Adast

Adast
Commune
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Coordinates: 42°58′29″N 0°04′36″W / 42.9747°N 0.0767°W / 42.9747; -0.0767Coordinates: 42°58′29″N 0°04′36″W / 42.9747°N 0.0767°W / 42.9747; -0.0767
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Argelès-Gazost
Canton	La Vallée des Gaves
Intercommunality
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Jean-Philippe Castaignede
Area 1	1.05 km2 (0.41 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	295
• Density	280/km2 (730/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	65001 /65260
Elevation	434–542 m (1,424–1,778 ft) (avg. 444 m or 1,457 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Adast is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in southwestern France. It is in Sent Savin valley in the Bigorre region.

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In 1270, the was bequeathed after the death of Mathe de Bigorre-Mâtas to one of his daughters, Marguerite.

In the 17th Century, it became the refuge of the poet whose mother was Gabrielle de Miramont. The castle was then bought by Bernard Abadie-Gaye, an inhabitant of Sazos (near Luz-Saint-Sauveur). It was then sold by a descendant of this family, Célestin Carrere, son of Louise Abadie-Gaye, in 1914.

The château was later inhabited by Dr. (1861-1944), a surgeon who advanced orthopaedic surgery preferring conservative treatments to the systematic amputations. He spent his entire career from 1890 at Berck and he retired to the Château de Miramont.

At the end of the 1960s, the Château de Miramont was bought by the journalist, radio and television host Jacques Chancel, who came from the nearby village of Ayzac-Ost.

See also[]

• Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department

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