Ayrens

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Ayrens
Ruins of the chateau of Clavières-Ayrens
Ruins of the chateau of Clavières-Ayrens
Location of Ayrens
Ayrens is located in France
Ayrens
Ayrens
Coordinates: 44°59′08″N 2°19′40″E / 44.9856°N 2.3278°E / 44.9856; 2.3278Coordinates: 44°59′08″N 2°19′40″E / 44.9856°N 2.3278°E / 44.9856; 2.3278
CountryFrance
RegionAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
DepartmentCantal
ArrondissementAurillac
CantonSaint-Paul-des-Landes
IntercommunalityCA Bassin d'Aurillac
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Philippe Granier
Area
1
25.5 km2 (9.8 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2018)[1]
641
 • Density25/km2 (65/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
15016 /15250
Elevation517–729 m (1,696–2,392 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ayrens is a commune in the Cantal department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-central France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Ayrencois or Ayrencoises.[2]

Geography[]

Ayrens is located some 15 km north-west of Aurillac and 5 km north of Saint-Paul-des-Landes. Access to the commune is by road D52 from Teissières-de-Cornet in the south-east which passes through the village and continues west then south to join the D120 north-east of Laroquebrou. The D53 comes from Saint-Paul-des-Landes in the south and also passes through the village before continuing north-east to join the D6 near the border of the commune. The D352 goes north from the village to join the D53 north of the commune. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of:

  • Les Baraques
  • Le Bos Niac
  • Boutonnet
  • Cels
  • Ciels
  • Colin
  • La Croix-Longue
  • Jammes
  • Le Mont
  • Renac
  • Selves
  • Serieys
  • Tannuies
  • La Tronque

The commune is mainly farmland with extensive forests in the northern part.[3]

The Ruisseau du Meyrou flows from the south-east through the south of the commune forming a small part of the western border before continuing north to join the Eize. The Ruisseau d'Ayrens rises in the east of the commune and flows west through the village to the join the Ruisseau du Meyrou on the western border of the commune. The Ruisseau de Braulle flows from the west of the commune through the centre north of the village to join the Ruisseau du Meyrou on the western border. The Ruisseau de Praniac rises in the north of the commune and forms part of the northern border as it flows west to join the Eize.[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages[]

[3]

History[]

Ayrens commune lies on the Paris meridian and on the 45th parallel north (

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45°0′0″N 2°20′14.025″E / 45.00000°N 2.33722917°E / 45.00000; 2.33722917). It was therefore the fundamental point for the Bonne projection used in the Carte d'État-Major (General Staff Map) in the 19th century.

Administration[]

List of Successive Mayors[4]

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1935
Mayors from 1935
From To Name Party Position
1935 1945 Pierre Poux
1943 1947 François Veschambres
1947 1958 Adrien Prunet
1958 1971 Albert Moissinac
1971 2008 Jean Chanut
2008 2014 Robert Wallez
2014 2020 Philippe Granier

Demography[]

In 2017 the commune had 652 inhabitants.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 1,390—    
1800 1,240−1.62%
1806 1,135−1.46%
1821 1,151+0.09%
1831 1,191+0.34%
1836 1,164−0.46%
1841 1,183+0.32%
1846 1,140−0.74%
1851 1,148+0.14%
1856 1,117−0.55%
1861 1,001−2.17%
1866 1,005+0.08%
1872 990−0.25%
1876 962−0.71%
1881 960−0.04%
1886 965+0.10%
1891 1,061+1.91%
1896 912−2.98%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 960+1.03%
1906 852−2.36%
1911 838−0.33%
1921 740−1.24%
1926 751+0.30%
1931 702−1.34%
1936 642−1.77%
1946 632−0.16%
1954 569−1.30%
1962 513−1.29%
1968 505−0.26%
1975 444−1.82%
1982 544+2.94%
1990 545+0.02%
1999 494−1.09%
2007 551+1.37%
2012 580+1.03%
2017 652+2.37%
Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE[6]

Sites and Monuments[]

Fagus sylvatica pliocenica from Ayrens in the Muséum de Toulouse.
The Chateau of Clavières in 1900
  • The intersection of the Paris meridian and the 45th parallel north is in a field where four trees were planted on the occasion of the celebration of the Méridienne verte (Green Meridian) on 14 July 2000. The trees are arranged in a square whose vertices are directed toward the four cardinal points, which allows the determination of the exact intersection point.

Notable people linked to the commune[]

  • Cardinal Guillaume de La Jugie, restored then lived in the Château of Angouste in the 14th century.
  • Félix de la Salle de Rochemaure (1856–1915), French félibrige writer,[9][10][11] lived in the Château of Clavières.
  • Jean Léon Sanis (Ayrens 1804-?), geographer, professor at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.

See also[]

External links[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
  2. ^ Inhabitants of Cantal (in French)
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Google Maps
  4. ^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
  5. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Ayrens, EHESS. (in French)
  6. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  7. ^ Château de Clavières (in French)
  8. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA15000361 Parc de Clavières (in French)
  9. ^ Félibrée de Sceaux, Sunday 5 June 2011, intervention by Jacques Mouttet (in French)
  10. ^ Duc de La Salle de Rochemaure, Gerbert, Silvestre II Paul Émile, Paris, 1914 (in French)
  11. ^ Marcellin Boudet, Necrology of the Duke of La Salle de Rochemaure, 1915, in RHA, 60 p. (in French)


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