Arricau-Bordes

Arricau-Bordes
Arricau-Bordes
Commune
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	Coordinates: 43°29′39″N 0°08′01″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Terres des Luys et Coteaux du Vic-Bilh
Intercommunality	Nord-Est Béarn
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Marie-Odile Rigaud
Area 1	8.10 km2 (3.13 sq mi)
Population (2021)	106
• Density	13/km2 (34/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64052 /64350
Elevation	140–299 m (459–981 ft) ; (avg. 284 m or 932 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Arricau-Bordes (French pronunciation: [aʁiko bɔʁd]; Occitan: Arricau e Bòrdas) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

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Arricau-Bordes is located some 12 km north-west of Maubourguet and some 40 km north-east of Pau. Access to the commune is by the D13 road from Cadillon in the north passing through the heart of the commune and through the village then continuing south to Lembeye. The D298 from Aurions-Idernes forms the entire eastern border of the commune as it goes south to join the D13 north of Lembaye. The D228 comes from Séméacq-Blachon in the east and passes through the south of the commune west to Gayon. About 60% of the commune is forested mostly in a north–south belt through the centre with the rest of the commune farmland.^[3]

The Lisau river flows through the heart of the commune from the Lac de Castillon just over the southern border to the Lac de Cadillon just over the northern border of the commune.^[3]

Places and Hamlets

Arricau
Les Balances
Barbé
Bordes
Le Calvaire
Carboué
Castagnat
Cazenave
Cerisère
Domengé^[4]
Hauzoué
Lahitole^[4]^[5]
Laramoune
Lecher
Marchand
Mereït
Pédéjouan
Péhat
La Riberette
Séglères
Tisné
Val Pré

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Neighbouring communes and villages

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The commune name in béarnais is Arricau-Bordas.

According to Michel Grosclaude the name Arricau was formed from two Gascon terms: arric, meaning "ravine" or "Thalweg", and cau, meaning "sunken".^[7]

Bordes comes from the Occitan borda meaning "house" or "Farm".^[8]

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

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Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Arricau	Arricau	12th century	Raymond	12	Marca	Village
	Arricau	1385	Raymond	12	Census
	Ricau	14th century	Raymond	12	Census
	Arricau-Viele	1538	Raymond	12	Reformation

Bordes	Bordas	11th century	Raymond	33	Lescar	Village
	Bordes en Vic-Bilh	1673	Raymond	33	Reformation

Domengé	L'ostau de Domenger	1385	Raymond	56	Census	Farm

Lahitole	La Fitola	1538	Raymond	89	Reformation	Hamlet
	Lahitolle	1673	Raymond	89	Reformation
	Lafitole	1863	Raymond	89
	La Fitole	1863	Raymond	89

Nouguès	Noguer	1385	Raymond	123	Census	Farm

Saint-Martin	Saint-Martin	1863	Raymond	150		Hamlet

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Sources:

Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)^[4]

Origins:

Marca: Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn.^[9]
Census: Census of Béarn^[10]
Reformation: Reformation of Béarn^[11]
Lescar: Cartulary of Lescar^[12]

Paul Raymond noted that, in 1385, Arricau and Bordes depended on the bailiwick of Lembeye and had respectively 18 and 12 fires. Arricau then had two parishes: Saint-Martin and Saint-Jacques. The fief of Bordes depended on the Viscounts of Béarn.^[4]

Arricau and Bordes were merged between 1861 and 1866.^[13]

List of Successive Mayors^[14]

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From	To	Name
1995	2008	Jean-Paul Cassou
2008	2014	Frédéric Cerisère
2014	2026	Marie-Odile Rigaud

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Inter-communality

The commune is part of four inter-communal structures:^[15]

the Communauté de communes du Nord-Est Béarn;
the AEP association of Pays de Lembeye;
the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
the irrigation association of the Lees valley;

In 2017 the commune had 108 inhabitants. The population data given in the table and graph below for 1861 and earlier refer to the former commune of Arricau.

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Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	250	—
1800	180	−4.58%
1821	263	+1.82%
1831	213	−2.09%
1836	301	+7.16%
1841	290	−0.74%
1846	269	−1.49%
1851	249	−1.53%
1856	231	−1.49%
1861	215	−1.43%
1866	326	+8.68%
1872	336	+0.50%
1876	326	−0.75%
1881	344	+1.08%
1886	338	−0.35%
1891	312	−1.59%
1896	280	−2.14%
1901	267	−0.95%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1906	226	−3.28%
1911	228	+0.18%
1921	192	−1.70%
1926	178	−1.50%
1931	178	+0.00%
1936	172	−0.68%
1946	150	−1.36%
1954	118	−2.95%
1962	139	+2.07%
1968	124	−1.89%
1975	126	+0.23%
1982	105	−2.57%
1990	102	−0.36%
1999	105	+0.32%
2007	105	+0.00%
2012	107	+0.38%
2017	108	+0.19%

Source: EHESS^[13] and INSEE^[16]

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The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zones of Madiran, Pacherenc-du-vic-bilh, and Béarn.

Civil heritage

The commune has many sites that are registered as historical monuments:

The Chateau of Arricau (1572)^[17] The Chateau contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
- An Iron Host (17th century)^[18]
- A Stoup (18th century)^[19]
- An Hilarri (16th century)^[20]
The Chateau of Bordes at Bordes (18th century)^[5]
A House at Lahitole (1777)^[5]
Houses and Farms^[21] Of the 40 buildings studied, 27 dated from before 1871.^[21]

Religious heritage

The commune has two churches that are registered as historical monuments:

The Parish Church of Saint-Jacques at Arricau (1570)^[22] was mentioned in 1570 but was destroyed two centuries later.
The Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist at Bordes (11th century)^[23] The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
- Chasuble (19th century)^[24]
- 2 Processional Lanterns (19th century)^[25]
- A Processional Cross (17th century)^[26]
- A Celebrant's Chair (18th century)^[27]
- An Altar, Altar step, and Tabernacle (18th century)^[28]

Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

[1]
"Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
[2]
"Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
[3]
Google Maps
[4]
Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
[5]
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026443 Chateau of Bordes (in French)
[6]
Géoportail, IGN (in French)
[7]
Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3 (in French)
[8]
Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (in French)
[9]
Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn
[10]
Manuscript from the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
[11]
Manuscript from the 16th to 18th centuries - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
[12]
Cartulary of the Bishop of Lescar, published in the proofs of the History of Béarn by Pierre de Marca (in French)
[13]
Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Arricau-Bordes, EHESS (in French).
[14]
List of Mayors of France (in French)
[15]
Intercommunality of Pyrénées-Atlantiques Archived 2014-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, Cellule informatique préfecture 64, consulted on 9 March 2012 (in French)
[16]
Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
[17]
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00084317 IA00026441 Chateau of Arricau(in French)
[18]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002098 Iron Host (in French)
[19]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002097 Stoup (in French)
[20]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002096 Hilarri (in French)
[21]
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00027294 Houses and Farms (in French)
[22]
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00027519 Parish Church of Saint-Jacques (in French)
[23]
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026444 Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist (in French)
[24]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002103 Chasuble (in French)
[25]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002102 2 Processional Lanterns (in French)
[26]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002101 Processional Cross (in French)
[27]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002100 Celebrant's Chair (in French)
[28]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002099 Altar, Altar step, and Tabernacle (in French)

Arricau-Bordes on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
Saint Martin d'Arricau, Saint Jacques d'Arricau, and Bordes on the 1750 Cassini Map

[1] [1]
"Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.

[popleg2021-2] [2]
"Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[Google-3] [3]
Google Maps

[Raymond-4] [4]
Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)

[Lahitole-5] [5]
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026443 Chateau of Bordes (in French)

[Géo-6] [6]
Géoportail, IGN (in French)

[Grosclaude-7] [7]
Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3 (in French)

[Jobbé-8] [8]
Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (in French)

[Marca-9] [9]
Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn

[censier-10] [10]
Manuscript from the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)

[Réformation_de_Béarn-11] [11]
Manuscript from the 16th to 18th centuries - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)

[Lescar-12] [12]
Cartulary of the Bishop of Lescar, published in the proofs of the History of Béarn by Pierre de Marca (in French)

[ehess-13] [13]
Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Arricau-Bordes, EHESS (in French).

[14] [14]
List of Mayors of France (in French)

[15] [15]
Intercommunality of Pyrénées-Atlantiques Archived 2014-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, Cellule informatique préfecture 64, consulted on 9 March 2012 (in French)

[pophist-16] [16]
Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

[17] [17]
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00084317 IA00026441 Chateau of Arricau(in French)

[18] [18]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002098 Iron Host (in French)

[19] [19]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002097 Stoup (in French)

[20] [20]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002096 Hilarri (in French)

[Farms-21] [21]
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00027294 Houses and Farms (in French)

[22] [22]
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00027519 Parish Church of Saint-Jacques (in French)

[23] [23]
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026444 Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist (in French)

[24] [24]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002103 Chasuble (in French)

[25] [25]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002102 2 Processional Lanterns (in French)

[26] [26]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002101 Processional Cross (in French)

[27] [27]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002100 Celebrant's Chair (in French)

[28] [28]
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002099 Altar, Altar step, and Tabernacle (in French)

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