Autry

Autry
The Lavoir (Public laundry) in Autry
Coat of arms
Autry
Location within Grand Est region  Autry
Coordinates: 49°16′09″N 4°50′16″E / 49.2692°N 4.8378°ECoordinates: 49°16′09″N 4°50′16″E / 49.2692°N 4.8378°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Ardennes
Arrondissement	Vouziers
Canton	Monthois
Intercommunality	Argonne Ardennaise
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Pascal Boxebeld
Area^1	16.34 km^2 (6.31 sq mi)
Population (2010)^2	140
• Density	8.6/km^2 (22/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	08036 / 08250
Elevation	110–168 m (361–551 ft) (avg. 121 m or 397 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.

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

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Autryens or Autryennes.^[1]

Geography

Entrance to the village

Autry is located some 50 km east of Reims and 25 km north by north-west of Sainte-Menehould. The southern border of the commune is the departmental boundary between Ardennes and Marne. Access to the commune is by road D21 from Challerange in the north-west which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues to Binarville in the south-east after changing to the D63 at the departmental border. The D218 goes west from the village to Bouconville and the D41 goes north-east to Lançon. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of La Gare in the west. Large areas of the commune are forested, especially in the west, and there is a large fish farm in the east. The rest of the commune is farmland.^[2]

The Aisne river forms part of the south-eastern border of the commune as it flows north then west to the village then north again as it continues its journey to join the Oise at Compiègne. The Dormoise flows from the south-west to join the Aisne in the commune. The Remy Galere rises on the northern border and flows east to join the Aisne forming part of the northern border.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Heraldry

Blazon: Bendy of Or and Gules.

Administration

The Town Hall

A Wayside Cross in Autry

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2014	Jean-Pierre Boure
2014	2020	Pascal Boxebeld

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 140 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 communes that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
562	658	631	666	651	678	672	679	657

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
-	-	578	552	522	547	529	477	456

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
449	454	483	371	315	257	251	254	267

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
233	187	156	141	133	127	143	140	-

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

Culture and heritage

The church at Autry

Civil heritage

The commune has one structure that is registered as an historical monument:

• A Flour Mill (20th century)^[4]

Another site of interest

• Around the church in the village there are traces of a medieval fortification system.^[5]

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  Inside the Lavoir

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  Inside the Lavoir

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  The village and the church

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  A Shrine

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  Chapel of Mary

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  The Chapel of Saint Lambert

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  The War Memorial

Notable people linked to the commune

• Louis Marie Alphonse Depuiset (1822-1886), Entomologist.

See also

• Communes of the Ardennes department

External links

• Autry on the old IGN website (French)
• Autry on Lion1906
• Autry on Google Maps
• Autry on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Autry on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Autry 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. Inhabitants of (French)
2. Google Maps
3. List of Mayors of France (French)
4. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA08000319 Flour Mill (French)
5. The discovery of medieval sites in North Argonne, published by Daniel Hochedez in the Horizons d'Argonne review, No. 88, June 2011, p. 9-10 (French)