Salies-de-Béarn

Salies-de-Béarn (Occitan: Salias) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

Salies-de-Béarn
Commune
Town Hall
Coat of arms
Location of Salies-de-Béarn
Salies-de-Béarn
Salies-de-Béarn
Coordinates: 43°28′16″N 0°55′30″W
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentPyrénées-Atlantiques
ArrondissementOloron-Sainte-Marie
CantonOrthez et Terres des Gaves et du Sel
IntercommunalitySalies-de-Béarn
Government
 • Mayor (2001–2008) Lucien Basse-Cathalinat
Area
1
52.08 km2 (20.11 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
4,638
 • Density89/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
64499 /64270
Elevation28–202 m (92–663 ft)
(avg. 56 m or 184 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The name comes from its naturally occurring saline water (Gascon salias for Standard Occitan salinas). During the expanded, pre-liberation occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Salies was on the border between the occupied zone and the free zone.

Between September 1941 and the summer of 1942, Jean Anouilh wrote his famous adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, Antigone in the comparatively idyllic setting of Salies-de-Bearn, relieved of the invader's presence, the evening curfews and the deprivations of Paris. The play premiered in Occupied Paris in February 1944.

Salies-de-Bearn served as the setting for the writer Trevanian's novel, The Summer of Katya. In the book, it was renamed Salies-les-Bains.

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.


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