Boulaur

Boulaur
Commune
Abbey
Location of Boulaur
Boulaur Boulaur
Coordinates: 43°32′30″N 0°46′29″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Gers
Arrondissement	Auch
Canton	Astarac-Gimone
Intercommunality	Arrats-Gimone
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Paul Ruetsch
Area 1	9.03 km2 (3.49 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	187
• Density	21/km2 (54/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	32061 /32450
Elevation	162–285 m (531–935 ft) (avg. 155 m or 509 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Boulaur is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

Geography

Boulaur and its surrounding communes

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	346	—
1800	228	−34.1%
1806	374	+64.0%
1821	438	+17.1%
1831	449	+2.5%
1841	438	−2.4%
1846	433	−1.1%
1851	412	−4.8%
1856	443	+7.5%
1861	431	−2.7%
1866	473	+9.7%
1872	422	−10.8%
1876	431	+2.1%
1886	379	−12.1%
1881	408	+7.7%
1891	395	−3.2%
1896	345	−12.7%
1901	330	−4.3%
1906	296	−10.3%
1911	299	+1.0%
1921	247	−17.4%
1926	227	−8.1%
1931	208	−8.4%
1936	197	−5.3%
1946	219	+11.2%
1954	203	−7.3%
1962	133	−34.5%
1968	163	+22.6%
1975	154	−5.5%
1982	140	−9.1%
1990	126	−10.0%
1999	128	+1.6%
2008	151	+18.0%

Abbey

St Mary's Abbey of Boulaur, a former priory of the Order of Fontevraud, is a monastery of Cistercian nuns. It was founded in the 12th century and was originally a Fontevrist monastery that was abolished during the French Revolution. Cistercian nuns reinstated it at the end of the 19th century, and were expelled]] under the Associations Act of 1901. Monastic life was definitively restored in 1949. In 2011 the community had about thirty nuns.

See also

• Communes of the Gers department

References

• INSEE

Further reading

• Histoire de l'ordre de Fontevrault, 1100-1908; by the Religious of Sainte-Marie-de-Fontevrault-de-Boulaur (afterwards at Vera in Navarre). 3 vols. Auch, 1911–15