Arget

Arget
An old farmhouse in Arget
Arget
Location within Aquitaine region  Arget
Coordinates: 43°32′38″N 0°31′38″W / 43.5439°N 0.5272°WCoordinates: 43°32′38″N 0°31′38″W / 43.5439°N 0.5272°W
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Arzacq-Arraziguet
Intercommunality	Canton d'Arzacq
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Thierry Soustra
Area^1	4.00 km^2 (1.54 sq mi)
Population (2009)^2	93
• Density	23/km^2 (60/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	64044 / 64410
Elevation	75–182 m (246–597 ft) (avg. 131 m or 430 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.

Arget is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Aquitaine region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Argétois or Argétoises.^[1]

Geography

Arget is located some 18 km north-east of Orthez and 12 km south-east of Hagetmau on the border between Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Landes departments. It can be accessed by the D264 road from Montagut in the east passing through the commune and the village (of 2 buildings) and continuing south-west to Casteide-Candau. The commune has quite large areas of forest in the west but is mostly farmland.^[2]

Several streams rise in the commune with the Hourquet forming the north-western border as it flows north-east to join the Ruisseau de la Rance at the northern tip of the commune. The Rance forms the north-eastern border as it flows north-west. The south-eastern border also consists of an unnamed stream which joins the Rance just outside the eastern tip of the commune.^[2]

Places and Hamlets^[3]

• Bayoc
• Boué^[4]
• Capère
• Carrèrot^[5]
• Castagnet
• Conte
• Cousnat
• Glaude
• Herris
• Hibet^[6]
• Hourcq^[7]
• Ménou
• Montaut
• Pourtique^[8]
• Régidou
• Séris
• Touroun^[9]
• Vignau

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Toponymy

The commune name in béarnais is Arget.

Michel Grosclaude was unable to justify the local belief that the name means "sandy place" from arena (meaning "sand") with the collective suffix -etum (giving arenetum then arenet then areet then ariet), and could not conclude other than "of uncertain origin and meaning".^[10]

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Arget	Argiet	1383	Raymond	10	Luntz	Village
	Arzet	1695	Raymond	10	Order of Malta
	Arget	1750	Cassini

Sources:

• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (French)^[11]
• Grosclaude: Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, 2006 (French)^[10]

Origins:

• Luntz:^[12]
• Order of Malta: Titles of the Order of Malta^[13]

History

Paul Raymond noted on page 10 of his 1863 dictionary that Arget depended on the Commandery of Malta of Caubin and Morlaàs and on the Barony of Moustrou, built in 1647, and was a vassal of the Viscounts of Béarn.^[11]

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors^[14]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2001	Chantal Gallenmuller
2001	2020	Thierry Soustra

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 93 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 towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
213	201	315	223	270	248	294	303	302

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
282	227	206	190	195	200	205	193	172

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
167	161	170	159	151	139	130	119	107

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	-
110	99	100	97	79	83	89	93	-

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

Culture and Heritage

Arget War Memorial

Civil heritage

Arget has many farms that are registered as historical monuments:

• A Farmhouse at Hourcq (1832)^[7]
• The Menusé farm at Pourtique (1897)^[8]
• The Lajournade farm at Pourtique (18th century)^[15]
• The Pemeste farm at Hourcq (1797)^[16]
• Houses and Farms^[17]
• A Farmhouse at Boué (1905)^[4]
• A Farmhouse at Hibet (1871)^[6]
• A Farmhouse at Carrèrot (1898)^[5]
• A Farmhouse at Touroun (18th century)^[9]

Religious heritage

The Church of Notre Dame

Main Altar

The Parish Church of Notre Dame (12th century) is registered as an historical monument.^[18] It contains several items that are registered as historical objects:

• The Furniture in the Church^[19][20]
• A Bronze Processional Cross (18th century)^[21]
• A Wooden Processional Cross (19th century)^[22]

Notable people linked to the commune

• Annie Beustes, born Annie Campagne, is a New Caledonian politician, born on 15 August 1945 in Arget.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

External links

• Arget on Lion1906
• Arget on Google Maps
• Arget on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Arget on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Arget 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" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes 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 Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
2. Google Maps
3. Géoportail, IGN (French)
4. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000066 Farmhouse at Boué (French)
5. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000063 Farmhouse at Carrèrot (French)
6. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000064 Farmhouse at Hibet (French)
7. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000061 Farmhouse at Hourcq (French)
8. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000059 Menusé farm at Pourtique (French)
9. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000060 Farmhouse at Touroun (French)
10. Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3 (French)
11. Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (French)
12. Contracts retained by Luntz, Notary of Béarn in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
13. Titles of the Order of Malta in the Departmental Archives of Haute-Garonne (French)
14. List of Mayors of France (French)
15. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000065 Lajournade farm at Pourtique (French)
16. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000062 Pemeste farm at Hourcq (French)
17. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000135 Houses and Farms (French)
18. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000001 Parish Church of Notre Dame (French)
19. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002827 Furniture in the Church (French)
20. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002780 Supplementary list of Furniture in the Church (French)
21. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002651 Bronze Processional Cross (French)
22. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002650 Wooden Processional Cross (French)