Bourbon-l'Archambault

Bourbon-l'Archambault
Bourbon-l'Archambault
Administration
Country	France
Region	Auvergne
Department	Allier
Arrondissement	Moulins
Canton	Bourbon-l'Archambault
Intercommunality	Bocage Bourbonnais
Mayor	Jacky Belien (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	215–321 m (705–1,053 ft) (avg. 260 m or 850 ft)
Land area1	54.84 km2 (21.17 sq mi)
Population2	2,593  (2008)
- Density	47 /km2 (120 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	03036/ 03160
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Bourbon-l'Archambault is a spa town and a commune in the Allier department in Auvergne in central France.

Population

Historical population of Bourbon-l'Archambault

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
Population	2607	2607	2598	2550	2630	2564	2593

Personalities

In 1681, Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Tours, the third daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan died there at the age of seven.

Over three decades later, on 26 May 1707, Mme de Montespan also died in Bourbon-l'Archambault.

In 1915, mathematician André Lichnerowicz was born here (died 1998).

See also

• Communes of the Allier department
• Bourbonnais
• Borvo

References

• INSEE

External links

• Tourist office website (in French)
• Non official website (in French)
• Romanesque art at Bourbon-l'Archambault
• Spa information (in French)
• National Specialty of the Bourbonnais pointer club in Bourbon-l'Archambault (in English and French)