In 1889, Leo Testut announced that the skeleton was of a new race, which he called the "Chancelade race", the ancestor of the Eskimo.
Chancelade Abbey (fr: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Chancelade) was an Augustinian monastery in Chancelade in the Dordogne, founded in 1129.
June 1987, start of the French News newspaper, (Known as "The News" back then) in Chancelade.