Les Albres

Les Albres
Commune
A street in Les Albres
Location of Les Albres
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Coordinates: 44°32′19″N 2°10′27″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Aveyron
Arrondissement	Villefranche-de-Rouergue
Canton	Lot et Montbazinois
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Bernard Jonquières
Area 1	15.22 km2 (5.88 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	343
• Density	23/km2 (58/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	12003 /12220
Elevation	223–541 m (732–1,775 ft) (avg. 495 m or 1,624 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Les Albres (French pronunciation: [le.z‿albʁ]) is a commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of southern France.

Geography

Les Albres is located some 15 km south-east of Figeac and 5 km west of Decazeville. It can be accessed on the D994 road from Asprières in the west, passing through the village and continuing south-east to Montbazens. There is also the D144 small and winding road from Bouillac in the north and the D22 road branching from the D5 in the east and coming to the village via a tortuous route. The commune is mostly farmland with about 30% of the area forested. There are several hamlets other than the village. These are:

• Bor
• Brayes
• Gabriac
• La Bastidie
• La Revelie
• Les Hens
• Les Parras
• Malaret

Numerous streams rise in the commune and mostly flow south-east. The Ruisseau de l'Estang forms the western border of the commune but most of the other streams are unnamed. There are a number of small lakes and ponds scattered through the commune

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name
1878	1882	Léon Piales
1882	1904	Jean-Louis Boisse
1904	1929	Justin Boisse
1929	1945	André Alleguede
1945	1971	Georges Combres
1971	1977	Jean-Marie Bousquet
1977	1995	Claude Molieres
1995	2026	Bernard Jonquières

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Albrégeois or Albrégeoises in French. The commune existed in 1793 but in 1834 joined the commune of Asprières together with Vernet-le-Haut. In 1877 however it was separated again. In 1974 it joined the commune of Viviez but again in 1978 it separated.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 483 —     1800 501 +0.52% 1881 675 +0.37% 1886 670 −0.15% 1891 658 −0.36% 1896 620 −1.18% 1901 593 −0.89% 1906 608 +0.50% 1911 604 −0.13% 1921 583 −0.35% 1926 542 −1.45% 1931 528 −0.52%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1936 500 −1.08% 1946 480 −0.41% 1954 450 −0.80% 1962 438 −0.34% 1968 418 −0.78% 1975 418 +0.00% 1982 389 −1.02% 1990 342 −1.60% 1999 330 −0.40% 2007 353 +0.85% 2012 331 −1.28% 2017 346 +0.89%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

Les Albres Church

Notable people linked to the commune

• Father Augustin Brassac was born in Brayes hamlet in Les Albres commune in 1873 and was ordained a priest in 1896. Described later in the new edition of the Biblical Handbook by Father Vigouroux, Father Brassac was deemed by Rome to be too "modernist". All his writings were blacklisted in 1923. Barred from teaching, he was appointed curate at Saint-Supice and he died in 1941. He was partly rehabilitated in 1943 by the encyclical Divino afflante which authorized the historical-critical method in Catholic theology.

See also

• Communes of the Aveyron department

Bibliography

• Christian-Pierre Bedel, preface by Jacques Dournes, Capdenac, Los Aures, Asprièras, Balaguièr, Bolhac, Causse-e-Diège, Foissac, Naussac, Salas, Sonnac / Christian-Pierre Bedel e los estatjants del canton de Capdenac, Rodez, Mission départementale de la culture, 1996, A1 canton collection, 240 pages, ill., cov. ill. 28 cm, ISBN 2-907279-23-8, ISSN 1151-8375, BnF 36688708h (in Occitan and French)

External links

• Les Albres on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• les Arbres on the 1750 Cassini Map