Boulaur
Boulaur is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.
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Coordinates: 43°32′30″N 0°46′29″E | |
Country | France |
Region | Occitanie |
Department | Gers |
Arrondissement | Auch |
Canton | Astarac-Gimone |
Intercommunality | Arrats-Gimone |
Government | |
• Mayor (2008–2014) | Jean-Paul Ruetsch |
Area 1 | 9.03 km2 (3.49 sq mi) |
Population (2017-01-01)[1] | 179 |
• Density | 20/km2 (51/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 32061 /32450 |
Elevation | 162–285 m (531–935 ft) (avg. 155 m or 509 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Geography
Population
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1793 | 346 | — |
1800 | 228 | −34.1% |
1806 | 374 | +64.0% |
1821 | 438 | +17.1% |
1831 | 449 | +2.5% |
1841 | 438 | −2.4% |
1846 | 433 | −1.1% |
1851 | 412 | −4.8% |
1856 | 443 | +7.5% |
1861 | 431 | −2.7% |
1866 | 473 | +9.7% |
1872 | 422 | −10.8% |
1876 | 431 | +2.1% |
1886 | 379 | −12.1% |
1881 | 408 | +7.7% |
1891 | 395 | −3.2% |
1896 | 345 | −12.7% |
1901 | 330 | −4.3% |
1906 | 296 | −10.3% |
1911 | 299 | +1.0% |
1921 | 247 | −17.4% |
1926 | 227 | −8.1% |
1931 | 208 | −8.4% |
1936 | 197 | −5.3% |
1946 | 219 | +11.2% |
1954 | 203 | −7.3% |
1962 | 133 | −34.5% |
1968 | 163 | +22.6% |
1975 | 154 | −5.5% |
1982 | 140 | −9.1% |
1990 | 126 | −10.0% |
1999 | 128 | +1.6% |
2008 | 151 | +18.0% |
Abbey
St Mary's Abbey of Boulaur, a former priory of the Order of Fontevraud, is a monastery of Cistercian nuns. It was founded in the 12th century and was originally a Fontevrist monastery that was abolished during the French Revolution. Cistercian nuns reinstated it at the end of the 19th century, and were expelled]] under the Associations Act of 1901. Monastic life was definitively restored in 1949. In 2011 the community had about thirty nuns.
See also
Further reading
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- Histoire de l'ordre de Fontevrault, 1100-1908; by the Religious of Sainte-Marie-de-Fontevrault-de-Boulaur (afterwards at Vera in Navarre). 3 vols. Auch, 1911–15
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