Assenay

Assenay is a commune in the Aube department in the Grand Est region of north-central France.

Assenay
Commune
War memorial
Location of Assenay
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Coordinates: 48°11′00″N 4°03′36″E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Aube
Arrondissement	Troyes
Canton	Les Riceys
Intercommunality	CA Troyes Champagne Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	David Garnerin
Area ^1	3.42 km^2 (1.32 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	146
• Density	43/km^2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	10013 /10320
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asnacussiens.[2]

Geography

Assenay is located some 12 km south of Saint-André-les-Vergers and 4 km east by north-east of Villery. Access to the commune is by the D1 23 road from Saint-Jean-de-Bonneval in the south-west passing through the village and continuing to Villy-le-Maréchal in the north-east. The D 25 road from Saint-Jean-de-Bonneval to Moussey also passes through the north of the commune. Apart from a few scattered patches of forest the commune is entirely farmland.[3]

The Mogne river flows through the south of the commune from south-west to north-east. The Ruisseau d'Ormont flows eastwards through the village to join the Mogne east of the commune.[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Administration

List of Successive Mayors[4]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
	1857	Horlot
2001	2020	David Garnerin

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 146 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 157 —     1800 172 +1.31% 1806 172 +0.00% 1821 165 −0.28% 1831 151 −0.88% 1836 162 +1.42% 1841 152 −1.27% 1846 150 −0.26% 1851 148 −0.27% 1856 142 −0.82% 1861 138 −0.57% 1866 121 −2.59% 1872 107 −2.03% 1876 91 −3.97% 1881 100 +1.90% 1886 90 −2.09% 1891 93 +0.66% 1896 94 +0.21%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 77 −3.91% 1906 69 −2.17% 1911 59 −3.08% 1921 50 −1.64% 1926 55 +1.92% 1931 59 +1.41% 1936 56 −1.04% 1946 44 −2.38% 1954 38 −1.82% 1962 43 +1.56% 1968 46 +1.13% 1975 64 +4.83% 1982 63 −0.22% 1990 77 +2.54% 1999 95 +2.36% 2007 141 +5.06% 2012 155 +1.91% 2017 146 −1.19%
Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE[6]

See also

• Communes of the Aube department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Inhabitants of Aube (in French)
3. Google Maps
4. List of Mayors of France (in French)
5. Données Cassini, EHESS
6. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

External links

• Assenay on the old IGN website (in French)
• Assenay on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Assenay on the 1750 Cassini Map