Le Rouget

{{Infobox French commune

|name = Le Rouget

|image = Le Rouget.JPG

|caption = A general view of Le Rouget

|image coat of arms =

|arrondissement = Aurillac

|canton = Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat

|INSEE = 15268

|postal code = 15290

|commune = Le Rouget-Pers

|coordinates = {{coord|44.8553|2.2325|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation m = 600

|elevation min m = 555

|elevation max m = 665

|area km2 = 8.23

|population = 1017

|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}}

}}

Le Rouget ({{IPA|fr|lə ʁuʒɛ}}; Languedocien: Lo Roget) is a former commune in the département of Cantal in south-central France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Le Rouget-Pers.[http://www.cantal.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/RECUEIL_cle28dee1-4.pdf Arrêté préfectoral] 4 December 2015 {{in lang|fr}}

Le Rouget, having grown from a hamlet as a result of coming of the railway, will not be found on many 19th-century maps. It was not granted commune status (and, with it, the right to elect a mayor of its own) until September 1945,[http://archives.cantal.fr/accounts/mnesys_ad15/tmp/export/1258462848wpaPXS.pdf Archive of Cantal]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} about Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat and the creation of Le Rouget. but is today a more important commercial and employment centre than the nearby historic cantonal centres of Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat and Laroquebrou, although it lacks their architectural and historical interest.

A market is held every Sunday morning.