Le Blanc

For other uses, see Le Blanc (disambiguation).

Le Blanc
Château de Naillac
Coat of arms
Le Blanc
Location within Centre-Val de Loire region  Le Blanc
Coordinates: 46°38′04″N 1°03′49″E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre
Arrondissement	Le Blanc
Canton	Le Blanc
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Paul Chanteguet
Area1	57.61 km2 (22.24 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	6,946
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	36018 / 36300
Elevation	72–140 m (236–459 ft) (avg. 120 m or 390 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Le Blanc (French pronunciation: ​[lə blɑ̃]) is a commune and a sub-prefecture of the Indre department in central France.

Geography

Le Blanc is the main city of the Parc naturel régional de la Brenne, on the banks of the Creuse River.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	4,780	—
1800	4,723	−1.2%
1806	3,662	−22.5%
1821	4,452	+21.6%
1831	4,804	+7.9%
1836	5,095	+6.1%
1841	5,290	+3.8%
1846	6,075	+14.8%
1851	6,788	+11.7%
1856	5,731	−15.6%
1861	5,882	+2.6%
1866	5,956	+1.3%
1872	5,709	−4.1%
1876	6,122	+7.2%
1881	6,558	+7.1%
1886	7,140	+8.9%
1891	7,389	+3.5%
1896	6,764	−8.5%
1901	6,663	−1.5%
1906	6,520	−2.1%
1911	6,493	−0.4%
1921	5,284	−18.6%
1926	5,511	+4.3%
1931	5,426	−1.5%
1936	5,789	+6.7%
1946	6,719	+16.1%
1954	6,427	−4.3%
1962	6,402	−0.4%
1968	6,767	+5.7%
1975	8,024	+18.6%
1982	7,769	−3.2%
1990	7,361	−5.3%
1999	6,995	−5.0%
2009	6,946	−0.7%

Facilities

Near Le Blanc, there is a VLF-transmitter of French Navy. It transmits messages on 18.3 kHz and 21.7 kHz to submerged submarines

See also

• Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
• Communes of the Indre department
• Marcel Gaumont. Sculptor of war memorial

References

• INSEE