Blue, with three horizontal white stripes; at top, three gold fleur-de-lys
The coat-of-arms of the Roux De Lussons

Beyssenac has been a member of the Community of Communes since 1/1/2003.
INSEE registered no. : 19025

The village centre, built around the Norman church, includes an area of older buildings (19th and early 20th-century), an area with more recent buildings (since the 60s) and a village housing estate.

One famous name in the history of Beyssenac:
François Germignac, a Deputy, was the first Chairman of the Département of Corrèze administration, from July 1790 to 1791, following the creation of the Départemental Council by the National Assembly on 22nd December 1789. His name came from the hamlet of Germignac.

• The Norman church dates from the 12th century and was restored in the 14th. It is dedicated to St Médard, with its characteristic stained-glass windows, made from glass cast into cement (and not lead). They were made by the monks from the Abbey at St-Benoît-sur-Loire, in Loiret.

• St Fiacre’s Spring is 100 m from the church, and consists of a stone niche surmounted by an iron cross. Until the 40s, on the Sunday nearest to St Fiacre’s Day (30th August), after Mass, a procession of parishioners would go to the spring to say prayers. Then they would light candles before the statue of St Fiacre in the church. The spring water has the virtues of treating convulsions in children and digestive problems.

• Two typical local ‘oval barns’ with quite specific architecture survive in the hamlets of Germignac and La Varonie. In days gone by, they would have been thatched.

• The site of Laveyrat Bridge is a place of memory for the massacre of the Resistance fighters, on the banks of the River Auvézère, on the borders of Corrèze and Dordogne, near La Papeterie Mill.

Tel : +33 (0)5 55 73 31 77 fax : +33 (0)5 55 73 97 21
e-mail : mairie@beyssenac.com
Website : www.beyssenac.com

Opening hours :
Weekdays 1:30–5:30pm  /  Saturdays 10am–noon
Town Hall secretary: Corinne BEGA