Le Chaffaut-Saint-Jurson
Le Chaffaut-St-Jurson (French pronunciation: [lə ʃafo sɛ̃ ʒyʁsɔ̃]; Occitan: Lo Chafauc e Sant Jurson) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. GeographyThe village is located at an altitude of 584 meters, in the valley of the Bléone. The differents commune adjacent to Le Chauffaut-Saint-Jurson are Aiglun, Digne-les-Bains, Châteauredon, Mézel, Saint-Jeannet, Malijai, Mirabeau, Mallemoisson. ToponymyThe locality of Chaffaut appeared for the first time in the texts between 1064 and 1079 (in Kadalfucho). The term comes from the north-occitan translating cadalfac, naming a house with an outside staircase and a balcony according to Ernest Nègre, from catafalicum, meaning scaffold or siege tower according to Bénédicte and Jean-Jacques Fénié. Saint-Jurson is a deformation of the name of the holy patron saint of the church, saint Georges, apostle of the Velay. Population
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