La Bastide-de-Bousignac

La Bastide-de-Bousignac
Commune
The bell tower in La Bastide-de-Bousignac
Coat of arms
Location of La Bastide-de-Bousignac
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Coordinates: 43°03′17″N 1°53′10″E / 43.0547°N 1.8861°E / 43.0547; 1.8861
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Ariège
Arrondissement	Pamiers
Canton	Mirepoix
Intercommunality	Pays de Mirepoix
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Alain Simorre[1]
Area 1	12.53 km2 (4.84 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	336
• Density	27/km2 (69/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	09039 /09500
Elevation	310–500 m (1,020–1,640 ft) (avg. 326 m or 1,070 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

La Bastide-de-Bousignac (French pronunciation: [la bastid də buziɲak]; Occitan: La Bastida de Bosinhac) is a commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.^[3]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bousignacois or Bousignacoises.^[4]

La Bastide-de-Bousignac is located just 3 km south of Mirepoix and 2 km north of Saint-Quentin-la-Tour. Access to the commune is by the D625 road from Mirepoix which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues south to Saint-Quentin-la-Tour. The D7 goes east from the village to Lagarde. The D7A goes south-west from the village to Saint-Julien-de-Gras-Capou. The D78 comes from Saint-Julien-de-Gras-Capou in the south and passes north through the western arm of the commune continuing to join the D13 south of Besset. The commune is mixed farmland and forest.^[5][6]

The Countirou river flows from the south through the centre of the commune and the village and continues north to join the Hers at Mirepoix. The Ruisseau de Gradal rises in the east of the commune and flows west to join the Countirou north of the village. The Ruisseau de Mazeroles flows through the western arm of the commune from south to north continuing north to join the Hers at Besset.^[5][6]

La Bastide-de-Bousignac appears as la Baftide de Bouzujnac on the 1750 Cassini Map^[7] and as la Baftide on the 1790 version.^[8]

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List of Successive Mayors^[9]

In February 2013 Roger Senie announces he would not stand in 2014.^[10][11] In July 2013 he was reelected mayor after resigning in protest against the forced inclusion of La Bastide-de-Bousignac into the community of communes of the Pays de Mirepoix. Serving from 1947 to 2014, he was the oldest mayor in France equally with Arthur Richier, the mayor of Faucon-du-Caire in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.^[12] who, like him, did not stand in March 2014.^[13]

In 2017 the commune had 338 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 454 —     1800 378 −2.58% 1806 457 +3.21% 1821 460 +0.04% 1831 504 +0.92% 1836 505 +0.04% 1841 489 −0.64% 1846 516 +1.08% 1851 507 −0.35% 1856 477 −1.21% 1861 484 +0.29% 1866 458 −1.10% 1872 449 −0.33% 1876 439 −0.56% 1881 443 +0.18% 1886 427 −0.73% 1891 403 −1.15% 1896 390 −0.65%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 355 −1.86% 1906 343 −0.69% 1911 323 −1.19% 1921 272 −1.70% 1926 280 +0.58% 1931 290 +0.70% 1936 272 −1.27% 1946 267 −0.19% 1954 284 +0.77% 1962 276 −0.36% 1968 251 −1.57% 1975 248 −0.17% 1982 296 +2.56% 1990 311 +0.62% 1999 327 +0.56% 2007 333 +0.23% 2012 338 +0.30% 2017 338 +0.00%
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Source: EHESS[14] and INSEE[15]

• The Church Bell (Middle Ages) is registered as an historical monument.^[16]

• Pierre Espert de Sibra (1771–1835), General of the armies of the Republic and the Empire, died in the hamlet of Balach.
• Roger Sénié (born in 1921), Mayor of the commune from 1947 to 2014

• Communes of the Ariège department

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