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Arvieu

Coordinates: 44°11′29″N 2°39′43″E / 44.1914°N 2.6619°E / 44.1914; 2.6619
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Arvieu
Commune
The Lake of Pareloup
The Lake of Pareloup
Location of Arvieu
Map
Arvieu is located in France
Arvieu
Arvieu
Arvieu is located in Occitanie
Arvieu
Arvieu
Coordinates: 44°11′29″N 2°39′43″E / 44.1914°N 2.6619°E / 44.1914; 2.6619
CountryFrance
RegionOccitania
DepartmentAveyron
ArrondissementMillau
CantonMonts du Réquistanais
IntercommunalityLévézou Pareloup
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Guy Lacan[1]
Area
1
46.91 km2 (18.11 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
755
 • Density16/km2 (42/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC 01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC 02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
12011 /12120
Elevation606–929 m (1,988–3,048 ft)
(avg. 730 m or 2,400 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Arvieu (French pronunciation: [aʁvjø]; Occitan: Arviu) is a commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of southern France.

Geography

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Arvieu is located some 23 km south by south-east of Rodez and 7 km north of Alrance. Access to the commune is by the D56 road from Pont-de-Salars in the north-east passing through the commune and the village and continuing south to Durenque. The D82 branches off the D56 north of the village and goes north to Flavin. The D577 branches off the D56 in the south of the commune and goes west to Salmiech. The commune is entirely farmland except for some small patches of forest.[3]

The eastern border of the commune is the Lac de Pareloup. The Céor river rises in the east of the commune and flows west through the village then south forming part of the western border before continuing west to join the Viaur at Saint-Just-sur-Viaur. The Ruisseau de Glauzeilles rises in the north of the commune flowing west then south-west, forming the north-eastern border of the commune, to join the Céor. The Ruisseau de Calieres rises in the east of the commune and flows north to join the Vioulou just north of the commune.[3]

Places and hamlets

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  • Les Auglanes
  • Aurifeuille
  • Beauregard
  • Bel-Air
  • Bellevue
  • Le Besset
  • Bois de Nouet
  • Bois Grand
  • Bonneviale
  • Le Bose
  • La Brauge
  • La Calmette
  • Caplongue
  • Cayras
  • Cayras Bas
  • Les Cazals
  • Clauzelles
  • Clauzellou
  • Les Combes
  • Le Coutal
  • La Croix de l'Ouradou
  • Dournets
  • Dours
  • Espinous
  • Espinouset
  • Fau du Dours
  • Les Faux
  • Font Bonne
  • Fouleties
  • Galinieres
  • Gilergues
  • Ginestous
  • Girman Bas
  • Girman Haut
  • La Graille
  • Grelac
  • Lalic
  • La Lumiere
  • Mas Roux
  • Le Mas Roussel
  • Le Mas Vayssettes
  • Montginoux
  • Montredon
  • Le Mouli
  • Le Moulin d'Aigles
  • Le Moulin de la Gineste
  • N.-D d'Aures
  • Pareloup
  • Le Pouget
  • La Pendarie
  • Pierrefiche
  • Pauhle Rouby
  • La Pendarie
  • La Plane
  • Le Puech
  • Puech d'Anglas
  • Puech Cabane
  • Le Puech de Clauzelles
  • Puech d'Espinous
  • Puech de Girman
  • Le Puech Granier
  • Puech de Grima
  • Puech Grimal
  • Le Rhan
  • Les Rials
  • Rochers du Diable
  • le Roucan
  • Rougeviale
  • Routaboul
  • Le Rueillou
  • Saint-Martin des Faux (partly in Arvieu and partly in Salles-Curan)
  • Serieux
  • Les Sottes
  • Tredos
  • Ventajou

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Neighbouring communes and villages

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History

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  • There are traces of the Gallo-Romans
  • In the 16th century the village was besieged
  • In the 18th century the Vigouroux family of Rodez bought the Lordship
  • The Arvieu Affair: The village was attacked by a band of counter-revolutionaries from the former Army of Charrié who hid in the Palanges Forest. The house of Citizen Bonnefous, the leading citizen of the commune, was pillaged. Many people were accused of supporting the attackers who were from the de Barrau family of Carcenac-Salmiech.[5]
  • The ramparts were destroyed in the 19th century.

Heraldry

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Arms of Arvieu
Arms of Arvieu
 Blazon:

Party per bend sinister, at 1 Azure with a Cross of Malta of Or; at 2 Gules, a lion Argent.



Administration

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List of Successive Mayors[6]

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1941
From To Name Party Position
1789 1793 Pierre Lacombe
1793 1796 Jean Blancpauly
1796 1797 Joseph Dufieu
1797 1799 Amans Gaubert
1799 1801 François Robert
1801 1816 Léonard Bonnefous
1816 1821 Pierre Long
1821 1826 Léonard Bonnefous
1826 1830 Pierre Long
1830 1843 Régis Dufieu
1843 1848 Léonard Bonnefous
1848 1851 Hippolyte Bonnefous
1851 1854 Gervais Rigal
1854 1865 Jean Cayron
1865 1879 Hippolyte Bonnefous
1879 1892 Antoine Capron
1892 1901 Hippolyte Bonnefous
1901 1904 Pierre Salbat
1904 1913 Hippolyte Bonnefous
1913 1929 Victor Espinasse
1929 1935 Hervé Canac
1935 1941 Justin Fabie
Mayors from 1941
From To Name
1941 1945 Victor Boudes
1945 1950 Justin Mai
1950 1965 Ernest Thubieres
1965 1983 Raymond Almes
1983 1995 Léonce Terral
1995 2008 Raymond Vaysettes
2008 2014 Claudine Bru
2014 2020 Gilles Bounhol
2020 2026 Guy Lacan

Population

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The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arvieunois or Arvieunoises in French.[7]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 1,234—    
1975 1,093−1.72%
1982 1,082−0.14%
1990 925−1.94%
1999 880−0.55%
2007 863−0.24%
2012 820−1.02%
2017 783−0.92%
Source: INSEE[8]

Culture and heritage

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Chapel of Notre-Dame d'Aures

Civil heritage

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  • A Feudal Château Sainte-Famille (a former convent).
  • The Château of Saint-Louis (now the Town Hall).
  • The Château of Montfranc (Arvieu, private property).
  • A Pond, Mill, and Lavoir (Public laundry) at Arvieu.

Religious heritage

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The Statue of Saint Foy
  • The Church of Notre-Dame d'Aures (12th centuries) is registered as an historical monument.[9] The church contains a Statue of Saint Foy (15th century) which is registered as an historical object.[10]
  • The Parish Church of Saint-Amans at Arvieu had a Painting: The Assumption of the Virgin (disappeared) (1850) which is registered as an historical object.[11]
  • The Church of Saint-Saturnin or Saint-Sernin at Caplongue.
  • The Church of Saint-Martin at Faux.
  • The Chapel of Saint-André at Clauzelles.

Notable people linked to the commune

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  • Jean Dupin, (1936–), former senior Post Office official, wrote seven novels set in Lévézou, originally from Arvieu village.
  • Joël Serin, former secretary in the Town Hall.
  • Henri Grimal, born in Arvieu in 1910, academic and historian.

See also

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Bibliography

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  • Christian-Pierre Bedel, preface by Bernard Destours, Cassanhas: Arviu, Auriac, Caumont, La Grand'Vila, Saumièg, Senta-Jaleda or Christian-Pierre Bedel e los estatjants del canton de Cassanhas, Rodez, Mission départementale de la culture, 1996, Al canton collection, 240 pages, ill., couv. ill., 28 cm, ISBN 2-907279-30-0, ISSN 1151-8375, BnF 366930046 (in French)/(Occitan)

References

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  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b c Google Maps
  4. ^ Géoportail, IGN, consulted on 4 May 2014 (in French)
  5. ^ Henri Grimal, The Affair of Arvieu (October 1793), Revue du Rouergue, No. 87, New series, Autumn 2006, pp. 349 to 382. (in French)
  6. ^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
  7. ^ Le nom des habitants du 12 - Aveyron, habitants.fr
  8. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  9. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA12000030 Church of Notre-Dame d'Aures (in French)
  10. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM12000002 Statue: Saint Foy (in French)
  11. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM12000212 Painting: Assumption of the Virgin (in French)
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