Les Albres

Les Albres (French pronunciation: ​[le.z‿albʁ]) is a commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of southern France.

Les Albres
Commune
A street in Les Albres
Location of Les Albres
Les Albres
Les Albres
Coordinates: 44°32′19″N 2°10′27″E
CountryFrance
RegionOccitanie
DepartmentAveyron
ArrondissementVillefranche-de-Rouergue
CantonLot et Montbazinois
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Bernard Jonquières
Area
1
15.22 km2 (5.88 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
346
 • Density23/km2 (59/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
12003 /12220
Elevation223–541 m (732–1,775 ft)
(avg. 495 m or 1,624 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Albrégeois or Albrégeoises [2]

Geography

Les Albres is located some 15 km south-east of Figeac and 5 km west of Decazeville. It can be accessed on the D994 road from Asprières in the west, passing through the village and continuing south-east to Montbazens. There is also the D144 small and winding road from Bouillac in the north and the D22 road branching from the D5 in the east and coming to the village via a tortuous route. The commune is mostly farmland with about 30% of the area forested. There are several hamlets other than the village. These are:

  • Bor
  • Brayes
  • Gabriac
  • La Bastidie
  • La Revelie
  • Les Hens
  • Les Parras
  • Malaret

Numerous streams rise in the commune and mostly flow south-east. The Ruisseau de l'Estang forms the western border of the commune but most of the other streams are unnamed. There are a number of small lakes and ponds scattered through the commune[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages[3]

Administration
The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors[4]

FromToNamePartyPosition
18781882Léon Piales
18821904Jean-Louis Boisse
19041929Justin Boisse
19291945André Alleguede
19451971Georges Combres
19711977Jean-Marie Bousquet
19771995Claude Molieres
19952026Bernard Jonquieres

(Not all data is known)

Demography

The commune existed in 1793 but in 1834 joined the commune of Asprières together with Vernet-le-Haut. In 1877 however it was separated again. In 1974 it joined the commune of Viviez but again in 1978 it separated.[5] In 2017, the commune had 346 inhabitants.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 483—    
1800 501+0.52%
1881 675+0.37%
1886 670−0.15%
1891 658−0.36%
1896 620−1.18%
1901 593−0.89%
1906 608+0.50%
1911 604−0.13%
1921 583−0.35%
1926 542−1.45%
1931 528−0.52%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1936 500−1.08%
1946 480−0.41%
1954 450−0.80%
1962 438−0.34%
1968 418−0.78%
1975 418+0.00%
1982 389−1.02%
1990 342−1.60%
1999 330−0.40%
2007 353+0.85%
2012 331−1.28%
2017 346+0.89%
Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE[6]
Les Albres Church

Notable people linked to the commune
  • Father Augustin Brassac was born in Brayes hamlet in Les Albres commune in 1873 and was ordained a priest in 1896. Described later in the new edition of the Biblical Handbook by Father Vigouroux, Father Brassac was deemed by Rome to be too "modernist". All his writings were blacklisted in 1923. Barred from teaching, he was appointed curate at Saint-Supice and he died in 1941. He was partly rehabilitated in 1943 by the encyclical Divino afflante which authorized the historical-critical method in Catholic theology.

See also

Bibliography
  • Christian-Pierre Bedel, preface by Jacques Dournes, Capdenac, Los Aures, Asprièras, Balaguièr, Bolhac, Causse-e-Diège, Foissac, Naussac, Salas, Sonnac / Christian-Pierre Bedel e los estatjants del canton de Capdenac, Rodez, Mission départementale de la culture, 1996, A1 canton collection, 240 pages, ill., cov. ill. 28 cm, ISBN 2-907279-23-8, ISSN 1151-8375, BnF 36688708h (in Occitan and French)

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Inhabitants of Aveyron (in French)
  3. Google Maps
  4. List of Mayors of France
  5. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Les Albres, EHESS. (in French)
  6. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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