Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier


Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France. It was besieged during the Hundred Years' War.
Located between the Loire and Allier, the town has a rich and powerful history, but is a little forgotten today because of its "relative" road isolation and lack of tourist infrastructure. Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier is close to Magny-Cours and its racing circuit which hosted the Grand Prix de France Formula 1 from 1991 to 2008.

History

On November 4, 1422 the bailiwick of Saint-Pierre rendered a sentence, compelling the inhabitants of the land of Poussery at the end of Montaron to ensure the lookout and guard at the castle Poussery, as requested by the lord of the place: Gaucher Courvol. This bailiwick rendered to the son of the latter, Philibert de Courvol, another sentence on the 25th of March, 1451, authorizing him to pass the Ruaux stream in his meadow of Chaulgy.
The city is stormed, then released by Joan of Arc on November 4, 1429.
It was chief town of district from 1790 to 1795.
During the revolutionary period of the National Convention, the municipality provisionally bore the names of Brutus-la-Vallée, Brutus-le-Magnanime and Brutus-le-Moutier.

Demographics

The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the censuses of the population carried out in the commune since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the communes are published annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual collection of information, successively covering all municipal territories over a period of five years. For municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey of the whole population is carried out every five years, the legal populations of the intermediate years being estimated by interpolation or extrapolation. For the commune, the first comprehensive census within the framework of the new system was carried out in 2005.
In 2015, the municipality had 1,954 inhabitants a decrease of 2.79% from 2010.