Bègles

Bègles (French: [bɛɡl]; Gascon: Begla) is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.

Bègles
Commune
Château de Francs
Coat of arms
Location of Bègles
Bègles Bègles
Coordinates: 44°48′31″N 0°32′52″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Bordeaux
Canton	Talence and Villenave-d'Ornon
Intercommunality	Bordeaux Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Clement Rossignol-Puech[1]
Area ^1	9.96 km^2 (3.85 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[2]	28,601
• Density	2,900/km^2 (7,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	33039 /33130
Elevation	3–18 m (9.8–59.1 ft) (avg. 8 m or 26 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

It is a suburb of the city of Bordeaux and is adjacent to it on the south.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 2,115 —     1800 1,526 −27.8% 1806 1,903 +24.7% 1821 2,050 +7.7% 1831 2,322 +13.3% 1836 2,518 +8.4% 1841 2,592 +2.9% 1846 2,745 +5.9% 1851 2,844 +3.6% 1856 3,286 +15.5% 1861 4,005 +21.9% 1866 4,764 +19.0% 1872 5,547 +16.4% 1876 6,202 +11.8% 1881 7,238 +16.7% 1886 8,919 +23.2% 1891 10,535 +18.1%

Year Pop. ±% 1896 10,372 −1.5% 1901 12,104 +16.7% 1906 12,588 +4.0% 1911 14,055 +11.7% 1921 16,590 +18.0% 1926 18,349 +10.6% 1931 21,582 +17.6% 1936 20,989 −2.7% 1946 22,590 +7.6% 1954 23,176 +2.6% 1962 24,388 +5.2% 1968 27,330 +12.1% 1975 25,680 −6.0% 1982 23,318 −9.2% 1990 22,604 −3.1% 1999 22,475 −0.6% 2008 24,999 +11.2%

Personalities

Bègles was the birthplace of:

• Sandrine Cantoreggi (born 1969), violinist
• Lilly Daché (1898–1989), milliner and fashion designer
• Jacques Dufilho (1914–2005), actor
• Actress Marie Belle, born 1900.

International relations

Bègles is twinned with:

• Collado Villalba, Spain
• Suhl, Germany
• Bray, Ireland[3]

See also

• Communes of the Gironde department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
3. "Twinned with Dublin". bray.ie. 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2017.

External links

• Official website (in French)