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Arget

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Arget
Commune
An old farmhouse in Arget
An old farmhouse in Arget
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CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentPyrénées-Atlantiques
ArrondissementPau
CantonArtix et Pays de Soubestre
IntercommunalityLuys en Béarn
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Thierry Soustra[1]
Area
1
4.00 km2 (1.54 sq mi)
Population
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Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
64044 /64410
Elevation75–182 m (246–597 ft)
(avg. 131 m or 430 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Arget (French pronunciation: [aʁʒɛt]; Occitan: Argent) is a commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. It is part of the traditional province of Béarn.

Geography

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Arget is located some 18 km north-east of Orthez and 12 km south-east of Hagetmau on the border between Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Landes departments. It can be accessed by the D264 road from Montagut in the east passing through the commune and the village (of 2 buildings) and continuing south-west to Casteide-Candau. The commune has quite large areas of forest in the west but is mostly farmland.[2]

Several streams rise in the commune with the Hourquet forming the north-western border as it flows north-east to join the Ruisseau de la Rance at the northern tip of the commune. The Rance forms the north-eastern border as it flows north-west. The south-eastern border also consists of an unnamed stream which joins the Rance just outside the eastern tip of the commune.[2]

Places and hamlets

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  • Bayoc
  • Boué[3]
  • Capère
  • Carrèrot[4]
  • Castagnet
  • Conte
  • Cousnat
  • Glaude
  • Herris
  • Hibet[5]
  • Hourcq[6]
  • Ménou
  • Montaut
  • Pourtique[7]
  • Régidou
  • Séris
  • Touroun[8]
  • Vignau

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Neighbouring communes and villages

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Toponymy

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The commune name in béarnais is Arget.

Michel Grosclaude was unable to justify the local belief that the name means "sandy place" from arena (meaning "sand") with the collective suffix -etum (giving arenetum then arenet then areet then ariet), and could not conclude other than "of uncertain origin and meaning".[10]

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Name Spelling Date Source Page Origin Description
Arget Argiet 1383 Raymond
10
 Luntz Village
Arzet 1695 Raymond
10
 Order of Malta
Arget 1750 Cassini

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Origins:

History

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Paul Raymond said on page 10 of his 1863 Topographical Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees that Arget depended on the Commandery of Malta of Caubin and Morlaàs and on the Barony of Moustrou, built in 1647, and was a vassal of the Viscounts of Béarn.[11]

Administration

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File:Arget Mairie.JPG
The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors[14]

From To Name
1995 2001 Chantal Gallenmuller
2001 2026 Thierry Soustra

Demography

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The inhabitants of the commune are known as Argétois or Argétoises in French.[15]

Culture and heritage

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File:Arget War Memorial.JPG
Arget War Memorial

Civil heritage

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Arget has many farms that are registered as historical monuments:

Religious heritage

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The Church of Notre Dame
File:Arget Church Main Altar.JPG
Main Altar

The Parish Church of Notre Dame (12th century)File:Logo monument historique - rouge sans texte.svg is registered as an historical monument.[21] It contains several items that are registered as historical objects:

Notable people

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  2. ^ a b c Google Maps
  3. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000066 Farmhouse at Boué (in French)
  4. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000063 Farmhouse at Carrèrot (in French)
  5. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000064 Farmhouse at Hibet (in French)
  6. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000061 Farmhouse at Hourcq (in French)
  7. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000059 Menusé farm at Pourtique (in French)
  8. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000060 Farmhouse at Touroun (in French)
  9. ^ Géoportail, IGN (in French)
  10. ^ a b Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (in French)
  11. ^ a b Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
  12. ^ Contracts retained by Luntz, Notary of Béarn in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  13. ^ Titles of the Order of Malta in the Departmental Archives of Haute-Garonne (in French)
  14. ^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
  15. ^ Pyrénées-Atlantiques, habitants.fr
  16. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Arget, EHESS (in French).
  17. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  18. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000065 Lajournade farm at Pourtique (in French)
  19. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000062 Pemeste farm at Hourcq (in French)
  20. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000135 Houses and Farms (in French)
  21. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000001 Parish Church of Notre Dame (in French)
  22. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002827 Furniture in the Church (in French)
  23. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002780 Supplementary list of Furniture in the Church (in French)
  24. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002651 Bronze Processional Cross (in French)
  25. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002650 Wooden Processional Cross (in French)
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