Arricau-Bordes

Arricau-Bordes (Occitan: Arricau-Bòrdas) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

Arricau-Bordes
Commune
The road into Arricau-Bordes
Location of Arricau-Bordes
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Coordinates: 43°29′39″N 0°08′01″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Terres des Luys et Coteaux du Vic-Bilh
Intercommunality	Nord-Est Béarn
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Marie-Odile Rigaud
Area ^1	8.10 km^2 (3.13 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	108
• Density	13/km^2 (35/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64052 /64350
Elevation	140–299 m (459–981 ft) (avg. 284 m or 932 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

View of Arricau-Bordes

Some houses in the village

Arricau-Bordes is located some 12 km north-west of Maubourguet and some 40 km north-east of Pau. Access to the commune is by the D13 road from Cadillon in the north passing through the heart of the commune and through the village then continuing south to Lembeye. The D298 from Aurions-Idernes forms the entire eastern border of the commune as it goes south to join the D13 north of Lembaye. The D228 comes from Séméacq-Blachon in the east and passes through the south of the commune west to Gayon. About 60% of the commune is forested mostly in a north–south belt through the centre with the rest of the commune farmland.[2]

The Lisau river flows through the heart of the commune from the Lac de Castillon just over the southern border to the Lac de Cadillon just over the northern border of the commune.[2]

Places and Hamlets[3]

• Arricau
• Les Balances
• Barbé
• Bordes
• Le Calvaire
• Carboué
• Castagnat
• Cazenave
• Cerisère
• Domengé[4]
• Hauzoué
• Lahitole[4][5]
• Laramoune
• Lecher
• Marchand
• Mereït
• Pédéjouan
• Péhat
• La Riberette
• Séglères
• Tisné
• Val Pré

Neighbouring communes and villages[2]

Toponymy

The commune name in béarnais is Arricau-Bordas.

According to Michel Grosclaude the name Arricau was formed from two Gascon terms: arric, meaning "ravine" or "Thalweg", and cau, meaning "sunken".[6]

Bordes comes from the Occitan borda meaning "house" or "Farm".[7]

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

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Arricau	Arricau	12th century	Raymond	12	Marca	Village
	Arricau	1385	Raymond	12	Census
	Ricau	14th century	Raymond	12	Census
	Arricau-Viele	1538	Raymond	12	Reformation
Bordes	Bordas	11th century	Raymond	33	Lescar	Village
	Bordes en Vic-Bilh	1673	Raymond	33	Reformation
Domengé	L'ostau de Domenger	1385	Raymond	56	Census	Farm
Lahitole	La Fitola	1538	Raymond	89	Reformation	Hamlet
	Lahitolle	1673	Raymond	89	Reformation
	Lafitole	1863	Raymond	89
	La Fitole	1863	Raymond	89
Nouguès	Noguer	1385	Raymond	123	Census	Farm
Saint-Martin	Saint-Martin	1863	Raymond	150		Hamlet

Sources:

• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)[4]

Origins:

• Marca: Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn.[8]
• Census: Census of Béarn[9]
• Reformation: Reformation of Béarn[10]
• Lescar: Cartulary of Lescar[11]

History

Paul Raymond noted that, in 1385, Arricau and Bordes depended on the bailiwick of Lembeye and had respectively 18 and 12 fires. Arricau then had two parishes: Saint-Martin and Saint-Jacques. The fief of Bordes depended on the Viscounts of Béarn.[4]

Arricau and Bordes were merged between 1861 and 1866.[12]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors[13]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2008	Jean-Paul Cassou
2008	2014	Frédéric Cerisère
2014	2020	Marie-Odile Rigaud

(Not all data is known)

Inter-communality

The commune is part of four inter-communal structures:[14]

• the Community of communes of the Canton of Lembeye in Vic-Bilh;
• the AEP association of Pays de Lembeye;
• the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
• the irrigation association of the Lees valley;

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 103 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.[Note 1]

Population change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
250	180	-	263	213	301	290	269	249

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
231	215	326	336	326	344	338	312	280

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
267	226	228	192	178	178	172	150	118

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
139	124	126	105	102	105	106	103	-

Sources: Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Population of Arricau-Bordes

Economy

The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zones of Madiran, Pacherenc-du-vic-bilh, and Béarn.

Culture and Heritage

Civil heritage

Chateau of Arricau in 1926

The commune has many sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Chateau of Arricau (1572)[15] The Chateau contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
  • An Iron Host (17th century)[16]
  • A Stoup (18th century)[17]
  • An Hilarri (16th century)[18]
• The Chateau of Bordes at Bordes (18th century)[5]
• A House at Lahitole (1777)[5]
• Houses and Farms[19] Of the 40 buildings studied, 27 dated from before 1871.[19]

Religious heritage

The commune has two churches that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Parish Church of Saint-Jacques at Arricau (1570)[20] was mentioned in 1570 but was destroyed two centuries later.
• The Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist at Bordes (11th century)[21] The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
  • Chasuble (19th century)[22]
  • 2 Processional Lanterns (19th century)[23]
  • A Processional Cross (17th century)[24]
  • A Celebrant's Chair (18th century)[25]
  • An Altar, Altar step, and Tabernacle (18th century)[26]

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

External links

• Arricau-Bordes on Lion1906
• Arricau-Bordes on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Saint Martin d'Arricau, Saint Jacques d'Arricau, and Bordes on the 1750 Cassini Map

Notes and references

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Google Maps
3. Géoportail, IGN (in French)
4. Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
5. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026443 Chateau of Bordes (in French)
6. Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3 (in French)
7. Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (in French)
8. Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn
9. Manuscript from the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
10. Manuscript from the 16th to 18th centuries - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
11. Cartulary of the Bishop of Lescar, published in the proofs of the History of Béarn by Pierre de Marca (in French)
12. Communal Notice for Arricau-Nordes on the Cassini database (in French)
13. List of Mayors of France (in French)
14. Intercommunality of Pyrénées-Atlantiques Archived 2014-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, Cellule informatique préfecture 64, consulted on 9 March 2012 (in French)
15. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00084317 IA00026441 Chateau of Arricau(in French)
16. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002098 Iron Host (in French)
17. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002097 Stoup (in French)
18. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002096 Hilarri (in French)
19. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00027294 Houses and Farms (in French)
20. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00027519 Parish Church of Saint-Jacques (in French)
21. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026444 Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist (in French)
22. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002103 Chasuble (in French)
23. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002102 2 Processional Lanterns (in French)
24. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002101 Processional Cross (in French)
25. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002100 Celebrant's Chair (in French)
26. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002099 Altar, Altar step, and Tabernacle (in French)