Les Alleux
{{Infobox French commune
|name = Les Alleux
|image = Les Alleux-08-panneau agglo-A02.jpg
|caption = The entrance to the village
|image coat of arms = Blason Les Alleux.svg
|arrondissement = Vouziers
|canton = Vouziers
|INSEE = 08007
|postal code = 08400
|commune = Bairon et ses environs
|coordinates = {{coord|49.4714|4.7389|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m = 207
|elevation min m = 133
|elevation max m = 209
|area km2 = 12.04
|population = 77
|population date = 2021
|population footnotes = {{cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/7739582/ensemble.pdf|title=Populations légales 2021|language=fr|trans-title=Legal populations 2021|publisher=INSEE|date=December 2023}}
}}
Les Alleux ({{IPA|fr|le.z‿alø}}) is a former commune in the Ardennes department in northern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Bairon et ses environs.[http://www.ardennes.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/RAA_no_72_du_07_decembre_2015_cle06d828.pdf Arrêté préfectoral] 30 November 2015 {{in lang|fr}}
Geography
Les Alleux is some {{cvt|30|km}} east of Rethel and {{cvt|10|km}} north of Vouziers. The commune can be accessed by the D977 road from Vouziers in the south passing through the commune to the east of the village and continuing to Le Chesne in the north. Access to the village is by the D23 road from Voncq in the west and continuing north to join the D977 inside the commune. Most of the east and west of the commune are forested with the central part farmland.[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Les+Alleux,+France/@49.47095,4.7506983,5922m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x47ea385838c52e03:0xce65ab7b6e8f34ce?hl=en Google Maps]
An unnamed stream rises south of the village and flows north-west to join the Ruisseau des Graquinettes just west of the commune.
=Neighbouring communes and villages=
{{Geographic location
|width=auto
|Centre = Les Alleux
|North = Le Chesne
|Northeast = Les Petites-Armoises
|East = Brieulles-sur-Bar
|Southeast = Belleville-et-Chatillon-sur-Bar
|South = Quatre-Champs
|Southwest = Vrizy
|West = Voncq
|Northwest = Neuville-Day
}}
Heraldry
{{Blazon-arms
|img1=Blason Les Alleux.svg
|legend1=Arms of Les Alleux
|text=
Blazon:
Gules, a chevron of Or accompanied in chief by two arrows of Argent in pale and in base by a crescent the same; in chief overall Azure charged with three mullets of Or.
}}
Administration
{{incomplete list|date=April 2021}}
List of Successive Mayors[http://www.francegenweb.org/mairesgenweb/resultcommune.php?id=8422 List of Mayors of France]
| class="wikitable" | ||
| From | To | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 2001 | Francis Ledig |
| 2001 | 2014 | Joël Gobert |
| 2014 | 2016 | Guillaume Queval |
Demography
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alleusiens or Alleusiennes, or alternatively Alleutiers or Alleutières in French.[https://www.habitants.fr/ardennes-08 Le nom des habitants du 08 - Ardennes], habitants.fr
{{Historical populations
| align = none
| cols = 2
| percentages = pagr
| source = EHESS{{Cassini-Ehess|476|Les Alleux}} and INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2123878?geo=COM-08007 Populations légales 2012], INSEE
|1793 |231
|1800 |315
|1806 |317
|1821 |335
|1831 |408
|1836 |437
|1841 |442
|1846 |433
|1851 |425
|1866 |407
|1872 |460
|1876 |427
|1881 |425
|1886 |417
|1891 |361
|1896 |387
|1901 |376
|1906 |334
|1911 |288
|1921 |231
|1926 |201
|1931 |214
|1936 |160
|1946 |170
|1954 |167
|1962 |166
|1968 |125
|1975 |102
|1982 |69
|1990 |72
|1999 |63
|2007 |79
|2012 |81
}}
French Decorations
- Croix de Guerre 1914-1918: 9 March 1921
Sites and Monuments
File:Les Alleux-08-mémorial-B03.jpg|The War Memorial
File:Les Alleux-08-Panneaux-A01.jpg|The crossroads of the D977 and the D23
File:Les Alleux-08-maison-B07.JPG|A house in Les Alleux
File:Les Alleux-08-mairie-B02.jpg|The Town Hall
Les Alleux-08-église-E02.jpg|The Church of Alleux
File:Les Alleux-08-église-E01.jpg|The entrance to the church
Les Alleux-08-mémorial juin 1940-M01.JPG|Memorial to June 1940
File:Les Alleux-08-mémorial juin 1940-M04.JPG|Memorial to the counter-offensive of 9–10 June 1940
File:Les Alleux-08-sépulture Rivals-S01.jpg|Tomb of the Rivals de la Salle family, owners of the Chateau of Maison-Rouge in 1853
File:Les Alleux-08-sépulture Rivals-S02.jpg|Tomb of the Rivals de la Salle family detail
File:Les Alleux-08-route Vouziers-B05.jpg|The road to Vouziers
File:Les Alleux-08-abribus-B04.jpg|The bus shleter for the Abribus
Notable people linked to the commune
- Tristan de Villelongue (1562-1631) was a doctor of theology, councillor of state and a preacher for Henry IV
See also
=External links=
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311203907/http://www.ign.fr/affiche_rubrique.asp?rbr_id=1087&CommuneId=94006 Les Alleux on the old National Geographic Institute website] {{in lang|fr}}
- [http://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/cassinige.html?lat=49.4714&lon=4.7389&zoom=13 Les Alleux on the 1750 Cassini Map]
References
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