Les Albres

Les Albres
A street in Les Albres
Les Albres
Location within Midi-Pyrénées region Les Albres
Coordinates: 44°32′19″N 2°10′27″E / 44.5386°N 2.1742°E / 44.5386; 2.1742Coordinates: 44°32′19″N 2°10′27″E / 44.5386°N 2.1742°E / 44.5386; 2.1742
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Aveyron
Arrondissement	Villefranche-de-Rouergue
Canton	Capdenac-Gare
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Bernard Jonquières
Area¹	15.22 km² (5.88 sq mi)
Population (2009)²	342
• Density	22/km² (58/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	12003 / 12220
Elevation	223–541 m (732–1,775 ft) (avg. 495 m or 1,624 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.

Les Albres is a French commune in the Aveyron department in the Midi-Pyrénées region of southern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Albrégeois or Albrégeoises ^[1]

Geography

Les Albres is located some 15 km south-east of Figeac and 5 km west of Decazeville. It can be accessed on the D994 road from Asprières in the west, passing through the village and continuing south-east to Montbazens. There is also the D144 small and winding road from Bouillac in the north and the D22 road branching from the D5 in the east and coming to the village via a tortuous route. The commune is mostly farmland with about 30% of the area forested. There are several hamlets other than the village. These are:

Bor
Brayes
Gabriac
La Bastidie
La Revelie
Les Hens
Les Parras
Malaret

Numerous streams rise in the commune and mostly flow south-east. The Ruisseau de l'Estang forms the western border of the commune but most of the other streams are unnamed. There are a number of small lakes and ponds scattered through the commune^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Les Albres

Naussac

Galgan

Montbazens

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

From	To	Name
1878	1882	Léon Piales
1882	1904	Jean-Louis Boisse
1904	1929	Justin Boisse
1929	1945	André Alleguede
1945	1971	Georges Combres
1971	1977	Jean-Marie Bousquet
1977	1995	Claude Molieres
1995	2020	Bernard Jonquieres

(Not all data is known)

Demography

The commune existed in 1793 but in 1834 joined the commune of Asprières together with Vernet-le-Haut. In 1877 however it was separated again. In 1974 it joined the commune of Viviez but again in 1978 it separated.^[4]

In 2009, the commune had 342 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
483	501	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
-	-	-	-	-	675	670	658	620

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
593	608	604	583	542	528	500	480	450

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	-
438	418	418	389	342	330	349	342	-

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

Les Albres Church

Notable people linked to the commune

Father Augustin Brassac was born in Brayes hamlet in Les Albres commune in 1873 and was ordained a priest in 1896. Described later in the new edition of the Biblical Handbook by Father Vigouroux, Father Brassac was deemed by Rome to be too "modernist". All his writings were blacklisted in 1923. Barred from teaching, he was appointed curate at Saint-Supice and he died in 1941. He was partly rehabilitated in 1943 by the encyclical Divino afflante which authorized the historical-critical method in Catholic theology.

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 municipalities with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these municipalities 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

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Communes of the Aveyron department

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