La Porcherie

Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Location of La Porcherie

(2020–2026) Michel Mouret^[1]Area

31.34 km² (12.10 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

505 • Density16/km² (42/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

87120 /87380

Elevation399–539 m (1,309–1,768 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

La Porcherie (French pronunciation: [la pɔʁʃəʁˈi]; Occitan: La Porcharia) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. La Porcherie station has rail connections to Brive-la-Gaillarde and Limoges.

Notable people

Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (8 June 1851 – 31 December 1940): French physician and physicist, born in Château de la Borie, in La Porcherie; inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the 19th century.^[3]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Lance Day; Ian McNeil, eds. (1998). Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. London: Taylor & Francis. p. 45. ISBN 0-203-02829-5.