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Country
  
France

Department
  
Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Intercommunality
  
Pays de Nay

Area
  
7.32 km²

Region
  
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Canton
  
Nay-Ouest

Population (2010)
  
501

Arrondissement
  
Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

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Arthez-d'Asson (Occitan: Artés d'Asson) is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

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Map of 64800 Arthez-d'Asson, France

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arthéziens or Arthéziennes

Geography

Arthez-d'Asson is in the Ouzom Valley some 30 km south by south-east of Pau and 35 km east by south-east of Oloron-Sainte-Marie. The commune is almost entirely surrounded by the commune of Asson. Access to the commune is by road D126 which comes from Asson in the north passing through the commune and the village, continuing south up the Valley to Ferrières. The commune is almost entirely farmland although with patches of forest particularly along the river.

The Ouzom River flows through the length of the commune from south to north gathering some tributaries on the right bank, such as the Cau du Hau, the Cau du Gat, the Arriou Sec, and the Cau de la Heche, and continuing north to join the Gave de Pau near Coarraze.The Ruisseau de Thouet forms the north-western border of the commune as it flows north-east to join the Ouzom.

Toponymy

The commune name in béarnais is Artés d'Asson. Michel Grosclaude indicated that the name Arthez possibly came from the mediterranean radical arte ("green oak" then "undergrowth"), with the collective basque suffix -etz. He proposed it in the sense of "Vegetation of the undergrowth".

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Sources:

  • Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (French)
  • Cassini: Cassini Map from 1750

    • Origins:

  • Saint-Pé: Cartulary of the Abbey of Saint-Pé
  • Lescar: Cartulary of Lescar
  • Fors de Béarn
  • Cour Majour: Regulations of the Cour Majour

    • History

    Paul Raymond noted on page 14 of his 1863 dictionary that the commune was formed in 1749 by the union of the hamlets of Arthez-deçà and Arthez-delà from the commune of Asson.

    Administration

    List of Successive Mayors

    (Not all data is known)

    Inter-communality

    The commune is part of four inter-communal structures:

  • the Community of communes of Pays de Nay;
  • the AEP association of Pays de Nay-Ouest;
  • the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
  • the inter-communal association for the construction of the CES of Nay;

    • Demography

    In 2010 the commune had 501 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.

    Population Change (See database)

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

    Economy

    The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zone of Ossau-iraty.

    Culture and Heritage

    The béarnais singing group from Arthez-d'Asson Los de l'Ouzom was created during the 1980s.

    Civil Heritage

  • There was a railway line in the commune transporting minerals from the Baburet Iron Mine.
  • The old Asson Ironworks was built around 1680.

    • Religious heritage

    The Church of Saint-Paul (1906) is registered as a historical monument.

    Facilities

    Arthez-d'Asson has a primary school.

    Notable people linked to the commune

  • Jean-Paul d'Angosse, born in 1732 at Lembeye and died in 1798 at Arthez-d'Asson, was a military man, owner of an ironworks, French politician;
  • Armand d'Angosse, born in 1776 at Arthez-d'Asson and died in 1852 at Corbère-Abères, owner of an ironworks, French politician;
  • Charles d'Angosse, born in 1774 at Arthez-d'Asson and died in 1835 at Paris, owner of an ironworks, administrator and French politician.
  • Jean Espagnolle, born in 1828 at Ferrières and died in 1918 at Arthez-d'Asson, was a churchman, preacher, and an honorary canon;
  • Henri Bremond, born in 1865 at Aix-en-Provence and died in 1933 at Arthez-d'Asson, was a churchman, historian, and French literary critic, member of the Académie française.

    • References

    Arthez-d'Asson Wikipedia
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