La Bastide-Pradines

La Bastide-Pradines
A general view of La Bastide-Pradines
La Bastide-Pradines
Location within Occitanie region  La Bastide-Pradines
Coordinates: 44°00′09″N 3°02′50″E / 44.0025°N 3.0472°ECoordinates: 44°00′09″N 3°02′50″E / 44.0025°N 3.0472°E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Aveyron
Arrondissement	Millau
Canton	Saint-Affrique
Intercommunality	Larzac-Templier Causses et Vallées
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Agnès Comby
Area^1	20.56 km^2 (7.94 sq mi)
Population (2010)^2	111
• Density	5.4/km^2 (14/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	12022 / 12490
Elevation	460–862 m (1,509–2,828 ft) (avg. 574 m or 1,883 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.

La Bastide-Pradines is a French commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of southern France.^[1]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bastidois or Bastidoises.^[2]

Geography

La Bastide-Pradines is located some 50 km south-east of Rodez and 10 km north-east of Saint-Affrique in the heart of the Parc naturel régional des Grands Causses. Access to the commune is by the A75 autoroute which passes through the north of the commune from north-west to east with Exit  46  in the commune and connecting to the D999. The D999 comes from Saint-Rome-de-Cernon in the west and passes through the centre of the commune north of the village and continues east to Exit  47  on the autoroute and to La Cavalerie. The D77 branches from Saint-Rome-de-Cernon by a southern route through the commune and the village and continues east to Lapanouse-de-Cernon. The D560 connects the village to the D999 to the north in the commune. A disused railway line passes through the commune from west to east south of the village. The commune is heavily forested in the south with the rest mainly farmland.^[3][4]

The Cernon river flows through the commune and the village from east to west and continues west then north joining the Tarn east of Comprégnac. The Ruisseau de Coufours rises in the north of the commune and flows south to join the Cernon near the village. The Ruisseau de Saute-Bouc rises in the north-east of the commune and flows south-west to join the Ruisseau de Coufours just north of the village. The Ruisseau des Clarous rises in the south of the commune and flows north to join the Cernon.^[3][4]

Mapping

A list of online mapping systems can be displayed by clicking on the coordinates (latitude and longitude) in the top right hand corner of this article.

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Toponymy

La Bastide-Pradines appears as la Baftide de Pradines on the 1750 Cassini Map^[5] and as la Bastide de Pradines on the 1790 version.^[6]

History

Formerly called La Bastide de Sernonenque, La Bastide-Pradines was once a Commandry of the Knights Hospitaller.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[7]

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1925 

From	To	Name
1793	1795	Antoine Bosc
1795	1800	Joseph Calvet
1801	1815	Jean Pierre Vernhes
1816	1858	Louis Marie Antoine Gasc de la Gineste
1859	1865	Auguste Soutou
1865	1871	Gédéon Joseph Paul Caylet
1871	1876	Pierre Gazel
1876	1886	Benjamin Sigaud
1886	1888	Etienne Lacoste
1888	1896	Gualy de la Gineste
1896	1900	Auguste Malzac
1900	1908	Auguste Malzac
1908	1925	Jules Soutou

Mayors from 1925

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1925	1956	Emile de Gualy
1956	1977	Gabriel Malric
1977	1983	Augustin Mailhe
1983	1995	Alain Arnal
2001	2008	Emilien Boutonnet
2008	2014	Agnès Comby
2014	2020	Yves Malric

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 111 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
347	417	-	-	-	-	467	486	463

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
466	455	435	480	446	463	929	543	385

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
345	332	333	253	258	257	235	189	163

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
143	143	118	97	102	98	106	111	-

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

Sites and Monuments

• The Granieyras, a fortified granary dating from the 14th century, at the time of the Knights Hospitaller.
• Houses from the 12th century.
• A Two-arch Bridge 17.60 m long, one arch forming a slight donkeyback and the other semicircular.

Notable people linked to the commune

• Emma Calvé, singer, has stayed at La Bastide-Pradines with her aunt.

Bibliography

• Christian-Pierre Bedel, preface by Jean-Luc Malet, Sent-Africa, La Bastida, Caumèls-e-Lo Vialar, Ròcafòrt, Sant-Faliç, Sent-Esèri, Sent-Jan, D'Aucàpias, Sent-Roma de Sarnon, Tornamira, Vabre, Verzòls-e-La Pèira / Christian-Pierre Bedel e los estatjants del canton de Sent-Africa, Rodez, Mission départementale de la culture, 2002, Al canton collection, 429 pages, ill., cov. ill. 28 cm, ISBN 2-907279-54-8, ISSN 1151-8375, BnF 38977452h (Occitan)

See also

• Communes of the Aveyron department

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 and 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. La Bastide-Pradines on Lion1906
2. Inhabitants of Aveyron (French)
3. La Bastide-Pradines on Google Maps
4. La Bastide-Pradines on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
5. la Baftide de Pradines on the 1750 Cassini Map
6. la Bastide de Pradines on the 1790 Cassini Map
7. List of Mayors of France (French)