Annois

Annois
Annois
Location within Picardy region  Annois
Coordinates: 49°43′18″N 3°10′42″E / 49.7217°N 3.1783°ECoordinates: 49°43′18″N 3°10′42″E / 49.7217°N 3.1783°E
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie
Department	Aisne
Arrondissement	Saint-Quentin
Canton	Saint-Simon
Intercommunality	Saint-Simon
Government
• Mayor (2001–2020)	Richard Telatynski
Area^1	5.9 km^2 (2.3 sq mi)
Population (2010)^2	383
• Density	65/km^2 (170/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	02019 / 02480
Elevation	63–158 m (207–518 ft) (avg. 65 m or 213 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.

Annois is a French commune in the department of Aisne in the Picardy region of northern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alnetuns or Alnetunes^[1]

Geography

Annois is located some 33 km north-west of Laon and 30 km east of Roye. It is accessed by road D937 from Cugny in the west and continuing east to Flavy-le-Martel. There is also the D32 from Saint-Simon to Flavy-le-Martel passing through the north-east of the commune. Branching from this road is the D431 which goes to the village. A railway line passes through the heart of the commune from west to east but the nearest station is the Flavy-le-Martel station outside the eastern border of the commune. The commune is mostly farmland with some forest on the northern and southern edges of the commune.^[2]

The Canal de Saint-Quentin passes just to the north of the commune and there are large ponds in the north of the commune connected to the canal. A stream flows through the length of the commune from south to north connecting to the network of ponds.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Administration

List of Mayors of Annois^[3]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2020	Richard Telatynski	DVD

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010, the commune had 383 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the town since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of municipalities 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
360	329	394	391	561	527	532	548	542

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
519	594	589	606	559	552	512	450	409

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
420	418	415	284	366	342	337	363	351

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
358	345	370	397	372	383	375	383	-

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

Notable people linked to the commune

Charles Augustus Pinguet (also called Badinguet) was born in Annois on 1 July 1826. On 1 February 1840 aged 14 he began working as a "cad" (valet service in the army^[4]) working as a painter on the maintenance of the Château de Ham. He became a friend of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte during his imprisonment there for six years. On 25 May 1846 the future Napoleon III dressed in Pinguet's clothes: blue pants, blue cloth coat, hat, and shoes. Pinguet gave him a board soiled with lime mortar and plaster. On 25 May 1846 at six in the morning, Napoleon's escape began and he was in England by the next day.

See also

• Communes of the Aisne department

External links

• Annois on the old National Geographic Institute website (French)
• Annois on Lion1906
• Annois on Google Maps
• Annois on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Annoy on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Annois on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)

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 , the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" which allow, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For municipalities with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these municipalities 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. Inhabitants of Aisne (French)
2. Google Maps
3. List of Mayors of France (French)
4. Le Petit Robert, ed. 1967 (French)