme south and extreme east of Lozère, and the extreme north of Pyrénées-Orientales.

The following départements are generally considered as part of the Massif Central: Allier, Ardèche, Aude, Aveyron, Cantal, Corrèze, Creuse, Gard, Haute-Loire, Haute-Vienne, Hérault, Loire, Lot, Lozère, Puy-de-Dôme, Rhône and Tarn.

* Southern Auvergnat ( sud-auvergnat, also haut-auvergnat ) spoken in Cantal, Haute-Loire ( with a part of Ardèche and most of Lozère ).

* Boisset, a village part of the commune of Sainte-Enimie, in the Lozère département

The Beast of Gévaudan (;, ) is a name given to man-eating wolf-like animals alleged to have terrorized the former province of Gévaudan ( modern day département of Lozère and part of Haute-Loire ), in the Margeride Mountains in south-central France from 1764 to 1767 over an area stretching.

The Tarn runs in a roughly westerly direction, from its source at an altitude of 1, 550 m on Mont Lozère in the Cévennes mountains ( part of the Massif Central ), through the deep gorges and canyons of the Gorges du Tarn ( that cuts through the Causse du Larzac ), to Moissac in Tarn-et-Garonne, where it joins the Garonne downstream from the centre of town.

* 55. 5 % of its former territory lies in the Languedoc-Roussillon région, capital city Montpellier, covering the départements of: Gard,: Hérault,: Aude,: Lozère, and the extreme-north of Pyrénées-Orientales, which account for 86. 5 % of the territory of Languedoc-Roussillon.

Landscape in Lozère, Languedoc-Roussillon

* 17. 9 % of Languedoc-Roussillon was formerly the province of Gévaudan: Lozère department.

Aligot is a dish traditionally made in L ' Aubrac ( Aveyron, Cantal, Lozère, Midi-Pyrénées ) region in southern Massif Central of France made from melted cheese blended into mashed potatoes, often with some garlic.

* Maquis de Lozère directed by the German antifascist Otto Kühne

This trend has also been observed in Catholic departments such as Lozère, Cantal and Haute-Loire ( though the Socialists were already strong in secular logging areas ).

Nicolas Sarkozy performed relatively poorly in departments with a large share of moderate Christian democratic ( often centrist or centre-right ) voters, such as Lozère where the Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal performed better ( 44. 3 %) than François Mitterrand had in his 1988 left-wing landslide ( 43. 1 %).

* The Western French longère or maison longue from Lower Brittany, Normandy, Mayenne, Anjou, ( also in the Cantal, Lozère and the Pyrenees Ariege ) is very similar to the western British type with shared livestock quarters and central drain.

If this low-pressure area moves back toward the southeast, the mistral will quickly clear the air and the good weather will return ; but if the cold-weather front continues to approach the land, bad weather will continue for several days in the entire Mediterranean basin, sometimes transforming into what French meteorologists call an épisode cévenol, a succession of torrential rains and floods, particularly in the areas west of the Rhone Valley: the Ardèche, the Gard, Hérault and Lozère.

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

In the period of Roman Gaul, Gaulish tribes called Gabalians ( Lozère ) and Rutènians ( Aveyron ) occupied the area.

At Alba Augusta ( Alba-la-Romaine ) the devastation was so complete, that the Christian bishop retired to Viviers, but in Gregory's account at Mende in Lozère, also deep in the heart of Gaul, bishop Privatus was forced to sacrifice to idols in the very cave where he was later venerated.

Doline in the causses | causse de Sauveterre, Lozère, France.

The Beast of Gévaudan terrorized the general area of the former province of Gévaudan, now called Lozère, in south-central France.

During 2002, Prost spent time with his family and competed in eight bicycle races, finishing third in the Granite – Mont Lozère.

The Beast of Gévaudan was a creature that terrorized the general area of the former province of Gévaudan, with nearly identical borders to today's Lozère, in the Margeride Mountains, in the general timeframe of 1764 to 1767.

The Causses are a series of very dry calcium plateaus in the south-west, and the south-east contains the Cévennes, which include the highest point in the department, the granite Mont Lozère at 1, 702m.

Lozère elects one Deputy to the National Assembly and one Senator to the Palace of Luxembourg.

Lozère has a surface area of 5, 167 km2.

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