Lozère (French pronunciation: ​[lɔzɛʁ]; Occitan: Losera) is a department in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées in southern France near the Massif Central. It is named after Mont Lozère.

History

Lozère was created in 1790 during the French Revolution, when the whole of France was divided into departments, replacing the old provinces. Lozère was formed with part of the old province of Languedoc.

Les Sources and Hautes-Cèvennes were two other names proposed for this department but they were not accepted.

Pliny's Natural History praised the cheese of Lozère:

During the period 1764-67, the Beast of Gévaudan was a creature that terrorized the general area of the former province of Gévaudan, with nearly identical borders to today's Lozère, in the Margeride Mountains.

Geography

Lozère has an area of 5,166.9 km² (1,995 sq mi). It is the northernmost department of the current Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées region and is surrounded by 5 departments belonging to 2 regions: Cantal, Haute-Loire and Ardèche departments of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, and Gard and Aveyron departments of the Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées region.

Lozère is one of the four RER B station of Palaiseau, near Paris, in France, famous for being École polytechnique's station.

It serves École polytechnique through a path with approximately 300 stairs, widely known as the "path to glory" among French undergraduate students, in reference to this university's motto : " For Homeland, Science and Glory".

Other stations of Palaiseau

Coordinates: 48°42′22″N 2°12′42″E / 48.70611°N 2.21167°E / 48.70611; 2.21167