Canet-en-Roussillon

Canet-en-Roussillon
The sea front and the beach at Canet-en-Roussillon
Coat of arms
Canet-en-Roussillon
Location within Occitanie region  Canet-en-Roussillon
Coordinates: 42°42′24″N 3°00′28″E / 42.7067°N 3.0078°ECoordinates: 42°42′24″N 3°00′28″E / 42.7067°N 3.0078°E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Perpignan
Canton	Canet-en-Roussillon
Intercommunality	Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Bernard Dupont
Area^1	30.22 km^2 (11.67 sq mi)
Population (2013)^2	12,436
• Density	410/km^2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	66037 / 66140
Elevation	0–37 m (0–121 ft) (avg. 6 m or 20 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.

Canet-en-Roussillon (Catalan: Canet de Rosselló) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Localisation

Canet-en-Roussillon is located in the canton of Canet-en-Roussillon and in the arrondissement of Perpignan,9.4 km (5.8 mi) to the east of Perpignan.

Map of Canet-en-Roussillon and its surrounding communes

Neighbouring communes

History

The city walls are destroyed in the 19th century.

With the development of sea bathing, the first beach settlement for bathers of the coast of Pyrénées-Orientales is created by Louise Lombard in 1849.^[1] As soon as 1854 are established municipal laws to rule types of bathing suits and separated zones of sea bathing for men and women.^[2]

Government and politics

Mayors

Signature of mayor Basile Darbon in 1910.

The town hall.

Mayor[3]	Term start	Term end		Party
Joseph Cassanyes	1790	1792
Jacques Bonet	1792	1795
Jacques Cassanyes	1796	1797
Julien Canal	1798	1798
Jacques Cassanyes	1799	1800
Jacques Bonet	1800	1813
Joseph Cassanyes	February 1813	28 October 1814
Saturnin Cargoles	1814	1826
Antoine Gaux	1826	1831
Joseph Cassanyes Jr.	1831	1848
Julien Canal Jr.	March 1848	June 1848		Temporary Mayor
Pierre Roger	June 1848	September 1848		Temporary Mayor
Joseph Cassanyes	September 1848	August 1851
Julien Canal	August 1851	December 1851		Temporary Mayor
Julien Canal	1851	1865
Jean Bartissol	1865	September 1870
Michel Pages	September 1870	December 1870
Joseph Berga	1870	1874
Côme Roger	1874	1881
Jean Lafon	1881	1890
Jacques Xamma	1891	1892
Henri Castany	1892	1904
Basile Darbon	1904	May 1912
Isidore Boutet[4]	May 1912	1918
François Alies[5]	1918	1919
Joseph Lafon	1920	1925
Jacques Xamma	1925	1930
Joseph Lafon	1929	1930
Gabriel Henric	1930	1941
Désiré Riu	1941	1943
Pierre Fourcade	1943	1944
Gabriel Henric	1944	1947
Joseph Pagès	1947	1950
François Moudat	1950	1965
Christian Brignieu	1965	1966
François Moudat	1966	1971
Jacques Coupet	1971	1989
Arlette Franco	1989	2010		UMP
Bernard Dupont	2010			UMP

International relations

Canet-en-Roussillon is twinned with:

• Maynooth, Ireland

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% 1793 225 —     1800 281 +24.9% 1806 233 −17.1% 1821 365 +56.7% 1831 384 +5.2% 1836 388 +1.0% 1841 405 +4.4% 1846 466 +15.1% 1851 509 +9.2% 1856 498 −2.2%	Year Pop. ±% 1861 524 +5.2% 1866 612 +16.8% 1872 662 +8.2% 1876 754 +13.9% 1881 806 +6.9% 1886 887 +10.0% 1891 914 +3.0% 1896 1,012 +10.7% 1901 1,026 +1.4% 1906 1,102 +7.4%	Year Pop. ±% 1911 1,215 +10.3% 1921 1,226 +0.9% 1926 1,230 +0.3% 1931 1,199 −2.5% 1936 1,238 +3.3% 1946 1,213 −2.0% 1954 1,853 +52.8% 1962 2,646 +42.8% 1968 3,658 +38.2% 1975 5,127 +40.2%	Year Pop. ±% 1982 7,219 +40.8% 1990 7,575 +4.9% 1999 10,182 +34.4% 2006 11,702 +14.9% 2008 12,372 +5.7% 2011 13,091 +5.8% 2013 12,436 −5.0%

Sites of interest

• The medieval castle ;
• The Saint-James church ;
• The Château de l'Esparrou, a 19th c. manor ;
• The old village ;
• The sea front.

Notable people

• Arlette Franco (1939-2010), mayor of Canet-en-Roussillon, deputy to the National Assembly of France and vice-president of the French Swimming Federation.
• Marc Fontan (1956-), motorcycle road racer born in Canet-en-Roussillon.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department

References

• INSEE commune file

1. Birkui, Françoise (2013). Le Matrimoine catalan : 66 femmes [Catalan matrimony : 66 women] (in French). Canet-en-Roussillon: Trabucaïre. ISBN 978-2-84974-166-5.
2. Cárdenas, Fabricio (2014). 66 petites histoires du Pays Catalan [66 Little Stories of Catalan Country] (in French). Perpignan: Ultima Necat. ISBN 978-2-36771-006-8. OCLC 893847466.
3. MairesGenWeb
4. Cardenas, Fabricio (29 August 2014). "Nomination du maire en 1912". Archives de Canet. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
5. Cardenas, Fabricio (24 March 2015). "Nomination de l'adjoint au maire en 1912". Archives de Canet. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

External links

• Media related to Canet-en-Roussillon at Wikimedia Commons