Ayrens

Ayrens
Ayrens
Commune
	Ruins of the chateau of Clavières-Ayrens
	Location of Ayrens
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	Coordinates: 44°59′08″N 2°19′40″E / 44.9856°N 2.3278°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Cantal
Arrondissement	Aurillac
Canton	Saint-Paul-des-Landes
Intercommunality	CA Bassin d'Aurillac
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Philippe Granier
Area 1	25.5 km2 (9.8 sq mi)
Population (2021)	620
• Density	24/km2 (63/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	15016 /15250
Elevation	517–729 m (1,696–2,392 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ayrens is a commune in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region of south-central France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Ayrencois or Ayrencoises.^[2]

Geography

Ayrens is located some 15 km north-west of Aurillac and 5 km north of Saint-Paul-des-Landes. Access to the commune is by road D52 from Teissières-de-Cornet in the south-east which passes through the village and continues west then south to join the D120 north-east of Laroquebrou. The D53 comes from Saint-Paul-des-Landes in the south and also passes through the village before continuing north-east to join the D6 near the border of the commune. The D352 goes north from the village to join the D53 north of the commune. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of:

Les Baraques
Le Bos Niac
Boutonnet
Cels
Ciels
Colin
La Croix-Longue
Jammes
Le Mont
Renac
Selves
Serieys
Tannuies
La Tronque

The commune is mainly farmland with extensive forests in the northern part.^[3]

The Ruisseau du Meyrou flows from the south-east through the south of the commune forming a small part of the western border before continuing north to join the Eize. The Ruisseau d'Ayrens rises in the east of the commune and flows west through the village to the join the Ruisseau du Meyrou on the western border of the commune. The Ruisseau de Braulle flows from the west of the commune through the centre north of the village to join the Ruisseau du Meyrou on the western border. The Ruisseau de Praniac rises in the north of the commune and forms part of the northern border as it flows west to join the Eize.^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[3]

History

Ayrens commune lies on the Paris meridian and on the 45th parallel north (45°0′0″N 2°20′14.025″E / 45.00000°N 2.33722917°E / 45.00000; 2.33722917). It was therefore the fundamental point for the Bonne projection used in the Carte d'État-Major (General Staff Map) in the 19th century.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1935

From	To	Name
1790	1793	Louis Linthilac
1793	1793	François Maleprade
1793	1795	Louis Dejour
1795	1796	Guillaume Lafon
1796	1798	René Andrieu
1798	1799	Pierre Lallier
1799	1802	Jean Vabret
1802	1802	Louis Bonhomme
1802	1803	François Maleprade
1803	1804	Antoine Maisonobe
1805	1805	François Capelle
1805	1806	Antoine Maisonobe
1806	1808	Charles Devèze
1808	1816	Antoine Bonhomme
1816	1820	Salvenie de Montal
1820	1848	Antoine de Montal
1848	1852	Durand Lafon
1852	1857	Louis Rengade
1857	1863	Antoine Deconquand
1863	1876	Jean Rengade
1876	1888	Emile Gazard
1888	1896	Amédée Rebeyrols
1896	1904	Antoine Mallet
1904	1910	Jean Léon Reniac
1910	1920	Pierre Vidal
1920	1933	Louis Maisonobe
1933	1935	François Veschambres

Mayors from 1935

From	To	Name
1935	1945	Pierre Poux
1943	1947	François Veschambres
1947	1958	Adrien Prunet
1958	1971	Albert Moissinac
1971	2008	Jean Chanut
2008	2014	Robert Wallez
2014	2020	Philippe Granier

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 564 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

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Sites and Monuments

The Château de Clavières, built in the Troubadour style, was burnt down on 25 May 1936 and left in ruins.^[5]
The Parc de Clavières is registered as an historical monument.^[6]

Stained glass in the Chateau of Clavières
Stained glass in the Chateau of Clavières
Statue of a Troubadour at the Chateau

The intersection of the Paris meridian and the 45th parallel north is in a field where four trees were planted on the occasion of the celebration of the Méridienne verte (Green Meridian) on 14 July 2000. The trees are arranged in a square whose vertices are directed toward the four cardinal points, which allows the determination of the exact intersection point.

Notable people linked to the commune

Cardinal Guillaume de La Jugie, restored then lived in the Château of Angouste in the 14th century.
Félix de la Salle de Rochemaure (1856–1915), French félibrige writer,^[7]^[8]^[9] lived in the Château of Clavières.
Jean Léon Sanis (Ayrens 1804-?), geographer, professor at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.

Notes and references

Notes

^ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Inhabitants of Cantal (in French)
^ ^a ^b ^c Google Maps
^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
^ Château de Clavières (in French)
^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000361 Parc de Clavières (in French)
^ Félibrée de Sceaux, Sunday 5 June 2011, intervention by Jacques Mouttet (in French)
^ Duc de La Salle de Rochemaure, Gerbert, Silvestre II Paul Émile, Paris, 1914 (in French)
^ Marcellin Boudet, Necrology of the Duke of La Salle de Rochemaure, 1915, in RHA, 60 p. (in French)

[5] At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

[popleg2021-1] "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[2] Inhabitants of Cantal (in French)

[Google-3] Google Maps

[4] List of Mayors of France (in French)

[6] Château de Clavières (in French)

[7] Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000361 Parc de Clavières (in French)

[8] Félibrée de Sceaux, Sunday 5 June 2011, intervention by Jacques Mouttet (in French)

[9] Duc de La Salle de Rochemaure, Gerbert, Silvestre II Paul Émile, Paris, 1914 (in French)

[10] Marcellin Boudet, Necrology of the Duke of La Salle de Rochemaure, 1915, in RHA, 60 p. (in French)

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