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Pleaux is a French commune, located in the Cantal department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Localisation [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
It has the particularity, following the 1973 merger, of having a discontinuous territory, Tourniac being separated from the rest of the town by the neighboring municipalities of Barriac-les-Bosquets and Rilhac-Xaintrie (Corrèze). For a long time [ Note 1 ] , it was the largest municipality in Cantal.
It is crossed by the green meridian.
Hydrography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
It is bordered to the south by the Maronne, an important tributary of the Dordogne.
Typology [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
Pleaux is a rural commune [ Note 2 ] , [ first ] . It is indeed one of the municipalities that are not very little dense, in the sense of the municipal gate of INSEE density [ 2 ] , [ 3 ] .
The municipality is also outside the attraction of cities [ I 1 ] , [ I 2 ] .
Land use [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
The occupation of the soils of the municipality, as it emerges from the European Database for Biophysics of Corine Land Cover (CLC), is marked by the importance of agricultural territories (58.7% in 2018) , increasing compared to 1990 (56.2%). The detailed distribution in 2018 is as follows:
meadows (38.4%), forests (37.8%), heterogeneous agricultural areas (20.3%), continental waters [ Note 3 ] (1.6%), urbanized areas (1.3%), shrub and/or herbaceous (0.6%) environments (0.6%) [ 4 ] .
The IGN also provides an online tool to compare the evolution over time of the soil occupation of the municipality (or territories to different scales). Several eras are accessible in the form of aerial cards or photos: the Cassini card ( XVIII It is century), the staff map (1820-1866) and the current period (1950 to today) [ Card 1 ] .
Habitat and accommodation [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
In 2018, the total number of housing in the town was 1,620, while it was 1,663 in 2013 and 1,598 in 2008 [ I 3 ] .
Among these dwellings, 47.3% were main residences, 41.1% of secondary residences and 11.6% of vacant dwellings. These homes were 91.1% of them for individual houses and for 7.4% of apartments [ I 4 ] .
The table below presents the typology of housing in Pleaux in 2018 in comparison with that of Cantal and all of France. A striking characteristic of the housing fleet is thus a proportion of secondary residences and occasional housing (41.1%) greater than that of the department (20.4%) and that of the whole of France (9.7%). Regarding the status of occupation of these dwellings, 75.7% of the inhabitants of the municipality owned their housing (76.3% in 2013), against 70.4% for Cantal and 57.5 for the whole of France [ I 5 ] .
Typology | Pleaux [ I 3 ] | Cantal [ I 6 ] | Whole France [ I 7 ] |
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Main residences (in%) | 47.3 | 67.7 | 82.1 |
Secondary residences and occasional housing (in%) | 41.1 | 20.4 | 9.7 |
Vacant housing (in%) | 11.6 | 11.9 | 8.2 |
Attested in forms PLOUS In 1273, bleus In 1294.
Of the ancient Occitan they are gone (“Guarantee”, “deposit”), ie low Latin plebs , common people , “Parish church”.
In 1973, the mayor had added an accent in order to write “pleaux”, spelling which he thought closer to authentic pronunciation and which we still find in printed documents. The Occitan form is actually [Plew], graph bleus [ 5 ] .
On July 14, 1944, took place in the town, in the so-called “locksmith” land, very important drops of arms by B-17 American planes as part of Operation Cadillac. A stele was affixed in 1994 on the scene [ 6 ] .
The municipality has merged into [ 7 ] Under the regime of merger-association with the municipalities of Loupiac, Saint-Christophe-les-Gorges and Tourniac.
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Demographic evolution [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses made in the municipality since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the municipalities are published annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual information collection, successively concerning all the municipal territories during a period of five years. For municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey relating to the entire population is carried out every five years, the legal populations of the intermediate years being estimated by interpolation or extrapolation [ 9 ] . For the municipality, the first exhaustive census falling within the framework of the new system was carried out in 2007 [ ten ] .
In 2020, the town had 1,454 inhabitants [ Note 4 ] , in decrease of 5.03%compared to 2014 (Cantal: −1.53%, France excluding Mayotte: +13%).
Age structure [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
The population of the town is relatively old. In 2018, the rate of people of an age lower than 30 years amounts to 18.9%, a rate lower than the departmental average (27.0%). Conversely, the rate of people over 60 years old (48.2%) is higher than the departmental rate (35.5%).
In 2018, the municipality had 740 men for 735 women, a rate of 50.17% of men, higher than the departmental rate (48.87%).
The pyramids of the ages of the town and the department are established as follows:
Places and monuments [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
- The Saint-Sauveur church, which has become Saint-Jean-Baptiste, largely of XV It is century, has a Romanesque bell tower. It has been registered since 2017 in the inventory of historic monuments since 2017 [ 13 ] .
- The Saint-Victor church in Tourniac [ 14 ] .
- The town retains several constructions of XV It is At XVIII It is century [ 15 ] .
- The Enchanet dam is partly found in the town, on the Maronne at the limit with Arnac.
- The Château de Branzac is in the associated town of Loupiac.
- The Notre-Dame Chapel of the Château Bas, in Saint-Christophe-les-Gorges, where each year in August, pilgrims come to venerate a black virgin to the child, left in 1098 by Raoul de Scorailles, who left in crusade.
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House XVII It is century.
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House XVIII It is century.
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Heraldry [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
The weapons of the town are asbestos: Gules to the crawling greed of silver with azure, accompanied by six billets of the same orle ordinates. |
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Notes and cards [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
- Until the creation of the new town of Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère the .
- According to the zoning published in November 2020, in application of the new definition of rurality validated the in the interministerial rurality committee.
- Continental waters designate all surface waters, generally, alternative waters from rainwater, which are located inside the land.
- Legal municipal population in force at 1 is January 2023, vintage 2020, defined within the territorial limits in force at 1 is January 2022, Statistical reference date: 1 is January 2020.
References [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
INSEE website [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
Other sources [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
- ‘ Rural zoning » , on www.observatoire-des -territoires.gouv.fr (consulted the ) .
- ‘ Urban-Definition municipality » (consulted the ) .
- ‘ Understand the density grid » , on www.observatoire-des -territoires.gouv.fr (consulted the ) .
- ‘ Corine Land Cover (CLC) – Distribution of areas in 15 land use stations (metropolitan area). » , on the Statistical data and studies site of the Ministry of Ecological Transition. (consulted the )
- (oc) Josiane Guillot, Tiène Codert, Daniel Brugès, Parlem! Vai-i qu’as paur! : Trusstrala Auvernhata Magazine , t. 18: Iganauds in Auvèrnha , Clermont-Ferrand / Thiers, Institute of Occitan Studies, ( read online ) .
- Jean Robin, ‘ Serrurier field – Cadillac operation » , on Aerostles , .
- From the villages of Cassini to today’s municipalities On the site of the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences.
- Official Journal of first is January 1886.
- The organization of the census , on INSEE.fr.
- Departmental censuses calendar , on INSEE.fr.
- INSEE – Legal populations of the town for years 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , two thousand and thirteen , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 And 2020 .
- INSEE, ‘ Evolution and structure of the population in 2018 – Cantal Department (15) » , (consulted the ) .
- ‘ Saint-Sauveur church » , notice n O PA00093575, Base Mérimée, French Ministry of Culture
- Pays de Salers Tourism
- ‘ Pleaux | Small cities of character » , on petitescitesdecaractere.com (consulted the )
- Centre France , ‘ The Pleavian poet, Raymond Mil has left a particularly rich work » (consulted the )
Bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
- Roger Grand « Treaty of betting between Philippe le Bel and the abbot of Charroux for the creation of a frank city in Pleaux 1289-1290 », Historical and Scientifical works comity. Historical and philological bulletin , – n you 1 and 2 – 10 pages
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