{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox French commune |name = Germigny-l’Exempt |commune status = [[Communes of France|Commune]] |arrondissement = Saint-Amand-Montrond |canton = La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois |INSEE = 18101 |postal code = 18150 |mayor = Olivier Beatrix<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=9 August 2021|language=fr}}</ref> |term = 2020–2026 |intercommunality = |coordinates = {{coord|46|55|05|N|2|53|52|E|display=inline,title}} |elevation m = 200 |elevation min m = 180 |elevation max m = 227 |area km2 = 28.26 |population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}} |population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} |population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} }}
'''Germigny-l’Exempt''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒɛʁmiɲi lɛɡzɑ̃}}) is a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the central French [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Cher (department)|Cher]].
==Geography== A farming area comprising the village and a couple of hamlets situated by the banks of the small Luisant river some {{convert|24|mi|km}} southeast of [[Bourges]] at the junction of departmental routes D100, D15, D78, D43.
==Population== {{Historical populations |align=left |1962|553 |1968|509 |1975|472 |1982|383 |1990|362 |1999|331 |2008|322 |2013|317 |2019|296}} {{clear left}}
==Sights== * The twelfth-century church of [[Notre-Dame de Germigny-l'Exempt|Notre-Dame]], with its exceptionally tall tower-porch, was built after the siege of 1108 by [[Louis VI the Fat]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=LEGEARD |first=Emmanuel |date=September 2021 |title=Le siège de Germigny en Bourbonnais : une page méconnue d'histoire |trans-title= |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03337329/ |language=French |journal=Bulletin de la Société d'Emulation du Bourbonnais |volume=80 |issue=3 |pages=388–404 |doi= |access-date=}}</ref> as a symbol of the [[Capetians|Capetian]] « [[Peace and Truce of God|Pax Dei]] ».<ref>{{cite journal |last=LEGEARD |first=Emmanuel |date=2021 |title=Notre-Dame de Germigny-L'Exempt: un patrimoine à surveiller |trans-title= |url=http://www.lagazettedupatrimoine.fr/files/0a0db1470945772f6c3dbcb396e5198d-267.php |language=French |journal=La Gazette du Patrimoine |volume= |issue=May |pages= |doi= |access-date=}}</ref> The inconographic program of its inner portal of 1215 is inherited from the north porch of the west portal of two churches: [[Laon Cathedral]] and the abbey church in [[Saint-Gilles du Gard]]. The [[Tympanum (architecture)|tympanum]] showing a [[Seat of Wisdom|Sedes Sapientiae]] is meant to celebrate the triumph of the Church (the Virgin being symbolic of the Church) upon heretics who reject the real presence in the [[eucharist]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=LEGEARD |first=Emmanuel |date=February 2021 |title=Saint-Gilles, Laon, Germigny : Iconologie d'une représentation politique de la Vierge dans le "style 1200" |trans-title= |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03138106 |language=French |journal=De Medio Aevo |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=231–240 |doi=10.5209/dmae.73298 |s2cid=234067807 |access-date=|doi-access=free }}</ref> * The chateau of Château-Renaud, dating from the seventeenth century.
==See also== *[[Communes of the Cher department]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book |last=Legeard |first=Emmanuel |date=2022 |title=Germigny-l'Exempt ou les Trois Deniers de Gaspard |trans-title=Germigny-l'Exempt or Gaspard's three coins |url=https://www.germigny.com |language=fr |location=Paris |publisher=L'Harmattan |isbn=978-2-14-027811-2}} {{refend}}
==External links== {{commons category}} *[http://germigny.hautetfort.com/ Photographs of the commune] {{in lang|fr}} *{{Facebook|ndgermignylexempt|Groupement de Sauvegarde de Notre-Dame de Germigny-l’Exempt}} {{in lang|fr}}
{{Cher communes}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Germignylexempt}} [[Category:Communes of Cher (department)]]