Lapalisse

History

The first trace of occupation at the place called Lubié or Lubillet predates by several centuries the definitive establishment of the former Lipidiacus (La Palisse), on the banks of the Besbre River. ; Ancient pottery workshop of Lubié At Lubié there is a Gallo-Roman pottery workshop. The style of BANUUS III is one of the most characteristic creations of this workshop. The Chez-Duret site, in the southwest of the commune, was the subject of a preventive excavation in 1996 as part of the development of the bypass by National Route 7. In 1429, Charles, Duke of Bourbon, purchased the seigneurial domain of La Palice from Jeanne de Châtillon and resold it for 6,000 gold écus in 1430 to Jacques I, one of the last two representatives of the Chabannes family, which dates back to the year 1000. This sum was partly financed by the ransoms of English knights captured during the siege of Orléans. Jacques I and his brother Antoine, Count of Dammartin, were among the great leaders who, like Joan of Arc and at her side, contributed to the defeat of the English during the Hundred Years' War. What might the small town of La Palisse have looked like at the beginning of the ? Probably the major works of redevelopment of the city with the razing of the old medieval ramparts of the city and the enlargement of the old castle, left at the beginning of this building revival, to travelers passing through, an impression of disorder and insalubrity? Coming from his native French Flanders, Jacques Lesaige, a wealthy draper merchant from Douai, setting out at Easter 1518 for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, notes in his Memoirs having crossed the small city on the banks of the Besbre: "From Varenne to La Palisse, four leagues. It is a small ugly (layde) and dirty (orde) town. There is a small…

Geography

Lapalisse is located in the eastern part of the Allier department, in the northern part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, near Vichy. The town is situated at the crossroads of several important communication routes, which has historically made it a strategic passage point. Six other communes border Lapalisse: * Barrais-Bussolles * Billezois * Périgny * Saint-Prix * Servilly * Varennes-sur-Tèche The commune is crossed by the Besbre River, which has an average annual flow rate of at this point in its course. This river has shaped the local landscape and has been the source of several historic floods, notably that of 1846 which severely damaged the lower part of the town. In 2010, the climate of the commune was classified as a degraded oceanic climate of the plains of Central and Northern France, according to a study by CNRS based on data covering the period 1971-2000. In 2020, Météo-France published a typology of climates in metropolitan France in which the commune is in a transition zone between the altered oceanic climate and the mountain climate or mountain margin climate and is in the Central and northern foothills of the Massif Central climate region, characterized by dry air in summer and good sunshine. For the period 1971-2000, the average annual temperature was , with an annual thermal amplitude of . The average annual rainfall was , with of precipitation in January and in July. was and the average annual rainfall was . For the future, the commune's climate parameters estimated for 2050 under different scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions can be viewed on a dedicated website published by Météo-France in November 2022.

Most recent

• M 4.2 — 2022-05-09
  5 km SW of Villebret, France
• M 2.6 — 2008-11-16
  4 km N of Saint-Georges-de-Mons, France
• M 2.6 — 2008-09-12
  5 km E of Mont-Dore, France
• M 2.5 — 2008-09-11
  7 km SW of Aydat, France
• M 3 — 2008-09-10
  4 km E of Mont-Dore, France
• M 2.7 — 2008-08-17
  6 km WNW of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, France