Bouc-Bel-Air

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Administration
Commune of Bouc-Bel-Air
Location
Longitude	05° 24' 54" E
Latitude	43° 27' 19" N
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement	Aix-en-Provence
Canton	Gardanne
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération du Pays d'Aix
Mayor	Jean-Claude Perrin (2001-2008)
Statistics
Altitude	153 m–330 m (avg. 259 m)
Land area¹	21.75 km²
Population² (1999)	12,297
- Density ()	565/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	13015/ 13320
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Bouc-Bel-Air is a village and commune of the Bouches-du-Rhône département in southern France.

It is typically in Provençal style, founded around a rock which formed the foundation of an old castle of the 7th century. It has a particularly nice view on several mountains among which the locally well known Sainte-Victoire.

Inhabited since very ancient times, its sites witness of Roman-Gallic settlings. Some of these sites date of the 7th century B.C. Invasions of the Barbarians took place in the 7th century A.D., the probable foundation date of the village.

The famous Adolphe Thiers, Joseph Autran, André Roussin, Frantz Litz and Alexandre Dumas where born or resided in Bouc-Bel-Air.^{[citation needed]}