Andance

Andance
View of Andance from Andancette, across the Rhone River and the Marc Seguin Bridge
Andance
Location within Rhône-Alpes region Andance
Coordinates: 45°14′29″N 4°48′00″E / 45.2414°N 4.8°E / 45.2414; 4.8Coordinates: 45°14′29″N 4°48′00″E / 45.2414°N 4.8°E / 45.2414; 4.8
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Tournon-sur-Rhône
Canton	Serrières
Intercommunality	Rhône-Valloire
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Alain Delaleuf
Area¹	6.52 km² (2.52 sq mi)
Population (2009)²	1,126
• Density	170/km² (450/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	07009 / 07340
Elevation	121–363 m (397–1,191 ft) (avg. 128 m or 420 ft)
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.

Andance (Andança in Occitan) is a French commune in the Ardèche department in the Rhône-Alpes region of southern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Andançois or Andançoises^[1]

Geography

Andance is located 5 km south of Saint-Rambert-d'Albon, 15 km east of Annonay, and 20 km north of Tournon-sur-Rhone. It can be accessed by the D86 road from Champagne in the north passing through the village then continuing south through the commune to Sarras. The D86B passes from the village over the Rhone to Andancette on the east bank. The D82 road also comes from Saint-Etienne-de-Valoux in the north-east to the village. There are also the small D370 road from Talencieux in the west to the village via a tortuous route and the D370B also from Talencieux to the south of the commune.

The commune has the Rhone as its entire eastern border with the Ruisseau de L'Ecoutay, the Ruisseau du Creux, the Ruisseau de Cueil, and numerous other streams flowing through the commune to the Rhone. The Conce river forms the southern border of the commune and also flows into the Rhone.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Andance

Talencieux

Sarras

Laveyron

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

From	To	Name
2001	2008	Pierre Biennier
2008	2014	Irène Fourel
2014	2020	Alain Delaleuf

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 1,126 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through 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 towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
860	1,016	941	1,194	1,381	1,303	1,355	1,352	1,395

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
1,353	1,310	1,396	1,200	1,553	1,212	1,175	1,105	1,079

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
1,007	977	949	897	975	1,074	910	929	965

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	-
896	926	1,030	920	1,009	984	1,116	1,126	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Distribution of Age Groups

The population of the commune is relatively old. The proportion of persons above the age of 60 years (22.6%) is higher than the national rate (21.8%) while being less than the departmental rate (26.8%). As with the national and departmental distribution, the female population of the commune is higher than the male population. The rate (51%) is of the same order of magnitude as the national rate (51.9%).

The distribution of the population of the commune was, in 2009, 50% of men and 50% of women.

Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Andance and Ardèche Department in 2009

	Andance	Andance	Ardèche	Ardèche
Age Range	Men	Women	Men	Women
0 to 14 Years	21.3	16.7	18.7	16.9
15 to 29 Years	18.8	18.8	15.4	14.0
30 to 44 Years	21.0	21.8	19.9	18.9
45 to 59 Years	18.7	16.3	21.5	20.6
60 to 74 Years	12.3	14.4	16.1	16.4
75 to 89 Years	7.7	10.5	8.0	11.7
90 Years+	0.2	1.6	0.4	1.5

Sources:

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The Sarrazinière Roman Ruins (Antiquity) at Châtelet are registered as an historical monument^[4]
Andance bridge was built in 1827 with iron wires and a central pier. The Andance bridge is the oldest suspension bridge still used today in France. It was built by Marc Seguin the brilliant inventor from Annonay. Largely destroyed during the Second World War on 30 August 1944, it was rebuilt and reopened in 1946 then underwent further changes

Religious heritage

The Church of Our Lady of Andance (12th century) is registered as an historical monument^[5]
A Calvary of Three Saints.

The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:

A Painting: Saint Philomena Martyred (19th century)^[6]
A Painting: Saint Romain (1835)^[7]
A Painting: Pope Pius IX remitting indulgences to the Andance Priest for the Saint-Barrel Chapel (19th century)^[8]
A Painting: Crusaders bringing relics to the chapel (19th century)^[9]
An Altar Cross (19th century)^[10]
A Processional Cross (19th century)^[11]
2 Prints with frames: Stations of the Cross (19th century)^[12]
A Reliquary (19th century)^[13]
A Statue: Saint Barulas (19th century)^[14]
A Statue: Black Madonna (19th century)^[15]
A Passion Cross: Cross of Bargemen^[16]

Andance in the arts

Andance is mentioned in the poem by Louis Aragon, The conscript of a hundred villages, written as an act of clandestine intellectual resistance in 1943 during the Second World War.^[17]

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 , the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" which allow, 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

↑ Inhabitants of Ardèche (French)
1 2 Google Maps
↑ List of Mayors of France
↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00116624 Sarrazinière Roman Ruins (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00116623 Church of Our Lady of Andance (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07001155 Painting: Saint Philomena Martyred (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07001154 Painting: Saint Romain (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07001153 Painting: Pope Pius IX remitting indulgences to the Andance Priest for the Saint-Barrel Chapel (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07001152 Painting: Crusaders bringing relics to the chapel (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07001151 Altar Cross (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07001150 Processional Cross (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07001149 2 Prints with frames: Stations of the Cross (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07001148 Reliquary (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07001147 Statue: Saint Barulas (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07001146 Statue: Black Madonna (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07000458 Passion Cross: Cross of Bargemen (French)
↑ Louis Aragon, Le Conscrit des cent villages, published initially in La Diane française, consulted in Pierre Seghers, The Resistance and its poets: France, 1940-1945, Paris, Seghers, 2004 (2nd edition), ISBN 2-232-12242-5, p. 373-375 (French)

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