# Beynat
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{{Infobox French commune
|name = Beynat
|commune status = [Commune](/source/Communes_of_France)
|image = Beynat2.jpg
|caption = Town hall
|image coat of arms = Blason_ville_fr_Beynat_(Corrèze).svg
|arrondissement = Brive-la-Gaillarde
|canton = Midi Corrézien
|INSEE = 19023
|postal code = 19190
|mayor = Jean-Michel Monteil[{{Cite news |date=27 March 2026 |title=Beynat - Une second mandat de maire pour Jean-Michel Monteil |work=La Vie Correzienne |pages=39 |language=fr}}][{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=5 May 2026|language=fr}}]
|term = 2026–32
|intercommunality = Midi Corrézien
|coordinates = {{coord|45.1239|1.7239|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation min m = 189
|elevation max m = 581
|area km2 = 34.84
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}
'''Beynat''' ({{IPA|fr|bɛna}}; {{langx|oc|Béinat}}) is a [commune](/source/Communes_of_France) of the [Corrèze](/source/Corr%C3%A8ze) [department](/source/Departments_of_France) in central [France](/source/France).
==History==
The commune was found to have been inhabited during the [Merovingian period](/source/Merovingian_dynasty) with discovery of coinage from that period.[{{rp|34}} During the end of the [Carolingian period](/source/Carolingian_dynasty), the 900s, a [viguerie](/source/viguerie) controlled the commune.][{{rp|34}} By the 1200s, the commune was under the control of the Viscounts of Turenne with a castle near the church.][{{rp|34}} A military commandery, the [Order of Malta](/source/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta) settled at the Puy de Noix.][{{rp|34}}
On April 2, 1944, the Brehmer division rounded up 35 people who were deported.
On July 29, 1944, in the village of Perrier, a group of maquisards was ambushed by a motorized company of the 95th German Security Regiment.][{{Cite web |date=18 January 2015 |title=Le journaL municipaL de Beynat |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http://www.beynat.fr/la-cle-des-champs.html?file=files/beynat/documents/la-cle-des-champs.pdf/index.html#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |access-date=2025-11-29 |website=archive.wikiwix.com}}]
==Population==
{{Historical populations
|align=left
|1962|1408
|1968|1336
|1975|1132
|1982|1101
|1990|1068
|1999|1152
|2008|1233
}}
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==Local culture and heritage==
===Natural heritage===
* L'étang de Miel.[{{Cite book |title=Corrèze. Vallée de la Dordogne |publisher=Les Éditions du Laquet |isbn=2-91033377-9 |location=Martel |language=fr}}]{{rp|34}}
===Cultural heritage===
* The [dolmen](/source/dolmen) known as the fairies' hut (Cabane de la Fée) is located near the hamlet of Brugeilles.[{{rp|34}} Classified as a historic monument in 1910.][{{Cite web |title=Dolmen dit La Cabane de la Fée |url=https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/PA00099684?mainSearch=%22cabane%20des%20f%C3%A9es%22&ou=%5B%22Beynat%22%5D&last_view=%22list%22&idQuery=%222bad5-fa2-016b-0b5-c326e4c314f3%22 |access-date=2025-11-28 |website=pop.culture.gouv.fr}}]
* L'église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens, a church from the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, houses many paintings and objects. including a painting by Charles-Henri Michel.
* During the 1960s and 1970s, the Château de Sabeau was a holiday camp centre belonging to the Astra Calvé company, which sold the castle in 1985. It is now owned by Edencourt SA, a real estate investment company. Around this castle, a project turned it into a holiday village, 60% of the accommodation would be accessible to people with reduced mobility. The castle opened its doors on 4 August 2007.
* In the village of Perrier, there is a monument in honour of young [French Resistance](/source/French_Resistance) members who fell in June 1944.
* Puy de Noix, former [Knights Templar](/source/Knights_Templar) and then Hospitaller commandery.
===Personalities linked to the commune===
* [Pierre Dumoulin-Borie](/source/Pierre_Dumoulin-Borie) (1808-1838), priest of the foreign missions of Paris, executed in [Đồng Hới](/source/%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng_H%E1%BB%9Bi), Tonkin, was canonized in 1988.
* François Marty (1901-1944), priest, prison chaplain and resistance fighter.
* Victor Feltrin (1909-1993) was a sculptor who lived in the commune.
* [Kurt Cobain](/source/Kurt_Cobain) (1967-1994) before becoming famous, the singer spent several summer stays during his childhood with his grandparents in the town.[{{Cite web |title=KC beynat.pdf |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rS0ej6hbDm0VqkVSdqzAHHHl0gVRBIsx/view?usp=embed_facebook |access-date=2025-11-28 |website=Google Docs}}]
==See also==
*[Communes of the Corrèze department](/source/Communes_of_the_Corr%C3%A8ze_department)
==References==
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