Beaujeu (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
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| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |
| Department | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | |
| Arrondissement | Digne-les-Bains | |
| Canton | Seyne | |
| Community association | Provence-Alpes agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 12 ′ N , 6 ° 22 ′ E | |
| height | 821-2,153 m | |
| surface | 45.68 km 2 | |
| Residents | 130 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 3 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 04420 | |
| INSEE code | 04024 | |
 Church and parish hall |
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Beaujeu is a French commune of 130 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . It belongs to the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department , the Digne-les-Bains arrondissement and the Seyne canton .
geography
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The village is located on the Arigéol , a right tributary of the Bléone , at an altitude of 880 meters above sea level around 20 kilometers northeast of Digne-les-Bains .
The scattered settlement includes the following hamlets: Boullard , Le Clucheret , l'Escale , Fonfrède , Le Labouret , Saint-Pierre , Les Traverses-Hautes and Le Villard . The municipal area also includes the following mountain peaks: Sommet du Blayeul ( 2189 m ), Sommet de Chappe ( 1667 m ) and the Col du Labouret ( 1240 m ) on the Route départementale 900. They are made of black slate (French: schiste ).
history
The place was first mentioned in 1147 as Beljog , but a moth that was simply called La Tour ("the tower") was built as early as the 11th century. The barony of Beaujeu extended over the former parishes of Mariaud and Clucheiret. On the mountain pass route du col de Labouret was in the late Middle Ages a toll confiscated. During the French Revolution , a political club was founded in the village in 1792 .
Toponomics
The place name is derived from the Latin bellum jugum , which means something like "beautiful (mountain) yoke ". About the Occitan but debate there was a corruption and the term mutated into Bèl joc what in the French language high beau jeu ( "beautiful game") means.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2016 |
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| Residents | 121 | 92 | 110 | 109 | 129 | 152 | 155 | 133 |
In 1315 Beaujeu had 103 inhabitants after a fire, in 1471 there were only 18 after another fire. In 1793 the village had 372 inhabitants, in 1831 the population peaked at 450. After that a steady downward trend began, the population fell to 92 inhabitants in 1968.
Attractions
- Church Eglise de l'Assomption in the hamlet of Saint-Pierre
- Church église de la Transfiguration in the hamlet of Boullard (built 1824)
- Church of église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption in Beaujeu (16th to 19th centuries)
- Two relay stations have been preserved on the road to Le Labouret : one in the center of the village and the other at the foot of the pass, which was very difficult to climb.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France - étymologie de 35,000 noms de lieux . Librairie Droz, Geneva 1990.
