Les Alleux

Les Alleux
The entrance to the village
Coat of arms
Les Alleux
Location within Grand Est region  Les Alleux
Coordinates: 49°28′17″N 4°44′20″E / 49.4714°N 4.7389°ECoordinates: 49°28′17″N 4°44′20″E / 49.4714°N 4.7389°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Ardennes
Arrondissement	Vouziers
Canton	Chesne
Intercommunality	Argonne Ardennaise
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Guillaume Queval
Area^1	12.04 km^2 (4.65 sq mi)
Population (2009)^2	84
• Density	7.0/km^2 (18/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	08007 / 08400
Elevation	133–209 m (436–686 ft) (avg. 207 m or 679 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.

Les Alleux is a former commune in the Ardennes department in northern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Bairon-et-ses-Environs.^[1]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alleusiens or Alleusiennes, or alternatively Alleutiers or Alleutières.^[2]

Geography

Les Alleux is some 30 km east of Rethel and 10 km north of Vouziers. The commune can be accessed by the D977 road from Vouziers in the south passing through the commune to the east of the village and continuing to Le Chesne in the north. Access to the village is by the D23 road from Voncq in the west and continuing north to join the D977 inside the commune. Most of the east and west of the commune are forested with the central part farmland.^[3]

An unnamed stream rises south of the village and flows north-west to join the Ruisseau des Graquinettes just west of the commune.^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[3]

Heraldry

Blazon: Gules, a chevron of Or accompanied in chief by two arrows of Argent in pale and in base by a crescent the same; in chief overall Azure charged with three mullets of Or.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2001	Francis Ledig
2001	2014	Joël Gobert
2014	2020	Guillaume Queval

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 84 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through 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 towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
231	315	317	335	408	437	442	433	425

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
-	-	407	460	427	425	417	361	387

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
376	334	288	231	201	214	160	170	167

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
166	125	102	69	72	63	-	84	-

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

French Decorations

• Croix de Guerre 1914-1918: 9 March 1921

Sites and Monuments

• 
  The War Memorial
• 
  The crossroads of the D977 and the D23
• 
  A house in Les Alleux
• 
  The Town Hall
• 
  The Church of Alleux
• 
  The entrance to the church
• 
  Memorial to June 1940
• 
  Memorial to the counter-offensive of 9–10 June 1940
• 
  Tomb of the Rivals de la Salle family, owners of the Chateau of Maison-Rouge in 1853
• 
  Tomb of the Rivals de la Salle family detail
• 
  The road to Vouziers
• 
  The bus shleter for the Abribus

Notable people linked to the commune

• Tristan de Villelongue (1562-1631) was a doctor of theology, councillor of state and a preacher for Henry IV

See also

• Communes of the Ardennes department
• Cantons of the Ardennes department
• Arrondissements of the Ardennes department

External links

• Les Alleux on the old National Geographic Institute website (French)
• Les Alleux on Lion1906
• Les Alleux on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Les Alleux on the INSEE website (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" which allow, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For municipalities with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these municipalities 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. Arrêté préfectoral 30 November 2015 (French)
2. Inhabitants of Ardennes (French)
3. Google Maps
4. List of Mayors of France