Authon, Loir-et-CherAuthon is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France, next to Vendôme.WWW authon.frFB communeauthonEconomyEconomic activities are mainly agricultural, with some services including tourism. A couple of streams run through the village's territory, including one facetiously named the Danube.PersonalitiesThe village has supplied a resistance hero, François de Brantes, and, in his daughter Anne-Aymone, a wife to former president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The latter is buried in Authon alongside his daughter Jacinte.