Chasseradès

{{Infobox French commune

|name = Chasseradès

|image = Chasseradès (Lozère, Fr) village, église et clocher de tourmente.JPG

|caption = The church tower and surrounding buildings, in Chasseradès

|image coat of arms =

|arrondissement = Mende

|canton = Saint-Étienne-du-Valdonnez

|commune = Mont Lozère et Goulet

|INSEE = 48040

|postal code = 48250

|coordinates = {{coord|44.5519|3.8267|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation m = 1171

|elevation min m = 951

|elevation max m = 1482

|area km2 = 61.93

|population = 152

|population date = 2022

|population footnotes = {{cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/8290591/ensemble.pdf|title=Populations de référence 2022|language=fr|trans-title=Reference populations 2022|publisher=INSEE|date=December 2024}}

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Chasseradès ({{IPA|fr|ʃasʁadɛs}}; {{langx|oc|Chassaradés}}) is a former commune in the Lozère department in southern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mont Lozère et Goulet.[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2016/5/23/INTB1616870A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral] 23 May 2016 {{in lang|fr}} Its population was 152 in 2022.

The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson stayed at an inn in the village of Chasseradès on the night of 27 September 1878, as recounted in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.{{cite wikisource |chapter=Upper Gévaudan (Continued) |wslink=Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes |plaintitle=Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes |wspage=106 |last=Stevenson |first=Robert Louis |authorlink=Robert Louis Stevenson |origyear=1879 |date=1905 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |location=New York}} The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (GR 70), a popular long-distance path following Stevenson's approximate route, runs through the village.{{cite book |title=The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail |publisher=Cicerone |edition=2nd |date=2007 |first=Alan |last=Castle |isbn=978-1-85284-511-7 |pages=122–126}}

Geography

The commune is traversed by the river Chassezac.

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