Arvieu

Arvieu (Occitan: Arviu) is a commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of southern France.

Arvieu
Commune
The Lake of Pareloup
Location of Arvieu
Arvieu
Arvieu
Coordinates: 44°11′29″N 2°39′43″E
CountryFrance
RegionOccitanie
DepartmentAveyron
ArrondissementMillau
CantonMonts du Réquistanais
IntercommunalityLévézou Pareloup
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Gilles Bounhol
Area
1
46.91 km2 (18.11 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
783
 • Density17/km2 (43/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
12011 /12120
Elevation606–929 m (1,988–3,048 ft)
(avg. 730 m or 2,400 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arvieunois or Arvieunoises.[2]

Geography

Arvieu is located some 23 km south by south-east of Rodez and 7 km north of Alrance. Access to the commune is by the D56 road from Pont-de-Salars in the north-east passing through the commune and the village and continuing south to Durenque. The D82 branches off the D56 north of the village and goes north to Flavin. The D577 branches off the D56 in the south of the commune and goes west to Salmiech. The commune is entirely farmland except for some small patches of forest.[3]

The eastern border of the commune is the Lac de Pareloup. The Céor river rises in the east of the commune and flows west through the village then south forming part of the western border before continuing west to join the Viaur at Saint-Just-sur-Viaur. The Ruisseau de Glauzeilles rises in the north of the commune flowing west then south-west, forming the north-eastern border of the commune, to join the Céor. The Ruisseau de Calieres rises in the east of the commune and flows north to join the Vioulou just north of the commune.[3]

Places and hamlets
  • Les Auglanes
  • Aurifeuille
  • Beauregard
  • Bel-Air
  • Bellevue
  • Le Besset
  • Bois de Nouet
  • Bois Grand
  • Bonneviale
  • Le Bose
  • La Brauge
  • La Calmette
  • Caplongue
  • Cayras
  • Cayras Bas
  • Les Cazals
  • Clauzelles
  • Clauzellou
  • Les Combes
  • Le Coutal
  • La Croix de l'Ouradou
  • Dournets
  • Dours
  • Espinous
  • Espinouset
  • Fau du Dours
  • Les Faux
  • Font Bonne
  • Fouleties
  • Galinieres
  • Gilergues
  • Ginestous
  • Girman Bas
  • Girman Haut
  • La Graille
  • Grelac
  • Lalic
  • La Lumiere
  • Mas Roux
  • Le Mas Roussel
  • Le Mas Vayssettes
  • Montginoux
  • Montredon
  • Le Mouli
  • Le Moulin d'Aigles
  • Le Moulin de la Gineste
  • N.-D d'Aures
  • Pareloup
  • Le Pouget
  • La Pendarie
  • Pierrefiche
  • Pauhle Rouby
  • La Pendarie
  • La Plane
  • Le Puech
  • Puech d'Anglas
  • Puech Cabane
  • Le Puech de Clauzelles
  • Puech d'Espinous
  • Puech de Girman
  • Le Puech Granier
  • Puech de Grima
  • Puech Grimal
  • Le Rhan
  • Les Rials
  • Rochers du Diable
  • le Roucan
  • Rougeviale
  • Routaboul
  • Le Rueillou
  • Saint-Martin des Faux (partly in Arvieu and partly in Salles-Curan)
  • Serieux
  • Les Sottes
  • Tredos
  • Ventajou

[4]

Neighbouring communes and villages

[3]

History
  • There are traces of the Gallo-Romans
  • In the 16th century the village was besieged
  • In the 18th century the Vigouroux family of Rodez bought the Lordship
  • The Arvieu Affair: The village was attacked by a band of counter-revolutionaries from the former Army of Charrié who hid in the Palanges Forest. The house of Citizen Bonnefous, the leading citizen of the commune, was pillaged. Many people were accused of supporting the attackers who were from the de Barrau family of Carcenac-Salmiech.[5]
  • The ramparts were destroyed in the 19th century.

Heraldry
[[Image:|120px|center|Arms of Arvieu]] Blazon:

Party per bend sinister, at 1 Azure with a Cross of Malta of Or; at 2 Gules, a lion Argent.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors[6]

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1941
FromToNamePartyPosition
17891793Pierre Lacombe
17931796Jean Blancpauly
17961797Joseph Dufieu
17971799Amans Gaubert
17991801François Robert
18011816Léonard Bonnefous
18161821Pierre Long
18211826Léonard Bonnefous
18261830Pierre Long
18301843Régis Dufieu
18431848Léonard Bonnefous
18481851Hippolyte Bonnefous
18511854Gervais Rigal
18541865Jean Cayron
18651879Hippolyte Bonnefous
18791892Antoine Capron
18921901Hippolyte Bonnefous
19011904Pierre Salbat
19041913Hippolyte Bonnefous
19131929Victor Espinasse
19291935Hervé Canac
19351941Justin Fabie
Mayors from 1941
FromToNamePartyPosition
19411945Victor Boudes
19451950Justin Mai
19501965Ernest Thubieres
19651983Raymond Almes
19831995Léonce Terral
19952008Raymond Vaysettes
20082014Claudine Bru
2014CurrentGilles Bounhol

(Not all data is known)

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±%
2006865—    
2007863−0.2%
2008861−0.2%
2009861+0.0%
2010865+0.5%
2011842−2.7%
2012820−2.6%
2013797−2.8%
2014787−1.3%
2015787+0.0%
2016785−0.3%

Culture and heritage
Chapel of Notre-Dame d'Aures

Civil heritage
  • A Feudal Château Sainte-Famille (a former convent).
  • The Château of Saint-Louis (now the Town Hall).
  • The Château of Montfranc (Arvieu, private property).
  • A Pond, Mill, and Lavoir (Public laundry) at Arvieu.

Religious heritage
The Statue of Saint Foy
  • The Church of Notre-Dame d'Aures (12th centuries) is registered as an historical monument.[7] The church contains a Statue of Saint Foy (15th century) which is registered as an historical object.[8]
  • The Parish Church of Saint-Amans at Arvieu had a Painting: The Assumption of the Virgin (disappeared) (1850) which is registered as an historical object.[9]
  • The Church of Saint-Saturnin or Saint-Sernin at Caplongue.
  • The Church of Saint-Martin at Faux.
  • The Chapel of Saint-André at Clauzelles.

Notable people linked to the commune
  • Jean Dupin, (1936-), former senior Post Office official, wrote seven novels set in Lévézou, originally from Arvieu village.
  • Joël Serin, former secretary in the Town Hall.
  • Henri Grimal, born in Arvieu in 1910, academic and historian.

See also

Bibliography
  • Christian-Pierre Bedel, preface by Bernard Destours, Cassanhas: Arviu, Auriac, Caumont, La Grand'Vila, Saumièg, Senta-Jaleda or Christian-Pierre Bedel e los estatjants del canton de Cassanhas, Rodez, Mission départementale de la culture, 1996, Al canton collection, 240 pages, ill., couv. ill., 28 cm, ISBN 2-907279-30-0, ISSN 1151-8375, BnF 366930046 (in French)/(Occitan)

Notes and references

Notes

    References
    1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
    2. Inhabitants of Aveyron (in French)
    3. Google Maps
    4. Géoportail, IGN, consulted on 4 May 2014 (in French)
    5. Henri Grimal, The Affair of Arvieu (October 1793), Revue du Rouergue, No. 87, New series, Autumn 2006, pp. 349 to 382. (in French)
    6. List of Mayors of France (in French)
    7. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA12000030 Church of Notre-Dame d'Aures (in French)
    8. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM12000002 Statue: Saint Foy (in French)
    9. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM12000212 Painting: Assumption of the Virgin (in French)
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