Germigny-l’Exempt (French pronunciation: [ʒɛʁmiɲi lɛɡzɑ̃]) is a commune in the central French department of Cher.

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Germigny-l’Exempt
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Coordinates: 46°55′05″N 2°53′52″E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Cher
Arrondissement	Saint-Amand-Montrond
Canton	La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Olivier Beatrix[1]
Area 1	28.26 km2 (10.91 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	291
• Density	10/km2 (27/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	18101 /18150
Elevation	180–227 m (591–745 ft) (avg. 200 m or 660 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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A farming area comprising the village and a couple of hamlets situated by the banks of the small Luisant river some 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Bourges at the junction of departmental routes D100, D15, D78, D43.

• The twelfth-century church of Notre-Dame, with its exceptionally tall tower-porch, was built after the siege of 1108 by Louis VI the Fat^[3] as a symbol of the Capetian « Pax Dei ».^[4] The inconographic program of its inner portal of 1215 is inherited from the north porch of the west portal of two churches: Laon Cathedral and the abbey church in Saint-Gilles du Gard. The tympanum showing a Sedes Sapientiae is meant to celebrate the triumph of the Church (the Virgin being symbolic of the Church) upon heretics who reject the real presence in the eucharist.^[5]
• The chateau of Château-Renaud, dating from the seventeenth century.

• Communes of the Cher department