Janaillat (; ) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.
Geography A farming area comprising the village and several small hamlets situated by the banks of the small Leyrenne river, some southwest of Guéret at the junction of the D10, D50 and the D61 roads.
Population
Sights The church of St. Saturnine, dating from the nineteenth century. The ruins of a feudal castle at the hamlet of Soliers. A fifteenth-century chapel.
International relations Janaillat is twinned with: Ennery, Moselle, France, since 1994
Personalities The poet François Tristan l'Hermite was born here at the castle in 1601.
See also Communes of the Creuse department
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