Avançon, Ardennes

Avançon is a French commune in the Ardennes département in the Grand Est region of northern France.

Avançon
Commune
View of the Church, cemetery, and town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Avançon
Avançon
Avançon
Coordinates: 49°28′34″N 4°14′45″E
CountryFrance
RegionGrand Est
DepartmentArdennes
ArrondissementRethel
CantonChâteau-Porcien
IntercommunalityPays Rethélois
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Hubert Launois
Area
1
20.99 km2 (8.10 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
313
 • Density15/km2 (39/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
08038 /08300
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 Avançonnais or Avançonnaises.[2]

Geography

Avançon is located some 10 km south-west of Rethel and 11 km east of Asfeld. Access to the commune is by the D18 road from Acy-Romance in the north-east which passes through the commune to the village near the centre then continues west to Blanzy-la-Salonnaise. The D26 road goes from the village north to Taizy. The D150 goes south-west from the village to Saint-Loup-en-Champagne. The commune is entirely farmland.[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages[3]

Heraldry
Arms of Avançon, Ardennes
 Blazon:

Azure, a fleur-de-lis Argent between three mullets Or.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors[4]

FromToNamePartyPosition
17931807Rémy Tagnon
18071830Guillaume Alexandre Monceau
18301839Jean Trichet
18391843Barthélémy Michelet
18431876Jean Nicolas Rémy Legrand
18761892Alexandre Paul Victor Koehler
18921912Hubert Emmanuel Legros
19121919Charles Eugène Michelet
19191921Barthélémy Michelet
19211929Edmond Désiré Lefevre
19291965Rémy Achille Monceau
19651994Bernard Edmond Lefevre
19942001Marie-Hélène Michelet
20012014Philippe Hourlier
20142020Hubert Launois

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 328 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 communes that have a sample survey every year.[Note 1]

Population change (See database)
1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851
475 490 488 501 461 477 488 492 515
1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896
- - 478 480 464 431 418 398 394
1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954
404 406 332 260 301 268 268 292 292
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2010 -
291 262 258 270 322 300 - 328 -
Population of Avançon

Culture and heritage

Religious heritage

The commune has one religious building that is registered as an historical monument:

  • The Church of Saint Remi (13th century)[5] The Church contains one item that is registered as an historical object:

Notable people linked to the commune

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Inhabitants of Ardennes (in French)
  3. Google Maps
  4. List of Mayors of France (in French)
  5. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00078338 Church of Saint Remi (in French)
  6. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM08000039 Eagle Lectern (in French)
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