Les Authieux-sur-Calonne

Les Authieux-sur-Calonne
Commune
Coat of arms
Les Authieux-sur-Calonne
Location within Normandy region  Les Authieux-sur-Calonne
Coordinates: 49°17′53″N 0°17′04″E / 49.2981°N 0.2844°E / 49.2981; 0.2844Coordinates: 49°17′53″N 0°17′04″E / 49.2981°N 0.2844°E / 49.2981; 0.2844
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Pont-l'Évêque
Intercommunality	Blangy Pont-l'Évêque Intercom
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Jean-Alain Charpentier
Area1	10.2 km2 (3.9 sq mi)
Population (2010)2	294
• Density	29/km2 (75/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	14032 /14130
Elevation	23–162 m (75–531 ft) (avg. 136 m or 446 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 Authieux-sur-Calonne is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Altaréens or Altaréennes.^[1]

Geography

Les Authieux-sur-Calonne is located some 55 km north-east of Caen and 27 km south-east of Le Havre. Access to the commune is by the D534 road from Cormeilles in the south-east which passes through the north of the commune and the village and continues to join the D675 just west of the commune. The D140 road goes south from the village through the length of the commune to Le Mesnil-sur-Blangy in the south. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of La Route de Blangy, La Boudiniere, and La Grenterie. The commune is mostly farmland with some scattered forests.^[2]

The Calonne river forms the north-eastern border of the commune as it flows north-west then west to join the Touques at Pont-l'Évêque. Several tributaries rise in the commune and flow north to join the Calonne including the Douet de la Thibaudiere, the Ruisseau des Rebutieres, the Ruisseau du Val Plot, and the Ryisseau de Manoir.^[2]

Heraldry

Blazon: Gules, two lions passant guardant of Or langued of Gules one over the other, in chief Azure charged with three churches of Argent..[3]

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 294 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from 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 communes that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Les Authieux-sur-Calonne War Memorial

Culture and heritage

The Chapel of Saint Meuf

Civil heritage

The commune has two buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Manoir de la Porte (18th century)^[5]
• The Tanning and Wheat Mill (1853)^[6]

Religious heritage

The Saint Meuf Chapel Portal

The Church of Saint Pierre

The commune has one religious building that is registered as an historical monument:

• The Chapel Saint-Meuf^[7] The Chapel contains one item that is registered as an historical object:
  • The Portal (16th century)^[8]

The Parish Church of Saint-Pierre contains many items that are registered as historical objects:

• 5 Statues (17th century)^[9]
• A Tabernacle, 2 seating sets, Tabernacle housing (17th century)^[10]
• A Painting: the Assumption (17th century)^[11]
• A Retable (17th century)^[12]
• The Altar facing (17th century)^[13]
• The main Altar (17th century)^[14]
• The main Altar (17th century)^[14]
• The Altar facing (17th century)^[15]
• A Statue: Saint Nicolas (16th century)^[16]
• A Stoup and portable Stoup (15th century)^[17]

Notable people linked to the commune

• Henry Victor Deligny (1855-1938 at Authieux-sur-Calonne), General of Division in the First World War.

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

External links

• A Visit to the village of Authieux-sur-Calonne and its environment
• Les Authieux-sur-Calonne on Lion1906
• Les Authieux-sur-Calonne on Google Maps
• Les Authieux-sur-Calonne on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Les Autieux-sur-Calone on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Les Authieux-sur-Calonne on the INSEE website (in French)
• INSEE (in French)

Notes and references

Notes

1. ↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine., the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, 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

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