Beaudéan

Beaudéan
Beaudéan and the church of Saint-Martin
Coat of arms
Beaudéan
Location within Midi-Pyrénées region Beaudéan
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Canton	Campan
Intercommunality	Haute-Bigorre
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jacques Brune (PRG)
Area1	16.7 km2 (6.4 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	390
• Density	23/km2 (60/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	65078 / 65710
Elevation	611–2,262 m (2,005–7,421 ft) (avg. 650 m or 2,130 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Beaudéan (Occitan: Beudian) is a French commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Midi-Pyrénées region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Beaudéannais or Beaudéannaises.

Geography

The Lavoir (Public laundry)

Beaudean is located at the mouth of the Lesponne valley and the Campan valley in the inter-communal cooperative of Haute-Bigorre some 20 km south by south-east of Tarbes and 5 km south of Bagnères-de-Bigorre. Access to the commune is by the D935 road from Pouzac in the north which passes through the eastern tip of the commune and the village and continues south-east to Campan. The D29 branches off the D935 in the commune and goes along the length of the commune south-west to end in Chiroulet. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of Serris. The commune is mixed forest and farmland in the north and rugged forested mountains in the south.

The Adour river forms the north-eastern border of the commune as it flows north-west eventually joining the Atlantic ocean at Boucau. The Adour de Lesponne flows from the south-west of the commune, forming much of the western border as it flows north-east, gathering tributaries such as the Ruisseau du Brouilh (which forms the southern border of the commune), the Ruisseau de Narbios, the Hourquet, and the Ruisseau de Hount Hérède, to join the Adour at the eastern corner of the commune. The Serris river flows north-east through the commune and the village to join the Adour. The Ruisseau de Binaros forms most of the eastern border of the commune as it flows north to join the Adour de Lesponne in the narrow "neck" of the commune.

Mapping

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Toponymy

Historical names:

• In Beldeyano, Latin (c. 1090, Larcher, Cartulary of Saint-Pé).
• Arnaldus de Beudean, Latin and Gascon (1283, Procès Bigorre).
• Beudeaa, (1285, Montre Bigorre).
• apud Beudeanum, Latin (1300, Enquête Bigorre).
• De Baudeano, Latin (1313 Debita regi Navarre; 1342, Pouillé of Tarbes).
• de Veudeano, Latin (1379 Procuration of Tarbes).
• Beudean (1429, Censier of Bigorre).
• Baudean, (1760, Larcher, Pouillé of Tarbes).

Beaudéan appears as Beaudean on the 1750 Cassini Map and the same on the 1790 version.

Beaudéan comes from the name of a domain. The Germanic personal name Bald-win (latinised as Baldinus) with the suffix -anum.

Heraldry

Blazon: Quarterly, 1 and 3 Or, a fir tree Vert; 2 and 4 Argent, a helm Gules in profile sinister between 2 bears standing and confronting of Sable.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1989	2020	Jacques Brune	PRG

(Not all data is known)

Judicial and administrative proceedings

Beaudéan falls within the area of the Tribunal d'instance (District court) of Tarbes, the Tribunal de grande instance (High Court) of Tarbes, the Cour d'appel (Appeal court) of Pau, the Tribunal pour enfants (Juvenile court) of Tarbes, the Conseil de prud'hommes (Labour Court) of Tarbes, the Tribunal de commerce (Commercial Court) of Tarbes, the Tribunal administratif (Administrative tribunal) of Pau, and the Cour administrative d'appel (Administrative Court of Appeal) of Bordeaux

Demography

In 2012 the commune had 999 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 communes that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
723	713	810	763	865	972	1,000	998	976

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
894	875	895	894	853	780	766	703	731

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
728	688	634	524	505	552	505	485	474

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2012	-
453	472	378	354	410	378			-

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

The Main Street

Population of Beaudéan

Culture and heritage

The Church of Saint Martin

Civil heritage

• A Museum in the house where Dominique Jean Larrey,, was born traces the history of military surgery.

Religious heritage

The Church of Saint Martin (15th century) is registered as an historical monument. is It is characterized by a bell tower with four corbelled turrets. The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:

• A Hilarri (18th century)
• A Retable and Tabernacle (18th century)
• 2 Candlesticks (18th century)
• The Choir enclosure (18th century)

Notable people linked to the commune

• Dominique Jean Larrey (1766-1842), a French surgeon in Napoleon's army, was born in the village.

See also

• Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department