Arvieu

Arvieu
Commune
The Lake of Pareloup
Arvieu Location within Occitanie region Arvieu
Coordinates: 44°11′29″N 2°39′43″E / 44.1914°N 2.6619°E / 44.1914; 2.6619Coordinates: 44°11′29″N 2°39′43″E / 44.1914°N 2.6619°E / 44.1914; 2.6619
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Aveyron
Arrondissement	Millau
Canton	Monts du Réquistanais
Intercommunality	CC Lévézou Pareloup
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Gilles Bounhol
Area1	46.91 km2 (18.11 sq mi)
Population (2015)2	787
• Density	17/km2 (43/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	12011 /12120
Elevation	606–929 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. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

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

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arvieunois or Arvieunoises.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[2]

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.^[4]
• The ramparts were destroyed in the 19th century.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[5]

Mayors from 1941

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 865 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from 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]}

Culture and heritage

Chapel of Notre-Dame d'Aures

Religious heritage

The Statue of Saint Foy

• The Church of Notre-Dame d'Aures (12th centuries) is registered as an historical monument.^[6] The church contains a Statue of Saint Foy (15th century) which is registered as an historical object.^[7]
• 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.^[8]
• 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

• Communes of the Aveyron department

Notes and references

References

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

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