La Bastide-de-Bousignac

La Bastide-de-Bousignac
The bell tower in La Bastide-de-Bousignac
La Bastide-de-Bousignac
Location within Occitanie region  La Bastide-de-Bousignac
Coordinates: 43°03′17″N 1°53′10″E / 43.0547°N 1.8861°ECoordinates: 43°03′17″N 1°53′10″E / 43.0547°N 1.8861°E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Ariège
Arrondissement	Pamiers
Canton	Mirepoix
Intercommunality	Pays de Mirepoix
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Grégory Balard
Area^1	12.53 km^2 (4.84 sq mi)
Population (2010)^2	339
• Density	27/km^2 (70/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	09039 / 09500
Elevation	310–500 m (1,020–1,640 ft) (avg. 326 m or 1,070 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-de-Bousignac is a French commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.^[1]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bousignacois or Bousignacoises.^[2]

Geography

La Bastide-de-Bousignac is located just 3 km south of Mirepoix and 2 km north of Saint-Quentin-la-Tour. Access to the commune is by the D625 road from Mirepoix which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues south to Saint-Quentin-la-Tour. The D7 goes east from the village to Lagarde. The D7A goes south-west from the village to Saint-Julien-de-Gras-Capou. The D78 comes from Saint-Julien-de-Gras-Capou in the south and passes north through the western arm of the commune continuing to join the D13 south of Besset. The commune is mixed farmland and forest.^[3][4]

The Countirou river flows from the south through the centre of the commune and the village and continues north to join the Hers at Mirepoix. The Ruisseau de Gradal rises in the east of the commune and flows west to join the Countirou north of the village. The Ruisseau de Mazeroles flows through the western arm of the commune from south to north continuing north to join the Hers at Besset.^[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

^[3]

History

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

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[7]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1790	1792	Jean Lanta
1792	1794	Jean Boudouresque
1794	1798	Jean Pilles
1798	1815	Joseph Boudouresque
1815	1824	Baptiste Fidency
1824	1830	Maurice Boudouresque
1830	1847	François Authie
1847	1865	François Boudouresque
1865	1870	Jean Baptiste Authie
1870	1871	François Boudouresque
1871	1877	Jean Baptiste Authie
1877	1909	Maurice Boudouresque
1909	1920	Noël Authie
1920	1929	Jules Senié
1929	1947	Joseph Henri Elie Cassagne
1947	2014	Roger Senié
2014	2020	Grégory Balard

(Not all data is known)

In February 2013 Roger Senie announces he would not stand in 2014.^[8][9] In July 2013 he was reelected mayor after resigning in protest against the forced inclusion of La Bastide-de-Bousignac into the community of communes of the Pays de Mirepoix. Serving from 1947 to 2014, he was the oldest mayor in France equally with Arthur Richier, the mayor of Faucon-du-Caire in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.^[10] who, like him, did not stand in March 2014.^[11]

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 339 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
454	378	457	460	504	505	489	516	507

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
477	484	458	449	439	443	427	403	390

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
355	343	323	272	280	290	272	267	284

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
276	251	248	296	311	327		339	-

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

Culture and heritage

The Church Bell

Religious heritage

• The Church Bell (Middle Ages) is registered as an historical monument.^[12]

Notable people linked to the commune

• Pierre Espert de Sibra (1771-1835), General of the armies of the Republic and the Empire, died in the hamlet of Balach.
• Roger Sénié (born in 1921), Mayor of the commune from 1947 to 2014

See also

• Communes of the Ariège 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-de-Bousignac on Lion1906
2. Inhabitants of Ariège (French)
3. La Bastide-de-Bousignac on Google Maps
4. La Bastide-de-Bousignac on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
5. la Baftide de Bouzujnac on the 1750 Cassini Map
6. la Baftide on the 1790 Cassini Map
7. List of Mayors of France (French)
8. La Bastide de Bousignac: the "oldest mayor in France" abandons the political battle (French)
9. La Bastide-de-Bousignac. Roger Sénié, 93 years, renounces his post as mayor, La Dépêche du Midi, 11 February 2014. Consulted on 14 February 2014. (French)
10. Mayor since 1947, he was elected again (French)
11. A. N., The last wishes of the oldest Mayor in France, La Provence, 4 February 2014, p. 9. (French)
12. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00093773 Church Bell (French)