Barneville-la-Bertran

Barneville-la-Bertran is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.[2]

Barneville-la-Bertran
Commune
The centre of Barneville-la-Bertran
Location of Barneville-la-Bertran
Barneville-la-Bertran
Barneville-la-Bertran
Coordinates: 49°23′21″N 0°11′19″E
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentCalvados
ArrondissementLisieux
CantonHonfleur-Deauville
IntercommunalityPays de Honfleur
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Jean-François Bernard
Area
1
4.18 km2 (1.61 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
127
 • Density30/km2 (79/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
14041 /14600
Elevation15–127 m (49–417 ft)
(avg. 40 m or 130 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 Barnevillais or Barnevillaises.[3]

Geography

Barneville-la-Bertran is located north of the Pays d'Auge some 6 km south-west of Honfleur, 15 km south by south-east of Le Havre (across the Seine Estuary) and 10 km north-east of Deauville. Access to the commune is by the D62 from Pennedepie in the north which passes through the north of the commune and continues east to Équemauville. The D279 branches from the D288 south of the commune - just east of Deauville – Normandie Airport - and passes north through the village and joins the D62 just east of the commune. The commune is mostly farmland.[4][5]

Toponymy

Barneville was called Barnavilla in 1062: from the Scandinavian antroponym Biarn[6] or Barni[7] and the Latin villa giving the meaning "rural domain". Bertran is the family name of the lords of the area in the Middle Ages.[8]

On 6 November 1995 the commune of Barneville officially changed its name to Barneville-la-Bertran.[9]

History

Barneville-la-Bertran appears as Barneville-la-Bertrand on the 1750 Cassini Map[10] and as Barneville on the 1790 version.[11]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors[12]

FromToNamePartyPosition
17901792Léonard Joseph Chauffer de Barneville
17921795François Trembley
18001811Pierre Charles Coulon
18111830Alexandre Naguet de Saint-Georges
18301840Jean Charles Casimir Langin
18401846Jean Pierre Canterel
18461848Jean Jacques Lebey
18481849Elie Paumier
18491855Jean Jacques Lebey
18501883Amand Constant Rufin
19952001Jean Pierre Aubert
20012026[13]Jean-François Bernard

(Not all data is known)

The municipal council is made up of 11 members including the Mayor and two deputies.[14]

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 127 inhabitants.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 236—    
1800 355+6.01%
1806 432+3.33%
1821 301−2.38%
1831 303+0.07%
1836 317+0.91%
1841 319+0.13%
1846 279−2.64%
1851 276−0.22%
1856 255−1.57%
1861 235−1.62%
1866 259+1.96%
1872 242−1.13%
1876 230−1.26%
1881 194−3.35%
1886 227+3.19%
1891 242+1.29%
1896 241−0.08%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 223−1.54%
1906 216−0.64%
1911 203−1.23%
1921 194−0.45%
1926 197+0.31%
1931 201+0.40%
1936 187−1.43%
1946 156−1.80%
1954 174+1.37%
1962 128−3.77%
1968 150+2.68%
1975 131−1.92%
1982 125−0.67%
1990 124−0.10%
1999 138+1.20%
2007 143+0.45%
2012 134−1.29%
2017 127−1.07%
Source: EHESS[15] and INSEE[16]

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has two buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:

  • The Manoir des Vallées (12th century)[17]
  • The Chateau of Barneville Park (1873)[18]

Religious heritage
  • The Church of Saint John the Baptist is flanked by a quadrangular tower and is registered as an historical monument.[19]

Notable people linked to the commune
  • Jean Doublet (1655 - 1728 at Barneville), pirate.
  • Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1651 at Barneville - 1705), French writer of fairy tales.
  • Françoise Sagan (1935-2004), writer, lived in the Breuil Manor before Lucien and Sacha Guitry. Died in hospital at Équemauville on 24 September 2004. Her body remained in her manor before being buried in Lot where she was born.

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Barneville-la-Bertran on Lion1906
  3. Inhabitants of Calvados (in French)
  4. Barneville-la-Bertran on Google Maps
  5. Barneville-la-Bertran on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
  6. Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963 (in French)
  7. René Lepelley, Etymological Dictionary of commune names in Normandy, Éditions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau, 1996 bnf 36174448w, p. 59 (in French)
  8. Community of communes of Pays de Honfleur - Barneville-la-Bertran Archived June 11, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, consulted on 20 April 2012 (in French)
  9. Decree of 6 November 1995 (in French)
  10. Barneville-la-Bertrand on the 1750 Cassini Map
  11. Barneville on the 1790 Cassini Map
  12. List of Mayors of France (in French)
  13. Reelection 2014: Barneville-la-Bertran (14600) - Municipales 2014, Ouest-France, consulted on 16 June 2014 (in French)
  14. art L. 2121-2 of the General Code of Collective Territories (in French).
  15. Données Cassini, EHESS
  16. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  17. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA14000015 Manoir des Vallées (in French)
  18. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA14003343 Chateau of Barneville Park (in French)
  19. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026704 Church of Saint John the Baptist (in French)
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