Auge, Ardennes

Auge
Commune
Entry to the village
Coat of arms
Location of Auge
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Coordinates: 49°51′41″N 4°16′15″E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Ardennes
Arrondissement	Charleville-Mézières
Canton	Rocroi
Intercommunality	CC Ardennes Thiérache
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Yves Chevanne[1]
Area ^1	4.5 km^2 (1.7 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	58
• Density	13/km^2 (33/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	08030 /08380
Elevation	199–262 m (653–860 ft) (avg. 250 m or 820 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Auge (French pronunciation: [oʒ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

Geography

Auge is located some 45 km west by north-west of Charleville-Mézières and 22 km east by south-east of Hirson. The western border of the commune is the border between the departments of Ardennes and Aisne. Access to the commune is by the European route E44 (D 8043) from Hirson which passes through the north of the commune and continues east to Maubert-Fontaine. Access to the village is by either the Grande Rue or by the Ruelle de l'Église which both branch south from the E44. Apart from a band of forest on the south-eastern border (The Bois de Moirvaux) and some patches of forest in the south-west the commune is entirely farmland.[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Toponymy

The name of the town was written Ogiae in 1112 in a privilege of Pope Paschal II to the Abbey of Saint-Nicaise in Reims and as Oggeium in a bull of Innocent II for the same monastery at Reims.[4]

History

This site has been on an ancient road between Mézières and the North since Classical Antiquity. Gallo-Roman foundations, coins, and pieces of pottery have been found.[5]

Heraldry

Arms of Auge

Blazon: Party per bend sinister, at 1 Azure, three mullets of Or in orle; at 2 Gules, a cock of Or.

Administration

La tour du vent Farm

The Town Hall

The Lavoir (Public laundry)

the Church of Saint-Gorgery

List of Successive Mayors[6]

From	To	Name
2001	2008	André Triplot
2008	current	Jean-Yves Chevanne

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 60 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 148 —     1800 147 −0.10% 1806 78 −10.02% 1821 145 +4.22% 1831 158 +0.86% 1836 160 +0.25% 1841 177 +2.04% 1846 183 +0.67% 1851 232 +4.86% 1866 189 −1.36% 1872 175 −1.27% 1876 174 −0.14% 1881 174 +0.00% 1886 177 +0.34% 1891 173 −0.46% 1896 169 −0.47% 1901 148 −2.62%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 142 −0.82% 1911 121 −3.15% 1921 126 +0.41% 1926 114 −1.98% 1931 105 −1.63% 1936 114 +1.66% 1946 112 −0.18% 1954 95 −2.04% 1962 95 +0.00% 1968 82 −2.42% 1975 72 −1.84% 1982 66 −1.24% 1990 69 +0.56% 1999 69 +0.00% 2007 60 −1.73% 2012 53 −2.45% 2017 60 +2.51%
Source: EHESS[7] and INSEE[8]

Sites and monuments

The Tombstone of Jacques de Corderand, his wife, and his son (18th century) in the Church of Saint-Gorgery is registered as an historical object.[9]

Notable people linked to the commune

Ardennes Red Turkey

• Jean-Michel Devresse, a farmer at Auge, relaunched livestock farming of Ardennes Red Turkeys (Dindon rouge des Ardennes) in 1985, so that this species would not disappear.

See also

• Communes of the Ardennes department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. Google Maps
4. Auguste Longnon, Study on the pagi of Gaul, Honoré Champion, Paris, 1977, Reprint of the Paris edition of 1869. (in French)
5. Blaise Pichon, Archaeological Map of Gaul: 02. Aisne, Volume 2, 2003, p.292 (in French)
6. List of Mayors of France (in French)
7. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Auge, EHESS (in French).
8. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
9. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM08000032 Tombstone of Jacques de Corderand, his wife, and his son (in French)

External links

• Auge on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Auge on the 1750 Cassini Map