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Lac de Fabrèges

Lake

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ3215438 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lac de Fabrèges is a lake in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. At an elevation of 1241 m, its surface area is 0.54 km2.

Editorial summary

“Lac de Fabrèges” enters the record as lake. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fabrèges and Lake can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1241—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fabrèges and Lake.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Lac de Fabrèges” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fabrèges and Lake provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3215438. Authority coordinates are 42.875, -0.397. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1241.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Lac de Fabrèges”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lac de Fabrèges primary sources, Lac de Fabrèges archive and Fabrèges research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Lac de Fabrèges”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lac de Fabrèges” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.