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Péguilhan |
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Péguilhan
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| Country | France |
| Region | Midi-Pyrénées |
| Department | Haute-Garonne |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Gaudens |
| Canton | Boulogne-sur-Gesse |
| Mayor | Michel Brocas (2008–2014) |
| Statistics | |
| Elevation | 218–345 m (715–1,132 ft) (avg. 347 m/1,138 ft) |
| Land area1 | 18.48 km2 (7.14 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 238 (2008) |
| - Density | 13 /km2 (34 /sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 31412/ 31350 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Péguilhan is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France in the historical region of Gascony.
Péguilhan has far-reaching views towards the Pyrenees. Péguilhan is surrounded by woodland and wide open countryside, a mixture of arable and livestock farming. Some houses in the area have been bought by British incomers, although the majority of incomers in recent times have been Dutch and German.
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| Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 |
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| Population | 313 | 334 | 259 | 250 | 232 | 221 | 238 |
It was the possibly birthplace of Aimeric de Peguilhan, a medieval troubadour, although this is questioned.
The river Gesse flows northward through the commune towards the market town of Boulogne-sur-Gesse; the Gimone forms most its western border.
Péguilhan is the setting for Martin Calder's travel memoir A Summer in Gascony, a charming story of life on a farm with a local Gascon family, centred around the Auberge at the end of the village. The book is set some time in the early 1990s and was published in 2008 by Nicholas Brealey publishing.