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Asnières en Bessin

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Calvados

Intercommunality
  
Trévières

Area
  
4.61 km²

Arrondissement
  
Bayeux

Region
  
Normandy

Canton
  
Isigny-sur-Mer

Population (2010)
  
58

Local time
  
Sunday 9:00 PM

Asnières-en-Bessin

Weather
  
11°C, Wind S at 27 km/h, 73% Humidity

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Asnières-en-Bessin is a French commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

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Map of 14710 Asni%C3%A8res-en-Bessin, France

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asnièrois or Asnièroises.

Geography

Asnières-en-Bessin is located some 17 km west by north-west of Bayeux, 3 km west of Vierville-sur-Mer, and 4 km north by north-east of Longueville. Access to the commune is by the D194 road from Louvières in the east passing through the north of the commune and the village and continuing west to Cricqueville-en-Bessin. The D198 road goes south from the village through the length of the commune and continues to Aignerville. There is the hamlet of Le Temple just south of the village and Montigny in the south of the commune. The commune is entirely farmland.

The Veret river flows through the centre of the commune from east to west and continues west then north-west to the sea at the Pont du Hable.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 58 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)

Sites and monuments

  • Château of Asnières-en-Bessin, built in 1693, rebuilt in 1783.

    • Notable people linked to the commune

  • Arthur Le Duc (1848-1918), sculptor, was the Mayor of the commune from 1893 to his death in 1918.
  • Albert Anne (1908-1944), a member of the resistance in the Alliance network, (A resistance network in the interior of France during the Second World War) he was arrested by the Gestapo on 5 May 1944 at Asnières-en-Bessin, where he had used his skills as a forger, and he was executed at Caen jail on 6 June 1944.

    • References

    Asnières-en-Bessin Wikipedia
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