Tauriers (; ) is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France.Commune de Tauriers (07318), INSEE
History 1790: Tauriers was detached from Chassiers. 1 December 1974 : Tauriers attached to Largentière.Modifications aux circonscriptions administratives territoriales (fusion de communes), Journal officiel de la République française n° 0278, 28 November 1974, p. 11900. 1 January 1989 : Tauriers was re-established as an independent commune.Arrêté du 22 décembre 1988 portant modification aux circonscriptions administratives territoriales (création de commune), Journal officiel de la République française n° 0021, 25 January 1989, p. 1108.
Population
Its inhabitants are called Taurierois (male) and Taurieroises (female) in French.
People linked to the commune Michel Sima (1912–1987), Polish sculptor, photographer and ceramicist best known for his photographic portraits of PicassoJean-Louis Andral, Pierre Daix, Picasso : la Joie de Vivre (1946–1949), Skira, 2007 p.232 to p.271 and of almost all the artists of the School of Paris,Erika Billeter, Michel Sima (Ateliers d'artiste), Gand, éditions Snoeck, 2008 p.201 to p.203 lived and died in Tauriers. Werner Reinisch (1930), painter, engraver. Françoise Dasque (1960), actress. Walked between 2010 and 2012 from Tauriers to China and Japan. Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Duke of Albufera, (1770–1826), Marshal of the Empire, Pair de France, French soldier during Revolution and the Empire.
See also Communes of the Ardèche department
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