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
CountryFrance
RegionGrand Est
DepartmentArdennes
ArrondissementVouziers
CantonAttigny
IntercommunalityCC Argonne Ardennaise
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Michel Cartelet
Area
1
12.72 km2 (4.91 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
48
 • Density3.8/km2 (9.8/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
08031 /08400
Elevation118–191 m (387–627 ft)
(avg. 135 m or 443 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (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]

FromToNamePartyPosition
19952020Michel Cartelet

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 48 inhabitants.

Historical population
YearPop.±% 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%
YearPop.±% 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]
  • Public toilet
  • Grain Silo
  • War memorial close-up
  • The Church
  • Entrance to the church
  • Entrance to the village
  • The Bomb

See also

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)
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