Boulaur

Boulaur is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

Boulaur
Commune
Abbey
Location of Boulaur
Boulaur Boulaur
Coordinates: 43°32′30″N 0°46′29″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Gers
Arrondissement	Auch
Canton	Astarac-Gimone
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Paul Ruetsch
Area ^1	9.03 km^2 (3.49 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	179
• Density	20/km^2 (51/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	32061 /32450
Elevation	162–285 m (531–935 ft) (avg. 155 m or 509 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Boulaur and its surrounding communes

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 346 —     1800 228 −34.1% 1806 374 +64.0% 1821 438 +17.1% 1831 449 +2.5% 1841 438 −2.4% 1846 433 −1.1% 1851 412 −4.8% 1856 443 +7.5% 1861 431 −2.7% 1866 473 +9.7% 1872 422 −10.8% 1876 431 +2.1% 1886 379 −12.1% 1881 408 +7.7% 1891 395 −3.2% 1896 345 −12.7%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 330 −4.3% 1906 296 −10.3% 1911 299 +1.0% 1921 247 −17.4% 1926 227 −8.1% 1931 208 −8.4% 1936 197 −5.3% 1946 219 +11.2% 1954 203 −7.3% 1962 133 −34.5% 1968 163 +22.6% 1975 154 −5.5% 1982 140 −9.1% 1990 126 −10.0% 1999 128 +1.6% 2008 151 +18.0%

Abbey

St Mary's Abbey of Boulaur, a former priory of the Order of Fontevraud, is a monastery of Cistercian nuns. It was founded in the 12th century and was originally a Fontevrist monastery that was abolished during the French Revolution. Cistercian nuns reinstated it at the end of the 19th century, and were expelled]] under the Associations Act of 1901. Monastic life was definitively restored in 1949. In 2011 the community had about thirty nuns.

See also

• Communes of the Gers department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

Further reading

• Histoire de l'ordre de Fontevrault, 1100-1908; by the Religious of Sainte-Marie-de-Fontevrault-de-Boulaur (afterwards at Vera in Navarre). 3 vols. Auch, 1911–15