Saint-Privat-du-Fau

Commune in Occitania, France

Location of Saint-Privat-du-Fau

(2020–2026) Jean-Claude Laurent^[1]Area

22.16 km² (8.56 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

111 • Density5.0/km² (13/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

48179 /48140

Elevation879–1,417 m (2,884–4,649 ft)
(avg. 1,100 m or 3,600 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Privat-du-Fau (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pʁiva dy fo]; Occitan: Sent Privat del Fau) is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.^[3]

Notable people

Augustin Trébuchon (30 May 1878 – 11 November 1918) was the last French soldier killed during the First World War.^[4] He was a shepherd in Saint-Privat-du-Fau when he was mobilised in 1914.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ John Hayes-Fisher (29 October 2008). "The last soldiers to die in World War I". BBC Magazine. Retrieved 24 March 2020. At 10.45 another 40-year-old soldier, Frenchman Augustin Trebuchon, was taking a message to troops by the River Meuse saying that soup would be served at 11.30 after the peace, when he too was killed.