Versailleux

Versailleux

Versailleux
Administration
Country France
Region Rhône-Alpes
Department Ain
Arrondissement Bourg-en-Bresse
Canton Chalamont
Intercommunality Chalamont
Mayor Gérard Branchy
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation 274–303 m (899–994 ft)
(avg. 286 m/938 ft)
Land area1 18.77 km2 (7.25 sq mi)
Population2 330  (2008)
 - Density 18 /km2 (47 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 01434/ 01330
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.

Versailleux is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.

On 23 February 2006 during the epidemic of avian influenza, a great number of turkeys died in a breeding of 11,000 animals, probably because of the virus H5N1. The turkeys had never left it because the breeding was confined. The commune of Joyeux, in which the first French case was detected on 13 February, is located a few kilometres south.

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Population

Historical population of Versailleux
Year 1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851 1856
Population 269 282 332 304 363 352 369 416 405 414
Year 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896 1901 1906
Population 413 436 435 395 412 441 414 398 377 393
Year 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954 1962 1968 1975
Population 381 340 317 305 286 290 248 221 205 198
Year 1982 1990 1999 2008
Population 210 219 255 330

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