Le Vernet | |
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 The church of Sainte-Marthe, in Le Vernet | |
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| Coordinates:44°16′37″N6°23′29″E / 44.2769°N 6.3914°E /44.2769; 6.3914 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| Department | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence |
| Arrondissement | Digne-les-Bains |
| Canton | Seyne |
| Intercommunality | CA Provence-Alpes |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | François Balique[1] |
Area 1 | 23.05 km2 (8.90 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 124 |
| • Density | 5.38/km2 (13.9/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 04237 /04140 |
| Elevation | 1,153–2,642 m (3,783–8,668 ft) (avg. 1,200 m or 3,900 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Le Vernet (French pronunciation:[ləvɛʁnɛ];Occitan:Lo Vernet) is acommune in theAlpes-de-Haute-Provencedepartment, and in theregion ofProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in southeasternFrance.
Thename of its inhabitants is Vernetois[3] or Vernetiers.
The village of Le Vernet is located in theBès [fr] Valley at 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) altitude.[4] Its population does not exceed 100 permanent residents, but it is often more than doubled each summer and winter, when the municipality becomes the place of departure for sightseeing excursions, particularly in theBlanche [fr] Valley, and a place of departure for the nearby ski stations (Grand-Puy,Saint-Jean-Montclar [fr] andChabanon).
The municipality has two main villages, Haut-Vernet, perched high and Bas-Vernet below.
During the two last major glaciations, theRiss glaciation and theWürm glaciation, a glacier was present in the upper part of the Riou de la Montagne Valley. During the Riss glaciation, adiffluence [de] of the Blanche glacier crossed the Col de Maure and reached approximately to the location of the village of the current Bas-Vernet. The diffluence was reproduced during the Würm period, but did not reach the territory of Vernet.[5]
ThePic des Têtes, at 2,642 metres (8,668 ft), is located within the territory of the commune, as well as theCol du Labouret [fr], in theMassif des Trois-Évêchés.
The commune comprises 689 hectares (1,700 acres) of woods and forests.[3]
None of the 200 communes of the Department is in the zero seismic risk zone. TheCanton of Seyne, to which Le Vernet belongs, is in zone 1b (low seismicity) determined by the 1991 classification, based on the historicalearthquakes,[6] and in zone 4 (medium risk) according to the probabilistic classification EC8 of 2011.[7] The municipality of Le Vernet is also exposed to four other natural hazards:[7]
The commune of Le Vernet is more exposed to a risk of technological origin, that of transport of dangerous goods by road.[8] Thedepartmentale [fr] RD 900 (the formerRoute nationale 100 [fr]) can be used for the road transport ofdangerous goods.[9]
A predictable naturalrisk prevention plan [fr] (PPR) doesn't exist for the commune[8] andDICRIM [fr] does not exist either.[10]
History remembers two earthquakes to have been strongly felt in the town. They exceeded a macro-seismic intensity level V on theMSK scale (sleepers awake, falling objects). The specified intensities are those felt in the town, the intensity can be stronger at theepicentre:[11]
According to the Fénie couple, the name of Le Vernet refers toalder.[14]
Duringantiquity, theBodiontiques (Bodiontici) lived in theBléone Valley, and were therefore theGallic people who lived in the current municipality of Vernet. The Bodiontiques, who were defeated byAugustus at the same time as other peoples present on theTropaeum Alpium (before 14 BC), are attached to the province ofAlpes Maritimae at its inception.[15]
The town appears for the first time in charters in the 11th century.[16] ThePriory of Saint-Clément was under theAbbey of Saint-Victor inMarseille, via the Priory of Chaudol (now inLa Javie).[17] The priory decided thequestes and thetaille, the lord decided thecavalcade and thealbergue.[17] TheComte of ProvenceRamon Berenguer IV granted to the community, who reported to theBailli ofSeyne, aconsulate [fr] in the 13th century.[16]
In the Middle Ages, the great road ofDigne to Seyne passed, descending from the Col du Labouret, by Haut-Vernet, without following the Bès Valley.[17]
In 1602, the trial exploitation of a vein of copper was cut short, the deposit actually being very poor. As early as 1604, the owners couldn't pay the workers, some were sent toVillevieille andVerdaches. These mines were given a new concession in 1614, without which their operation would never have restarted.[18]
During theFrench Revolution, the town had apatriotic society [fr], created after the end of 1792.[19]
As with many communes of the Department, Le Vernet acquired schools well before theJules Ferry laws: In 1863, it had one each at Haut-Vernet and Bas-Vernet, which provide aprimary education for boys.[20] While theFalloux Laws of 1851 required the opening of a girls school for communes with more than 800 inhabitants,[21] and the firstDuruy Law [fr] of 1867 lowered the threshold to 500 inhabitants, Le Vernet nevertheless opened a school for girls, ahead of the laws.[22] The commune took advantage of subsidies from the second Duruy Law in 1877 to build a new school at Haut-Vernet.[23]
On 24 March 2015,Germanwings Flight 9525, anAirbus A320 flying fromBarcelona toDüsseldorf, crashed in the mountains of the neighboring commune of Prads-Haute-Bléone, near to the border with Le Vernet.
| Start | End | Name | Party | Other details |
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| May 1945 | Paul Mathieu[24] | |||
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| 1977[25] | In progress (as of 21 October 2014) | François Balique[25][26][27][28] | President of the Community of communes |
In 2017, Le Vernet had 123 inhabitants. From the 21st century, communes with less than 10,000 inhabitants have a census held every five years (2004, 2009 and 2014, etc. for the Vernet). Since 2004, the other figures are estimates.
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| Population without double counting from 1962 to 1999; municipal population from 2006 Source:Baratier [fr],Georges Duby &Hildesheimer [fr] for the Ancien Régime,[16] EHESS (1793-1999)[29] and INSEE (1968-2017)[30] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The demographic history of Le Vernet, after the depopulation of the 14th and 15th centuries and long movement of growth until the beginning of the 19th century, is marked by a period of 'spread' where the population remains stable at a high level. This period lasts from 1806 to 1846. Therural exodus [fr] then caused a rapid decline in population, most importantly a long-term movement. Between 1911 and 1921, the municipality records the loss of more than half of its population (relative to the historic maximum).[31] The downward movement is interrupted only in the 1980s. Since then, the population has doubled.
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The town depends on theAcademy of Aix-Marseille [fr].[32] It has a primary school, consisting of 9 students.[33]
The Catholic parish of Le Vernet depends on the Diocese of Digne, Riez and Sisteron.[34]
In Bas-Vernet, the parish church of Sainte-Marthe dates from the 19th century.[17]
At Haut-Vernet, the Saint-Martin Church[17] is also from the 19th century.
The chapel of Saint-Pancrace, isolated above Haut-Vernet, is the old parish church. Ruined by theEuropean wars of religion, it was rebuilt, and its roof was repaired again in the 20th century.[17]
| The arms of Prads-Haute-Bléone areblazoned : Gold to a tree of vert on a terrace of the same docked two stars of gules.[35] |
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