Arthez-d'Asson

Arthez-d'Asson
The Village
Arthez-d'Asson
Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region Arthez-d'Asson
Coordinates: 43°05′27″N 0°15′03″W / 43.0908°N 0.2508°W / 43.0908; -0.2508Coordinates: 43°05′27″N 0°15′03″W / 43.0908°N 0.2508°W / 43.0908; -0.2508
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Nay-Ouest
Intercommunality	Pays de Nay
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Jean-Jacques Laffitte
Area¹	7.32 km² (2.83 sq mi)
Population (2010)²	501
• Density	68/km² (180/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	64058 / 64800
Elevation	329–494 m (1,079–1,621 ft) (avg. 568 m or 1,864 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.

Arthez-d'Asson (Occitan: Artés d'Asson) is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arthéziens or Arthéziennes^[1]

Geography

Arthez-d'Asson is in the Ouzom Valley some 30 km south by south-east of Pau and 35 km east by south-east of Oloron-Sainte-Marie. The commune is almost entirely surrounded by the commune of Asson. Access to the commune is by road D126 which comes from Asson in the north passing through the commune and the village, continuing south up the Valley to Ferrières. The commune is almost entirely farmland although with patches of forest particularly along the river.^[2]

The Ouzom River flows through the length of the commune from south to north gathering some tributaries on the right bank, such as the Cau du Hau, the Cau du Gat, the Arriou Sec, and the Cau de la Heche, and continuing north to join the Gave de Pau near Coarraze.The Ruisseau de Thouet forms the north-western border of the commune as it flows north-east to join the Ouzom.^[2]

Places and Hamlets^[3]

Les Aoules
Arbes
Arrascles dessus
Arrecgros
Arrecous
Arribarrouy
Boué
Canet
La Cantine
Chartou
Chourettes
Chourrist
Pé de la Coumette
Garrenot^[4]
Guilhamet
Guilhem
Habout
Clot du Hour
Hourna
Jacob
Labède
Lacoue
Lanot
Larrabe
Maupas
Le Pont du Moulin
Panan
Peyré
La Pine
Cot de Tisnès
Tort
Turounet

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Bruges-Capbis-Mifaget

Asson

Lestelle-Bétharram

Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre

Arthez-d'Asson

Ferrières

Toponymy

The commune name in béarnais is Artés d'Asson. Michel Grosclaude indicated that the name Arthez possibly came from the mediterranean radical arte ("green oak" then "undergrowth"), with the collective basque suffix -etz. He proposed it in the sense of "Vegetation of the undergrowth".^[5]

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Asson	Assoo	11th century	Raymond	15	Saint-Pé	Village
	Assonium	1100	Raymond	15	Titles of Mifaget
	Villa quœe vocatur Asso	12th century	Raymond	15	Lescar
	Assun	13th century	Raymond	15	Fors de Béarn
	La vegarie d'Asson	1450	Raymond	15	Cour Majour
	Saint Paul d'Asson	1750	Cassini
	Saint-Martin d'Asson	1790	Raymond	15

Balirot	Balirot	1863	Raymond	20		Hamlet

Le Bourdalat	Le Bourdalat	1863	Raymond	35		Hamlet

Garrenot	Garrenot	1863	Raymond	67		Hamlet

Sources:

Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (French)^[4]
Cassini: Cassini Map from 1750^[6]

Origins:

Saint-Pé: Cartulary of the Abbey of Saint-Pé^[7]
Lescar: Cartulary of Lescar^[8]
Fors de Béarn^[9]
Cour Majour: Regulations of the Cour Majour^[10]

History

Paul Raymond noted on page 14 of his 1863 dictionary that the commune was formed in 1749 by the union of the hamlets of Arthez-deçà and Arthez-delà from the commune of Asson.^[4]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[11]

From	To	Name	Position
1802		Charles d'Angosse	Chamberlain of the Emperor
1983	1989	Georges Nabarra
1995	2008	Michel Dourau
2008	2020	Jean-Jacques Laffitte

(Not all data is known)

Inter-communality

The commune is part of four inter-communal structures:

the Community of communes of Pays de Nay;
the AEP association of Pays de Nay-Ouest;
the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
the inter-communal association for the construction of the CES of Nay;

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 501 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 towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
1,102	977	1,011	1,148	1,372	1,320	1,380	1,313	1,279

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
1,275	1,220	1,243	1,043	1,075	1,042	1,183	1,137	1,152

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
1,116	1,162	1,179	893	874	850	785	687	621

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
581	538	510	478	466	508	-	501	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Economy

Pasturage at Arthez-d'Asson

The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zone of Ossau-iraty.

Culture and Heritage

The béarnais singing group from Arthez-d'Asson Los de l'Ouzom was created during the 1980s.

Civil Heritage

There was a railway line in the commune transporting minerals from the Baburet Iron Mine.
The old Asson Ironworks was built around 1680.

Religious heritage

The Church of Saint-Paul (1906) is registered as a historical monument.^[12]

Facilities

Arthez-d'Asson has a primary school.

Notable people linked to the commune

Jean-Paul d'Angosse, born in 1732 at Lembeye and died in 1798 at Arthez-d'Asson, was a military man, owner of an ironworks, French politician;
Armand d'Angosse, born in 1776 at Arthez-d'Asson and died in 1852 at Corbère-Abères, owner of an ironworks, French politician;
Charles d'Angosse, born in 1774 at Arthez-d'Asson and died in 1835 at Paris, owner of an ironworks, administrator and French politician.
Jean Espagnolle, born in 1828 at Ferrières and died in 1918 at Arthez-d'Asson, was a churchman, preacher, and an honorary canon;
Henri Bremond, born in 1865 at Aix-en-Provence and died in 1933 at Arthez-d'Asson, was a churchman, historian, and French literary critic, member of the Académie française.

Notes and references

Notes

↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, 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

↑ Inhabitants of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
1 2 3 Google Maps
↑ Géoportail, IGN (French)
1 2 3 Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (French)
↑ Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3 (French)
↑ Cassini Map 1750 – Arthez-d'Asson
↑ Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn (French)
↑ Cartulary of the Bishop of Lescar, published in the proofs of the History of Béarn by Pierre de Marca (French)
↑ Manuscript from the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
↑ Cour Majour of Béarn, register manuscripts from the 15th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
↑ List of Mayors of France (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000598 Church of Saint Paul (French)

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