Cosnac

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Cosnac
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Cosnac
Cosnac Location within France Show map of France Cosnac Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine Show map of Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Coordinates: 45°08′05″N 1°35′11″E / 45.1347°N 1.5864°E / 45.1347; 1.5864
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Corrèze
Arrondissement	Brive-la-Gaillarde
Canton	Brive-la-Gaillarde-3
Intercommunality	CA Bassin de Brive
Government
• Mayor (2026–2032)	Gérard Soler
Area 1	19.98 km2 (7.71 sq mi)
Elevation	214 m (702 ft)
Highest elevation	381 m (1,250 ft)
Lowest elevation	134 m (440 ft)
Population  (2023)	3,044
• Density	152.4/km2 (394.6/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	19063 /19360
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Cosnac (French pronunciation: [konak]) is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France. It belongs to the Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive. The commune is located just east of Brive-la-Gaillarde, a sub-prefecture of the Corrèze, the two communes being bordering.

Its inhabitants are called Cosnacois.

History

The first mention of Cosnac is in 913 and again 969 as a parish in the Cartulary of the Abbey of Tulle. The rise of the lords of Cosnac appear more prominently between 1250 to 1316 when they repurchased fiefs from the lords of Turenne and Malemort. The current church was built around 1300 as was the first mention of a chateau on the site. The de Cosnac family was admitted into the Honneurs de la Cour on 10 April 1782 recognising it as an ancient family.

During the French Revolution the village was temporally renamed L'Égalité. The Cosnac family became émigré's but eventually returned. The chateau was eventually bought by the De Chalup family but by the 1960s, the chateau had been abandoned. Eventually it was bought by investors and turned into private apartments.

Population

Local culture and heritage

Notable persons

• Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis (born in Cosnac in 1757 - died in Seraincourt in 1808), physician, physiologist and philosopher.
• Daniel de Cosnac (1628-1708) - clergyman, archbishop of Aix.
• Bertrand de Cosnac (c.1310-1374) - bishop of Lombez, Saint-Bertrand de Comminges and then of Tulle, jurist, treasurer and papal legate, cardinal with the title of Saint-Marcel (1371-1374), known as the cardinal of Comminges.
• Thérèse Menot (born in Cosnac in 1923) - resistance fighter deported to Ravensbrück.

See also

• Communes of the Corrèze department

References

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