Les Assions

Les Assions
Les Assions
Commune
	View of the village at the foot of Puech
	Location of Les Assions
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	Coordinates: 44°25′20″N 4°10′28″E / 44.4222°N 4.1744°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Largentière
Canton	Les Cévennes ardéchoises
Intercommunality	CC Pays Vans Cévennes
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Emmanuel Legras
Area 1	14.88 km2 (5.75 sq mi)
Population (2021)	770
• Density	52/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	07017 /07140
Elevation	122–329 m (400–1,079 ft) ; (avg. 200 m or 660 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Les Assions is a commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southern France.

Geography

Les Assions is located some 35 km south-west of Aubenas and 5 km north-east of Les Vans. Access to the commune is by the D104A road from Lablachère in the north passing through the heart of the commune just east of the village and continuing south to join the D295 near Vompdes. The D452 branches off the D104A in the commune and goes east by a circuitous route to the Village de Vacances Francaises de Casteljau. The D104 from Lablachère to Saint-Paul-le-Jeune forms the eastern border of the commune. Access to the village is by a country road (Le Village) branching north from the D104A in the south of the commune. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Le Bosc in the west, Le Bourel and La Ribeyrie to the north-east and Champetier-Haut in the north. The commune east of the Salindres river is mostly wasteland and forest while the west side is mostly forest with farmland and residential areas.^[3]

The Chassezac river forms the southern border of the commune as it flows east to join the Ardeche at Saint-Alban-Auriolles. The Riviere de Salindres flows south through the commune to join the Chassezac and several other tributaries rise in the commune and flow into the Chassezac.^[3]

The vegetation includes predominantly oak trees, olive trees and chestnut trees.

Neighbouring communes and villages^[3]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name
1848		Boize^[5]
	1995	Jean Duny
1995	2014	Michel Moutet
2014	2020	Pascal Redon
2020	current	Emmanuel Legras

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Assionais or Assionaises in French.^[6]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	1,178	—
1800	979	−2.61%
1806	1,036	+0.95%
1821	1,042	+0.04%
1831	1,177	+1.23%
1836	1,274	+1.60%
1841	1,357	+1.27%
1846	1,471	+1.63%
1851	1,464	−0.10%
1856	1,424	−0.55%
1861	1,250	−2.57%
1866	1,205	−0.73%
1872	1,240	+0.48%
1876	1,194	−0.94%
1881	1,007	−3.35%
1886	976	−0.62%
1891	972	−0.08%
1896	931	−0.86%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	882	−1.08%
1906	848	−0.78%
1911	779	−1.68%
1921	664	−1.58%
1926	612	−1.62%
1931	593	−0.63%
1936	570	−0.79%
1946	700	+2.08%
1954	444	−5.53%
1962	495	+1.37%
1968	456	−1.36%
1975	402	−1.78%
1982	440	+1.30%
1990	448	+0.23%
1999	529	+1.86%
2009	646	+2.02%
2014	697	+1.53%
2020	764	+1.54%

Source: EHESS^[7] and INSEE^[8]

Distribution of Age Groups

The population of the town is relatively old.

Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Les Assions and Ardèche Department in 2017

	Les Assions		Ardèche
Age Range	Men	Women	Men	Women
0 to 14 Years	14.9	17.0	17.7	16.1
15 to 29 Years	9.2	8.9	14.4	13.0
30 to 44 Years	18.2	17.3	17.3	16.9
45 to 59 Years	18.4	17.3	21.6	20.7
60 to 74 Years	28.2	27.2	19.7	19.7
75 to 89 Years	11.1	10.9	8.5	11.2
90 Years+	0.0	1.5	0.9	2.4

Source: INSEE^[9]^[10]

Sites and monuments

The abandoned village of Cornilhon
The Clochans on the Plateau des Gras
The Chapel of Sainte-Apollonie from the 19th century on top of the Puech
The Church of Saint-Apollinaire, rebuilt in the 17th and 19th centuries on the ruins of a Roman church

The Church of Saint-Apollinaire contains three items that are registered as historical objects: