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==Notable people==
[[Claude-Jean Allouez]] (1622–1689) was born in Saint-Didier-en-Velay. He was a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] missionary and explorer in [[North America]] who is said to have converted ten thousand [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org |title=Allouez, Claude Jean (1622-1689) |publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society |access-date=1 October 2015}}</ref> The town of [[Allouez, Wisconsin]] is named after him.<ref>{{cite book |author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company |title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA166 |year=1908 |page=166}}</ref> The de Polignac family has its historic seat in the department, and various descendants of [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|General Lafayette]] were senators for this region in the nineteenth century. The black metal band Peste Noire comes from the city La Chaise-Dieu. The [[Château de Chavaniac]], located in the commune, was the birthplace of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette in 1757. Originally named Chavaniac, the commune was renamed Chavaniac-Lafayette in 1884 in honor of its most famous resident.