Alboussière

Alboussière
The Town Hall
Coat of arms
Location of Alboussière
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Tournon-sur-Rhône
Canton	Saint-Péray
Intercommunality	Rhône-Crussol
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Philippe Ponton
Area 1	18.39 km2 (7.10 sq mi)
Population  (2010)	938
• Density	51/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	07007 /07440
Elevation	234–774 m (768–2,539 ft) (avg. 548 m or 1,798 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Alboussière is a French commune in the Ardèche department in the Rhône-Alpes region of southern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alboussiérois or Alboussiéroises

Geography

Alboussière is located some 10 km west of Valence and 10 km east of Lamastre. It can be accessed by the winding D533 road from Valence which passes through the village and continues west to Saint-Barthélemy-Grozon. The D14 road from Vernoux-en-Vivarais in the south also passes through the commune to join the D533 just north of the commune. The commune is also covered with a network of small roads. There are nine other hamlets in the commune other than the village. These are: Aubert, Blanc, Les Chatanelles, La Chalaye, Bleizac, Le Mas, Le Vivier, Ponsoye, and Fialaix.

There are numerous streams throughout the commune. The Ruisseau de Jergne forms most of the southern border and the Duzon forms much of the eastern boundary with large numbers of unnamed streams joining them.

Heraldry

Arms of Alboussière

Blazon: Party per pale, Azure a ram rampant Argent and barry of six Or and Vert.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2014	Jacques Dubay	UDI
2014	2020	Philippe Ponton

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 938 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through 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.

Distribution of Age Groups

The population of the town is relatively old. The rate of people above the age of 60 years (26.9%) is higher than the national rate (21.8%) while being close to the departmental rate (27.1%). As for the national and departmental ratio of sexes, the female population of the commune is higher than the male population. Rate (51.7%) is of the same order of magnitude as the national rate (51.9%).

Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Alboussière and Ardèche Department in 2009

	Alboussière	Alboussière	Ardèche	Ardèche
Age Range	Men	Women	Men	Women
0 to 14 Years	21.9	20.3	18.7	16.9
15 to 29 Years	14.9	13.0	15.4	14.0
30 to 44 Years	21.7	19.2	19.9	18.9
45 to 59 Years	18.3	17.1	21.5	20.6
60 to 74 Years	14.4	13.6	16.1	16.4
75 to 89 Years	7.5	14.0	8.0	11.7
90 Years+	1.3	2.7	0.4	1.5

Sources:

• Evolution and Structure of the population of the Commune in 2009, INSEE.
• Evolution and Structure of the population of the Department in 2009, INSEE.

Sites and Monuments

• The Chateau Crozat was enlarged in the 17th century then transformed by the architect Louis Achille Tracol in the 19th century.
• The Chapel of St-Didier-de-Crussol
• The Church of Saint-André-de-Crussol contains a Statue: Saint-Evêque (19th century) which is registered as an historical object.
• The Artificial lake

• 
  The Chateau Crozet
• 
  Modern village church
• 
  The Artificial lake at Alboussière
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  The Artificial lake at Alboussière

Notable people linked to the commune

• Edmond Ponsoye, pastor and historian, from a very old family who owned the hamlet of Ponsoye Alboussiere.
• Gerard Miller, psychoanalyst and member of the Ruquier Band, rented with his brother Stéphane a snack-bar at the edge of the Alboussière lake in the summer of 2011.
• Louis-Balthazard du Bay was born in the castle on 3 November 1775. He was, among others, Lord of Cros, Baron of Boffre, Mayor of Saint-Péray, and a member of the electoral college of the department of Ardèche.

See also

• Communes of the Ardèche department
• Cantons of the Ardèche department
• Arrondissements of the Ardèche department

External links

• Alboussière on the old National Geographic Institute website Template:Fr icon
• Alboussière on Lion1906
• Alboussière on Google Maps
• Alboussière on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website Template:Fr icon
• Alboigßiers on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Alboussière on the INSEE website Template:Fr icon
• INSEE Template:Fr icon