Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Auriac (French pronunciation: [oʁjak] ⓘ ) is acommune in thePyrénées-Atlantiques department in theNouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-westernFrance .
Auriac is located some 20 km north ofPau just east ofArgelos . Access to the commune is by road D834 fromSarron in the north which passes through the commune and continues to Pau in the south. Access to the village is by road D944 from the village toThèze in the north-west and the D227 from the village toSévignacq in the south-east. TheA55 autoroute passes through the north of the commune with Exit 9 just north-east of the commune giving access to road D834. The commune is mixed forest and farmland.[ 3]
Alpin Baix Bernède Blanc Calot Camot Cassagne Cazaudehore[ 4] Chin Cournau Duclos Fam Hourticq Laborde Madaune Maribat Moulin de Mugain Mounpézat Pénouilh Périco Pierroulou Porte[ 5] Poudgé Rey Ser (forest) [ 6]
Neighbouring communes and villages [ edit ]
Places adjacent to Auriac, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
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Entry to Auriac Exit from Auriac The commune name inbéarnais isAuriac .Michel Grosclaude said that the name probably comes from theLatin man's nameAurius with the Gallo-Roman suffix-acum giving "Domain of Aurius".[ 7]
The following table shows the origin of the commune name:
Name Spelling Date Source Page Origin Description Auriac Auriag 1096 Raymond 17
Marka Village Auriac 1750 Cassini
Sources:
Origins:
Paul Raymond noted that Auriac was once an annex ofArgelos .[ 8]
List of Successive Mayors [ 11]
Mayors from 1824 to 1940
From To Name 1824 1829 Augustin Baix 1829 1831 Jean Bertrand 1831 1836 Augustin Baix 1836 1837 Pierre Madaune 1837 1864 Pierre Julien Viguerie 1864 1899 Justin Madaune 1899 1908 Jean Philippe Madaune 1908 1911 Maurice Rey 1911 1919 André Madaune 1919 1929 Jean Soubré 1929 1939 André Madaune 1939 1940 Jean Touret
Old Town Hall The current Town Hall Mayors from 1940 From To Name 1940 1942 Jean Evrard 1942 1944 Pierre Boué-Cam 1944 1945 Joseph Soubré 1945 1948 René Rey 1948 1949 Pierre Clauzet 1949 1951 Jean Maribat 1951 1951 Joseph Soubré 1951 1953 Pierre Boué-Cam 1953 1959 René Rey 1959 1962 Pierre Clauzet 1962 1963 René Rey 1965 1971 Claude Larrieu 1971 1977 Henri Hélip 1977 1993 Marc Rey 1993 2020 Christian Larrouturou 2020 2026 Jean-Claude Vignes
The commune is part of five inter-communal structures:
the Communauté de communes des Luys en Béarn; the SIVU for collective sanitation Auriac-Miossens-Lanusse-Thèze the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques; the inter-communal association for the management of drinking water from the Luy-Gabas-Lées; the inter-communal association of Garlède-Lalonquette; The inhabitants of the commune are known asAuriacois orAuriacoises in French.[ 12]
Historical population Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1831 317 — 1836 351 +2.06% 1841 330 −1.23% 1846 352 +1.30% 1851 340 −0.69% 1856 339 −0.06% 1861 293 −2.87% 1866 283 −0.69% 1872 287 +0.23% 1876 284 −0.26% 1881 277 −0.50% 1886 257 −1.49% 1891 223 −2.80% 1896 226 +0.27% 1901 227 +0.09% 1906 231 +0.35%
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1911 219 −1.06% 1921 189 −1.46% 1926 176 −1.42% 1931 179 +0.34% 1936 184 +0.55% 1946 182 −0.11% 1954 179 −0.21% 1962 163 −1.16% 1968 153 −1.05% 1975 167 +1.26% 1982 166 −0.09% 1990 180 +1.02% 1999 209 +1.67% 2007 247 +2.11% 2012 244 −0.24% 2017 238 −0.50%
Source: EHESS[ 13] and INSEE[ 14]
Culture and heritage [ edit ] An Auriac Farmhouse The commune has a number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
AHouse at Porte (16th century)[ 5] AHouse at Cazaudehore (19th century)[ 4] Houses and Farms (16th and 19th centuries)[ 15] The Church of Saint-François-de-Sales The commune has two religious buildings that are registered as historical monuments:
TheParish Church of Saint-François-de-Sales (18th century) (destroyed)[ 16] TheParish Church of Saint-François-de-Sales (1885).[ 17] This church was built in 1885 to replace the old church of the same name which appeared on theCassini Map . The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects: Auriac has a primary school which also serves the communes ofGarlède-Mondebat ,Lalonquette etMiossens-Lanusse in an Educational Inter-communal Grouping.
^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.^a b Google Maps ^a b Ministry of Culture, MériméeIA00026731 House at Cazaudehore (in French) ^a b Ministry of Culture, MériméeIA00026732 House at Porte (in French) ^ Géoportail ,IGN (in French) ^a b Michel Grosclaude ,Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn , Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages,ISBN 2-35068-005-3 (in French) ^a b Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees , p. 17,Paul Raymond , Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011(in French) ^ Cassini Map 1750 - Auriac ^ Pierre de Marca ,History of Béarn p. 356^ List of Mayors of France (in French) ^ Pyrénées-Atlantiques , habitants.fr^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui :Commune data sheet Auriac ,EHESS (in French) .^ Population en historique depuis 1968 , INSEE^ Ministry of Culture, MériméeIA00026729 Houses and Farms (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, MériméeIA00027931 Church of Saint-François-de-Sales (destroyed) (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, MériméeIA00027930 Church of Saint-François-de-Sales (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, PalissyIM64001186 Furniture in the Church (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, PalissyIM64001185 Chasuble (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, PalissyIM64001184 Sun-ray Monstrance (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, PalissyIM64001183 2 Altar Candlesticks (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, PalissyIM64001182 Chalice (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, PalissyIM64001181 Prie-dieux (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, PalissyIM64001180 Stoup (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, PalissyIM64001179 2 Altars, 4 altar seatings, and 2 Tabernacles (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, PalissyIM64001178 Altar, 2 altar seatings, a Tabernacle, and 2 Statues (in French) ^ Ministry of Culture, PalissyIM64001177 3 Stained glass windows of people: Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Michael protecting a canon, and Saint John (in French)