Alrance

Alrance
Commune
The town hall and church in Alrance
Location of Alrance
Alrance Alrance
Coordinates: 44°07′57″N 2°41′03″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Aveyron
Arrondissement	Millau
Canton	Raspes et Lévezou
Intercommunality	Lévézou Pareloup
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Jean-Pierre Drulhe
Area 1	35.43 km2 (13.68 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	339
• Density	9.6/km2 (25/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	12006 /12430
Elevation	719–971 m (2,359–3,186 ft) (avg. 735 m or 2,411 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Alrance is a commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of southern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alrançais or Alrançaises

Geography

Alrance is located some 30 km west of Millau and about 50 km north-east of Albi. The commune can be accessed by the D56 road which runs north-east from Durenque and intersects the road D25 in the commune. It continues north through the commune to Arvieu. The D25 comes south-east from Salmiech through most of the length of the commune and continues south-east to Villefranche-de-Panat. Access to the village is from the north-east on road D659 which runs off the D577 south of the Lac de Pareloup. The D659 runs south-west and ends at the village. The D528 also runs off the D25 in the south of the commune to the village.

The commune is mostly farmland with some forest and covered by many country roads. There are a number of other hamlets and villages in the commune. These are:

• L'Adrech
• Bonneguide
• Boussinesq
• Le Bouviale
• La Capelle Farcel
• La Coste
• Las Fenials
• Flauvelou
• Fretanels
• Le Jouanesq
• Lacan
• Le Mas Nespoulous
• Le Mas Viala
• Le Mas Vialet
• Montcouzac
• Nazareth
• La Niade
• Pentezac
• Peyrebrune
• La Rouquette
• Le Sales
• La Vacaresse

A number of streams rise in the commune and flow to the Lac de Villefranche-de-Panat at the southern border of the commune. The streams include L'Alrance, Ruisseau du Lagasi, and several others. Some streams rise in the north of the commune and flow northwards eventually joining Le Ceor river which eventually flows to the Viaur at Castelpers.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Alrance

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1844	1856	Jean Joseph Terral
1856	1860	Adrien Seguret
1861	1862	Jean-Antoine Barthe
1862	1864	Jean-Joseph Terral
1864	1870	Jean-Antoine Barthe
1870	1871	François Gisquet
1871	1878	Joseph Gagraud
1878	1916	Adolphe Gagraud
1916	1919	Léopold Gautier
1919	1934	Adolphe Gagraud
1934	1953	Paul Serin
1953	1959	Gabriel Gintrand
1959	1971	Edouard Galtier
1971	1977	Auguste Fabre
1977	2001	Hubert Bonnefous
2001	2008	Jacques Montrozier
2008	Current	Jean-Pierre Drulhe

(Not all data is known)

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
2004	389	—
2006	371	−4.6%
2007	382	+3.0%
2008	393	+2.9%
2009	404	+2.8%
2010	400	−1.0%
2011	395	−1.2%
2012	383	−3.0%
2013	370	−3.4%
2014	357	−3.5%
2015	362	+1.4%
2016	361	−0.3%

Sites and Monuments

The Tower of Peyrebrune.

• The Lac de Villefranche-de-Panat just south of the commune border provides power and water activities for the commune
• The Church of Alrance and Church of La Capelle-Farcel
• The Tower of Peyrebrune (a chapel and remains of a castle)

Notable People linked to the commune

• Jean-Baptiste Angles, a missionary in Japan.

See also

• Communes of the Aveyron department

External links

• The tower of Peyrebrune in Alrance
• Alrance on Lion1906
• Alrance on Google Maps
• Alrance on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Alrance on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Alrance on the INSEE website (in French)
• INSEE (in French)