Avignonet

Avignonet
Monteynard Lake on the border with Monteynard
Avignonet
Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region  Avignonet
Coordinates: 44°57′35″N 5°39′28″E / 44.9597°N 5.6578°ECoordinates: 44°57′35″N 5°39′28″E / 44.9597°N 5.6578°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère
Arrondissement	Grenoble
Canton	Monestier-de-Clermont
Intercommunality	Canton de Monestier de Clermont
Government
• Mayor (2007–2020)	Jérôme Fauconnier
Area^1	8 km^2 (3 sq mi)
Population (2010)^2	214
• Density	27/km^2 (69/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	38023 / 38650
Elevation	362–825 m (1,188–2,707 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.

Avignonet is a French commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Avignonetins or Avignonetines.^[1]

Geography

Avignonet is located some 25 km south of Grenoble and 8 km north of Monestier-de-Clermont. Access to the commune is by the A51 autoroute (E712) which passes south through the western arm of the commune and has Exit  13  Sinard on the commune border. Access to the village is by road D110A from Saint-Martin-de-la-Cluze in the north which comes down the western border of the commune to the village. The D110C goes east from Sinard to the dam through the south of the commune. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Le Cros and Le Mas in the south-east. There are large forests in the east of the commune with the rest of the commune farmland.^[2]

The eastern border of the commune is entirely formed by the Drac river and the large artificial Monteynard lake formed by the dam on the Drac river. Several streams rise in the commune and flow east to the lake including the Ruisseau d'Aiguettas, the Ruisseau de Mitraire, the Ruisseau de la Proche, and the Ruisseau des Vaux which forms part of the northern border.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2007	Camille Chatelard
2007	2020	Jérôme Fauconnier

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 214 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
281	279	291	280	262	285	306	259	262

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
247	271	266	280	270	233	230	219	209

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
376	209	203	136	132	143	129	110	112

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
951	102	87	132	146	189	218	214	-

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

Footbridge over the Drac

Culture and heritage

The Dam across the Drac

Civil heritage

• The Lac de Monteynard-Avignonet with its Dam and Hydro-electricity plant.
• Ruins of the Chateau d'Ars
• The Chateau des marceaux from the 17th century

Former Chateaux

• Chateau La Cluse
• Chateau des seigneurs du Gua

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  View from the lake

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  Escarpment on the lake

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  View of the lake

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  The view east from the lake

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See also

• Communes of the Isère department

External links

• Photos of Avignonet (French)
• Bell Towers website (French)
• Avignonet on Lion1906
• Avignonet on Google Maps
• Avignonet on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Avignonet on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Avignonet 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 Isère (French)
2. Google Maps
3. List of Mayors of France (French)