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Chervettes

Chervettes (French pronunciation: [ʃɛʁvɛt]) is a former commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. On 1 January 2018, it was merged into the new commune of La Devise.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
196284—    
1968121+44.0%
1975105−13.2%
1982103−1.9%
199095−7.8%
1999124+30.5%
2008128+3.2%

Geography

The commune was located near Surgères, Rochefort, and Saint-Jean-d'Angély.

Neighboring communes

History

An old viticultural commune, Chervettes was marked by an old viticultural properties with a closed heart. Since the outbreak of phylloxera at the end of the 19th century, the commune subsisted three small areas of winery. The church known as Notre-Dame-de-l’Assumption was first constructed in the 15th century. Around the commune, Chiron features an 18th-century built mill.

See also

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