Montesquieu-Avantès

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Montesquieu-Avantès
Montesquiu Avantés
Montesquieu-Avantès (France)
Montesquieu-Avantès
region Occitania
Department Ariège
Arrondissement Saint-Girons
Canton Portes du Couserans
Community association Couserans-Pyrénées
Coordinates 43 ° 1 ′  N , 1 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 1 ′  N , 1 ° 12 ′  E
height 430-690 m
surface 16.52 km 2
Residents 245 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 15 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 09200
INSEE code 09204

Saint-Etienne village church

Montesquieu-Avantès ( Occitan : Montesquiu Avantés ) is a French commune with 245 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Ariège department in the Occitania region ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Saint-Girons , the association of municipalities Couserans-Pyrénées and the canton of Portes du Couserans (until 2015: canton of Saint-Lizier ). The inhabitants are called Montesquivais / Montesquivaises .

geography

Montesquieu-Avantès is located around 68 kilometers southwest of the city of Toulouse in the west of the Ariège department. The municipality consists of the village of Montesquieu-Avantès, the hamlets of Bouinéous and Bourch , numerous scattered settlements and individual farms. The river Volp crosses the municipality in a westerly direction. Montesquieu-Avantès is located within the Pyrénées Ariégeoises Regional Nature Park . Large parts of the community are forested. The village of Montesquieu-Avantès is on the D215b. The D117 from Foix to Tarbes runs a few kilometers south of the municipality.

Montesquieu-Avantès is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Mauvezin-de-Sainte-Croix in the north, Camarade in the northeast, Lescure in the east and southeast, Montjoie-en-Couserans in the south and west, and Contrazy in the northwest.

history

The place has been inhabited since the Stone Age. Paintings and objects from the Stone Age were discovered in caves. A bastide was built on the instructions of the Count of Comminges. In the wars of religion the community was devastated by Huguenots in 1572. Only between 20 and 30 residents survived the attack. In the Middle Ages, the place was within the province of Couserans, which in turn was part of the province of Gascony. On July 20, 1912, Count Henri-Napoléon Begouën and his three sons discovered the Grotte du Tuc d'Audoubert with its bison figures. And on July 20, 1914, the same people found the Grotte d'Enlène with wall paintings. The parish was part of the Saint-Girons district from 1793 to 1801. In addition, Montesquieu-Avantès was in the canton of Rimont from 1793 to 1801 and then within the canton of Saint-Lizier from 1801 to 2015 . The parish has been assigned to the Arrondissement of Saint-Girons since 1801.

Population development

year 1793 1851 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2014
Residents 520 833 349 375 323 265 280 270 240 226 252
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Stone Age caves: Grotte d'Enlène , Grotte du Tuc d'Audoubert and Grotte des 3 frères (discovered by the three sons of Count Henri-Napoléon Begouën)
  • Church Saint-Etienne in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • Bergerat Chapel
  • Crossroads Croix de Péré on the D18e
  • Ruins of the Montesquieu Castle
  • Château Carrère castle
  • Château Miramont castle
  • Lavoir (wash house)
  • Memorial to the Fallen
  • numerous wayside crosses

Web links

Commons : Montesquieu-Avantès  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial to the Fallen