Chervettes

Chervettes (French pronunciation: [ʃɛʁvɛt]) is a former commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. On 1 January 2018, it was merged into the new commune of La Devise.

Chervettes
Part of La Devise
Location of Chervettes
Chervettes Chervettes
Coordinates: 46°03′08″N 0°42′24″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rochefort
Canton	Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Commune	La Devise
Area 1	3.98 km2 (1.54 sq mi)
Population  (2019)	182
• Density	46/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	17380
Elevation	13–32 m (43–105 ft) (avg. 25 m or 82 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	84	—
1968	121	+44.0%
1975	105	−13.2%
1982	103	−1.9%
1990	95	−7.8%
1999	124	+30.5%
2008	128	+3.2%

Geography

The commune was located near Surgères, Rochefort, and Saint-Jean-d'Angély.

Neighboring communes

• Puyrolland

History

An old viticultural commune, Chervettes was marked by an old viticultural properties with a closed heart. Since the outbreak of phylloxera at the end of the 19th century, the commune subsisted three small areas of winery. The church known as Notre-Dame-de-l’Assumption was first constructed in the 15th century. Around the commune, Chiron features an 18th-century built mill.

See also

• Communes of the Charente-Maritime department