Aure, Ardennes

Aure is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

Aure
Commune
The Aure War memorial
Location of Aure
Aure Aure
Coordinates: 49°16′29″N 4°38′11″E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Ardennes
Arrondissement	Vouziers
Canton	Attigny
Intercommunality	CC Argonne Ardennaise
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Michel Cartelet
Area ^1	12.72 km^2 (4.91 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	48
• Density	3.8/km^2 (9.8/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	08031 /08400
Elevation	118–191 m (387–627 ft) (avg. 135 m or 443 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Aure is located some 55 km east of Reims and some 20 km south by south-west of Vouziers. The western border of the commune is the border between Ardennes and Marne departments. Access to the commune is by road D6 from Manre in the south-east which passes through the village and continues south-west, changing to the D20 in Marne, to Sommepy-Tahure. The D306 goes north-east from the village to Monthois. The commune is entirely farmland.[2]

The Allin river rises near the village and flows south-east to eventually join the Aisne at Brécy-Brières.[2]

History

Aure is cited in a poem by Louis Aragon Le conscrit des cent villages (The conscript of 100 villages) written as an act of intellectual resistance in a clandestine manner in 1943.[3]

French Decorations

Croix de guerre 1914-1918: awarded on 1 March 1921.

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors[4]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2020	Michel Cartelet

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 48 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 131 —     1800 136 +0.54% 1806 138 +0.24% 1821 152 +0.65% 1831 162 +0.64% 1836 166 +0.49% 1841 154 −1.49% 1846 167 +1.63% 1851 146 −2.65% 1866 150 +0.18% 1872 122 −3.38% 1876 133 +2.18% 1881 164 +4.28% 1886 147 −2.16% 1891 146 −0.14% 1896 127 −2.75% 1901 106 −3.55%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 111 +0.93% 1911 113 +0.36% 1921 100 −1.21% 1926 103 +0.59% 1931 98 −0.99% 1936 90 −1.69% 1946 105 +1.55% 1954 117 +1.36% 1962 102 −1.70% 1968 89 −2.25% 1975 74 −2.60% 1982 66 −1.62% 1990 56 −2.03% 1999 46 −2.16% 2007 62 +3.80% 2012 49 −4.60% 2017 48 −0.41%
Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE[6]

The Church

Bus Stop

Notable people linked to the commune

• Auguste Achile Baudart, Colonel of the 122nd Infantry Regiment of the Line, born in Aure on 16 November 1844 from a farming family, died at Montpellier on 15 December 1898.[7]

Photo gallery

• 
  Public toilet
• 
  Grain Silo
• 
  War memorial close-up
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  The Church
• 
  Entrance to the church
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  Entrance to the village
• 
  The Bomb

See also

• Communes of the Ardennes department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Google Maps
3. Louis Aragon, Le Conscrit des cent villages, initially published in La Diane française, consulted in Pierre Seghers, The Resistance and its poets: France, 1940-1945, Paris, Seghers, 2004 (2nd edition), ISBN 2-232-12242-5, p. 373-375 (in French)
4. List of Mayors of France (in French)
5. Données Cassini, EHESS
6. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
7. Almanach, Matot-Braine, 1900, Reims (in French)

External links

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