Aydie is located some 40 km north-east of Pau and 15 km east of Garlin. The northern border of the commune is the departmental border between Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Gers and the eastern border is the border with Hautes-Pyrénées. Access to the commune is by the D292 road from Aubous to Arrosès which passes south through the west of the commune. The D317 branches off the D205 west of the commune and goes east through the commune to the village then continues east, changing to the D548 at the border, to join the D48. The commune is mainly farmland with scattered forests in the west.[3]
The Sager river forms the eastern border of the commune as it flows north to join the Adour at Saint-Mont. Several streams rise in the west of the commune and flow east to join the Sager including the Boutigué which forms part of the northern border of the commune.
The commune name in béarnais is Aidia. Michel Grosclaude said that the name probably has a common root with Aydius but the origin and meaning of the name remains obscure.[20]
The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.
Establishments: Register of Establishments of Béarn[24]
History
Paul Raymond noted on page 18 of his 1863 dictionary that in 1395 Aydie had 25 fires and Poey (Page 136) had 6 fires with both of them under the bailiwick of Lembeye.
The commune is part of five inter-communal structures:
the Communauté de communes des Luys en Béarn;
the SIVU for roads in the Garlin region;
the SIVU for the Lées and its tributaries;
the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
the inter-communal association for drinking water in Luy-Gabas-Lées;
Demography
In 2017 the commune had 140 inhabitants.
Historical population
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1793
118
—
1800
427
+20.17%
1806
538
+3.93%
1821
502
−0.46%
1831
566
+1.21%
1836
615
+1.67%
1841
541
−2.53%
1846
570
+1.05%
1851
550
−0.71%
1856
514
−1.34%
1861
492
−0.87%
1866
473
−0.78%
1872
474
+0.04%
1876
520
+2.34%
1881
506
−0.54%
1886
435
−2.98%
1891
432
−0.14%
1896
406
−1.23%
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1901
410
+0.20%
1906
404
−0.29%
1911
382
−1.11%
1921
265
−3.59%
1926
272
+0.52%
1931
258
−1.05%
1936
251
−0.55%
1946
231
−0.83%
1954
203
−1.60%
1962
197
−0.37%
1968
191
−0.51%
1975
173
−1.40%
1982
167
−0.50%
1990
165
−0.15%
1999
136
−2.12%
2007
149
+1.15%
2012
130
−2.69%
2017
140
+1.49%
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Joseph Peyré, born in 1892 at Aydie and died in 1968 at Cannes, was a French writer. He won the Prix Goncourt in 1935 for his book Sang et Lumières (Blood and Lights). He evoked his native village under the pseudonym of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes.