Le Bleymard

Le Bleymard

The town hall of Le Bleymard

Coat of arms
Le Bleymard

Coordinates: 44°29′14″N 3°44′09″E / 44.4872°N 3.7358°E / 44.4872; 3.7358Coordinates: 44°29′14″N 3°44′09″E / 44.4872°N 3.7358°E / 44.4872; 3.7358
Country France
Region Occitanie
Department Lozère
Arrondissement Mende
Canton Saint-Étienne-du-Valdonnez
Area1 16.36 km2 (6.32 sq mi)
Population (2009)2 347
 • Density 21/km2 (55/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 48027 /48190
Elevation 1,037–1,482 m (3,402–4,862 ft)
(avg. 1,069 m or 3,507 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.

Le Bleymard is a former commune in the Lozère department in southern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mont Lozère et Goulet.[1]

The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson ate in the village on the evening of 28 September 1878 before camping nearby, as recounted in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.[2] The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (GR 70), a popular long-distance path following Stevenson's approximate route, runs through the village, and a three-day "Festival Stevenson" is held in the area annually. The nearby Mont Lozère is a ski resort.[3]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793752—    
1800748−0.5%
1806749+0.1%
1821486−35.1%
1831583+20.0%
1836597+2.4%
1841583−2.3%
1846596+2.2%
1851652+9.4%
1856610−6.4%
1861553−9.3%
1866540−2.4%
1872575+6.5%
1876600+4.3%
1881678+13.0%
1886665−1.9%
1891605−9.0%
1896649+7.3%
1901598−7.9%
1906621+3.8%
1911697+12.2%
1921553−20.7%
1926575+4.0%
1931549−4.5%
1936448−18.4%
1946493+10.0%
1954336−31.8%
1962324−3.6%
1968295−9.0%
1975358+21.4%
1982434+21.2%
1990440+1.4%
1999446+1.4%
2006367−17.7%
2009347−5.4%

Personalities

See also

References

  1. ↑ Arrêté préfectoral 23 May 2016 (in French)
  2. ↑ Stevenson, Robert Louis (1905) [1879]. "Wikisource link to Upper Gévaudan (Continued)". Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Wikisource. Wikisource page link 111. "From Bleymard after dinner, although it was already late, I set out to scale a portion of the Lozère."
  3. ↑ Castle, Alan (2007). The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (2nd ed.). Cicerone. pp. 125–127. ISBN 978-1-85284-511-7.
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