Assencières

Assencières
Commune
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Coat of arms
Location of Assencières
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Coordinates: 48°21′32″N 4°11′59″E / 48.3589°N 4.1997°E / 48.3589; 4.1997
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Aube
Arrondissement	Troyes
Canton	Brienne-le-Château
Intercommunality	CC Forêts Lacs Terres Champagne
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Louis Pinet[1]
Area 1	7.39 km2 (2.85 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	187
• Density	25/km2 (66/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	10014 /10220
Elevation	164 m (538 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Assencières (French pronunciation: [asɑ̃sjɛʁ]) is a commune in the Aube department in the Grand Est region of north-central France.

Assencières is located some 11 km north-east of Troyes and 8 km south-east of Charmont-sous-Barbuise. Access to the commune is by the D 8 road from Luyères in the north passing through the village and the heart of the commune and continuing to Mesnil-Sellières in the south. The D 100 also starts from the village and goes north-east to Bouy-Luxembourg. There is a railway passing through the commune from Charmont-sous-Barbuise in the north to La Chapelle-Saint-Luc in the south-west but there is no station in or near the commune. The commune is entirely flat farmland.^[3]

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List of Successive Mayors^[4]

In 2017 the commune had 171 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 176 —     1800 162 −1.18% 1806 155 −0.73% 1821 157 +0.09% 1831 138 −1.28% 1836 140 +0.29% 1841 139 −0.14% 1846 134 −0.73% 1851 127 −1.07% 1856 123 −0.64% 1861 112 −1.86% 1866 110 −0.36% 1872 112 +0.30% 1876 108 −0.91% 1881 101 −1.33% 1886 102 +0.20% 1891 91 −2.26% 1896 82 −2.06%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 78 −1.00% 1906 72 −1.59% 1911 62 −2.95% 1921 62 +0.00% 1926 87 +7.01% 1931 87 +0.00% 1936 92 +1.12% 1946 77 −1.76% 1954 77 +0.00% 1962 68 −1.54% 1968 73 +1.19% 1975 85 +2.20% 1982 89 +0.66% 1990 106 +2.21% 1999 145 +3.54% 2007 170 +2.01% 2012 204 +3.71% 2017 171 −3.47%
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Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE[6]

The Church of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul used to have three naves from the 16th century which collapsed in 1947.^[7] There are many items which are registered as historical objects:

• Stoup (17th century)^[8]
• Sculpture: Christ on the cross (19th century)^[9]
• Main Altar, Tabernacle, and Retable (18th century)^[10]
• Retable star (18th century)^[11]
• Statue: Saint-Pierre (16th century)^[12]
• Statue: Saint-Fiacre (16th century)^[13]
• Processional cross (17th century)^[14]
• Group Sculpture: Christ & 2 angels with the instruments of the Passion (16th century)^[15]
• Stained glass windows: Death of the Virgin (16th century)^[16]
• Statue: Virgin & child (16th century)^[17]
• Stained glass windows: Visitation of Saint-Pierre (16th century)^[18]
• Reliquary-bust: Saint-Fiacre (18th century)^[19]
• Bronze Bell (17th century)^[20]
• Choir balustrade (18th century)^[21]
• Stained glass window: the Crucifixion (16th century)^[22]
• Glass figure in Bay 2 (15th century)^[23]
• Glass figure in Bay 0 (15th century)^[24]

Alexandre Marchais, who was called Le Mose, was born in 1962 and spent his childhood in Assencières. He made his first steps in performing at parties before turning to street music and eventually join a travelling troupe of acrobats. But it was in the gypsy community that he is known by becoming one of the leading exponents of ericius music.

• Communes of the Aube department
• Parc naturel régional de la Forêt d'Orient

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

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