Salies-de-Béarn
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Coordinates: 43°28′16″N 0°55′30″W / 43.471°N 0.925°WCoordinates: 43°28′16″N 0°55′30″W / 43.471°N 0.925°W | |
Country | France |
Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques |
Arrondissement | Oloron-Sainte-Marie |
Canton | Orthez et Terres des Gaves et du Sel |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Thierry Cabanne[1] |
Area 1 | 52.08 km2 (20.11 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2018)[2] | 4,589 |
• Density | 88/km2 (230/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 64499 /64270 |
Elevation | 28–202 m (92–663 ft) (avg. 56 m or 184 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Salies-de-Béarn (French pronunciation: [sali də beaʁn], literally Salies of Béarn; Occitan: Salias) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.
The name comes from its naturally occurring saline water (Gascon salias for Standard Occitan salinas). During the expanded, pre-liberation occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Salies was on the border between the occupied zone and the free zone.
Between September 1941 and the summer of 1942, Jean Anouilh wrote his famous adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, Antigone in the comparatively idyllic setting of Salies-de-Bearn, relieved of the invader's presence, the evening curfews and the deprivations of Paris. The play premiered in Occupied Paris in February 1944.
Salies-de-Bearn served as the setting for the writer Trevanian's novel, The . In the book, it was renamed Salies-les-Bains.
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- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
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