Arvieu

The Lake of Pareloup

Coat of arms

Arvieu

Location within Occitanie region

Arvieu

Coordinates: 44°11′29″N 2°39′43″E / 44.1914°N 2.6619°ECoordinates: 44°11′29″N 2°39′43″E / 44.1914°N 2.6619°E

Country

Cassagnes-Bégonhès

Lévézou Pareloup

Government

• Mayor (2014–2020)

Gilles Bounhol

Area¹

46.91 km² (18.11 sq mi)

Population (2010)²

865

• Density

18/km² (48/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

12011 / 12120

Elevation

606–929 m (1,988–3,048 ft)
(avg. 730 m or 2,400 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.

Arvieu (Occitan: Arviu) is a French commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of southern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arvieunois or Arvieunoises.^[1]

Geography

Arvieu is located some 23 km south by south-east of Rodez and 7 km north of Alrance. Access to the commune is by the D56 road from Pont-de-Salars in the north-east passing through the commune and the village and continuing south to Durenque. The D82 branches off the D56 north of the village and goes north to Flavin. The D577 branches off the D56 in the south of the commune and goes west to Salmiech. The commune is entirely farmland except for some small patches of forest.^[2]

The eastern border of the commune is the Lac de Pareloup. The Céor river rises in the east of the commune and flows west through the village then south forming part of the western border before continuing west to join the Viaur at Saint-Just-sur-Viaur. The Ruisseau de Glauzeilles rises in the north of the commune flowing west then south-west, forming the north-eastern border of the commune, to join the Céor. The Ruisseau de Calieres rises in the east of the commune and flows north to join the Vioulou just north of the commune.^[2]

Places and hamlets^[3]

Les Auglanes
Aurifeuille
Beauregard
Bel-Air
Bellevue
Le Besset
Bois de Nouet
Bois Grand
Bonneviale
Le Bose
La Brauge
La Calmette
Caplongue
Cayras
Cayras Bas
Les Cazals
Clauzelles
Clauzellou
Les Combes
Le Coutal
La Croix de l'Ouradou
Dournets
Dours
Espinous
Espinouset
Fau du Dours
Les Faux
Font Bonne
Fouleties
Galinieres
Gilergues
Ginestous
Girman Bas
Girman Haut
La Graille
Grelac
Lalic
La Lumiere
Mas Roux
Le Mas Roussel
Le Mas Vayssettes
Montginoux
Montredon
Le Mouli
Le Moulin d'Aigles
Le Moulin de la Gineste
N.-D d'Aures
Pareloup
Le Pouget
La Pendarie
Pierrefiche
Pauhle Rouby
La Pendarie
La Plane
Le Puech
Puech d'Anglas
Puech Cabane
Le Puech de Clauzelles
Puech d'Espinous
Puech de Girman
Le Puech Granier
Puech de Grima
Puech Grimal
Le Rhan
Les Rials
Rochers du Diable
le Roucan
Rougeviale
Routaboul
Le Rueillou
Saint-Martin des Faux (partly in Arvieu and partly in Salles-Curan)
Serieux
Les Sottes
Tredos
Ventajou

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Arvieu

Auriac-Lagast

Alrance

History

There are traces of the Gallo-Romans
In the 16th century the village was besieged
In the 18th century the Vigouroux family of Rodez bought the Lordship
The Arvieu Affair: The village was attacked by a band of counter-revolutionaries from the former Army of Charrié who hid in the Palanges Forest. The house of Citizen Bonnefous, the leading citizen of the commune, was pillaged. Many people were accused of supporting the attackers who were from the de Barrau family of Carcenac-Salmiech.^[4]
The ramparts were destroyed in the 19th century.

Heraldry

	Blazon: Party per bend sinister, at 1 Azure with a Cross of Malta of Or; at 2 Gules, a lion Argent.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[5]

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1941

From	To	Name
1789	1793	Pierre Lacombe
1793	1796	Jean Blancpauly
1796	1797	Joseph Dufieu
1797	1799	Amans Gaubert
1799	1801	François Robert
1801	1816	Léonard Bonnefous
1816	1821	Pierre Long
1821	1826	Léonard Bonnefous
1826	1830	Pierre Long
1830	1843	Régis Dufieu
1843	1848	Léonard Bonnefous
1848	1851	Hippolyte Bonnefous
1851	1854	Gervais Rigal
1854	1865	Jean Cayron
1865	1879	Hippolyte Bonnefous
1879	1892	Antoine Capron
1892	1901	Hippolyte Bonnefous
1901	1904	Pierre Salbat
1904	1913	Hippolyte Bonnefous
1913	1929	Victor Espinasse
1929	1935	Hervé Canac
1935	1941	Justin Fabie

Mayors from 1941

From	To	Name
1941	1945	Victor Boudes
1945	1950	Justin Mai
1950	1965	Ernest Thubieres
1965	1983	Raymond Almes
1983	1995	Léonce Terral
1995	2008	Raymond Vaysettes
2008	2014	Claudine Bru
2014	2020	Gilles Bounhol

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 865 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
1,247	722	1,029	1,314	1,480	1,677	1,661	1,589	1,559

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
1,587	1,572	1,567	1,543	1,538	1,533	1,516	1,437	1,580

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
1,630	1,609	1,659	1,444	1,526	1,525	1,466	1,415	1,394

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
1,282	1,234	1,093	1,082	925	880	-	865	-

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

Culture and heritage

Chapel of Notre-Dame d'Aures

Civil heritage

A Feudal Château Sainte-Famille (a former convent).
The Château of Saint-Louis (now the Town Hall).
The Château of Montfranc (Arvieu, private property).
A Pond, Mill, and Lavoir (Public laundry) at Arvieu.

Religious heritage

The Statue of Saint Foy

The Church of Notre-Dame d'Aures (12th centuries) is registered as an historical monument.^[6] The church contains a Statue of Saint Foy (15th century) which is registered as an historical object.^[7]
The Parish Church of Saint-Amans at Arvieu had a Painting: The Assumption of the Virgin (disappeared) (1850) which is registered as an historical object.^[8]
The Church of Saint-Saturnin or Saint-Sernin at Caplongue.
The Church of Saint-Martin at Faux.
The Chapel of Saint-André at Clauzelles.

Notable people linked to the commune

Jean Dupin, (1936-), former senior Post Office official, wrote seven novels set in Lévézou, originally from Arvieu village.
Joël Serin, former secretary in the Town Hall.
Henri Grimal, born in Arvieu in 1910, academic and historian.

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 Aveyron (French)
1 2 3 Google Maps
↑ Géoportail, IGN, consulted on 4 May 2014 (French)
↑ Henri Grimal, The Affair of Arvieu (October 1793), Revue du Rouergue, No. 87, New series, Autumn 2006, pp. 349 to 382. (French)
↑ List of Mayors of France (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA12000030 Church of Notre-Dame d'Aures (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM12000002 Statue: Saint Foy (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM12000212 Painting: Assumption of the Virgin (French)

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