Auge, Ardennes

Auge
Entry to the village
Coat of arms
Auge
Location within Grand Est region  Auge
Coordinates: 49°51′41″N 4°16′15″E / 49.8614°N 4.2708°ECoordinates: 49°51′41″N 4°16′15″E / 49.8614°N 4.2708°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Ardennes
Arrondissement	Charleville-Mézières
Canton	Signy-le-Petit
Intercommunality	Ardennes Thiérache
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Jean-Yves Chevanne
Area^1	4.5 km^2 (1.7 sq mi)
Population (2010)^2	52
• Density	12/km^2 (30/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	08030 / 08380
Elevation	199–262 m (653–860 ft) (avg. 250 m or 820 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Auge is a French commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

Geography

Auge is located some 45 km west by north-west of Charleville-Mézières and 22 km east by south-east of Hirson. The western border of the commune is the border between the departments of Ardennes and Aisne. Access to the commune is by the European route E44 (D 8043) from Hirson which passes through the north of the commune and continues east to Maubert-Fontaine. Access to the village is by either the Grande Rue or by the Ruelle de l'Église which both branch south from the E44. Apart from a band of forest on the south-eastern border (The Bois de Moirvaux) and some patches of forest in the south-west the commune is entirely farmland.^[1]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[1]

Toponymy

The name of the town was written Ogiae in 1112 in a privilege of Pope Paschal II to the Abbey of Saint-Nicaise in Reims and as Oggeium in a bull of Innocent II for the same monastery at Reims.^[2]

History

This site has been on an ancient road between Mézières and the North since Classical Antiquity. Gallo-Roman foundations, coins, and pieces of pottery have been found.^[3]

Heraldry

Blazon: Party per bend sinister, at 1 Azure, three mullets of Or in orle; at 2 Gules, a cock of Or.

Administration

La tour du vent Farm

The Town Hall

The Lavoir (Public laundry)

the Church of Saint-Gorgery

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2008	André Triplot
2008	2020	Jean-Yves Chevanne

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 52 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.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
148	147	78	145	158	160	177	183	232

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
-	-	189	175	174	174	177	173	169

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
148	142	121	126	114	105	114	112	95

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
95	82	72	66	69	69	69	52	-

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

Sites and monuments

The Tombstone of Jacques de Corderand, his wife, and his son (18th century) in the Church of Saint-Gorgery is registered as an historical object.^[5]

Notable people linked to the commune

Ardennes Red Turkey

• Jean-Michel Devresse, a farmer at Auge, relaunched livestock farming of Ardennes Red Turkeys (Dindon rouge des Ardennes) in 1985, so that this species would not disappear.

See also

• Communes of the Ardennes department

External links

• Auge on Google Maps
• Auge on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Auge on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Auge on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)

Notes and references

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

1. Google Maps
2. Auguste Longnon, Study on the pagi of Gaul, Honoré Champion, Paris, 1977, Reprint of the Paris edition of 1869. (French)
3. Blaise Pichon, Archaeological Map of Gaul: 02. Aisne, Volume 2, 2003, p.292 (French)
4. List of Mayors of France (French)
5. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM08000032 Tombstone of Jacques de Corderand, his wife, and his son (French)