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région=Rona-Alpe|
département=Ardèche (''podprefektura'')|
arrondissement=Largentière|
canton=Largentière|
insee=07132|
cp=07710|
maire=Jean-Roger Durand|
mandat=2001-2008|
intercomm=Skupnost občin Val de Ligne|
longitude=04° 17' 39" E|
latitude=44° 32' 37" N|
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alt mini=147 m|
alt maxi=420 m|
hectares=722 |km²=7,22 |
sans=2.046|
date-sans=1999|
dens=988|
date-dens=1999}}

'''Largentière''' (okcitansko ''L'Argentièira'') je kraj in občina v jugovzhodni francoski regiji podprefektura departmaja Ardèche. Leta 1999 je kraj imel 2.046 prebivalcev.

== Geografija ==
Kraj leži v najjugozahodnejšem delu regije, v dolini reke Ligne.

== Administracija ==
thumb|left|200px|Lega okrožja v regiji

Largentière je sedež istoimenskega kantona, v katerega so poleg njegove vključene še občine Montréal, Prunet, Rocles, Uzer in Vinezac s 7.092 prebivalci.

Kraj je tudi sedež okrožja, sestavljenega iz kantonov Joyeuse, Largentière, Montpezat-sous-Bauzon, Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès, Thueyts in Les Vans s 44.264 prebivalci.

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'''Largentière''' (''L'Argentièira'' in commune and sub-prefecture<ref>It claims to be the smallest sub-prefecture in France. ([http://www.ardeche.com/ville_village/largentiere.php Ardeche.com])</ref> of the department in the region in eastern France. It is located in the narrow valley of the Ligne River, approximately ten kilometers southwest of Aubenas.

Its name, adopted in the thirteenth century in place of its more ancient name Segualeriae (Ségualières), refers to the silver mines in the area between the tenth and fifteenth centuries, when the silver-bearing lead ores in intrusive veins in the Largentières sandstone<ref>Guoxiang Chi, Pierre Rheaume, and Kees Schrijver, "The Largentière sandstone Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, Ardeche, France; fluid inclusion and geologic evidence for an epigenetic origin", ''Economic Geology''n'''92'''.1 (February 1997:108-113).
</ref> were exploited under the authority of the Counts of Toulouse and the Bishops of Viviers, whose title ''barons de Largentière'' was linked to the bishopric. 

A busy industrial town in the nineteenth century, when it housed silk mills<ref>''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' 1911.</ref>its principal industry is now tourism.  Its only railroad station was rased in 1982, leaving the town accessible only by autoroute.

Besides its twelfth- to fifteenth-century château, the picturesque town conserves its thirteenth-century church, Nôtre-Dame-des-Pommiers,<ref>"Our Lady of the apple orchards"; an inscription of 1490 records the gift of the stone pulpit in Occitan: ''hieu Pierre Guarnier de Colens ay donat aquesta chadiera al convent''.</ref> its Renaissance hôtel de ville, its ''palais de justice'', and the ''Tour Argentière'' that collected the mines' produce for guarded transport.
 
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