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Asnières-en-Bessin
Asnières-en-Bessin
Commune
	The Church of Saint-Vigor
	Location of Asnières-en-Bessin
	Asnières-en-Bessin Asnières-en-Bessin
	Coordinates: 49°22′07″N 0°56′13″W / 49.3686°N 0.9369°W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Bayeux
Canton	Trévières
Intercommunality	CC Isigny-Omaha Intercom
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Patrick Deshayes
Area 1	4.61 km2 (1.78 sq mi)
Population (2021)	70
• Density	15/km2 (39/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14023 /14710
Elevation	12–49 m (39–161 ft) ; (avg. 50 m or 160 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Asnières-en-Bessin (French pronunciation: [ɑnjɛʁ ɑ̃ bɛsɛ̃] ^ⓘ; literally "Asnières in Bessin") is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

Geography

Asnières-en-Bessin is located some 17 km west by north-west of Bayeux, 3 km west of Vierville-sur-Mer, and 4 km north by north-east of Longueville. Access to the commune is by the D194 road from Louvières in the east passing through the north of the commune and the village and continuing west to Cricqueville-en-Bessin. The D198 road goes south from the village through the length of the commune and continues to Aignerville. There is the hamlet of Le Temple just south of the village and Montigny in the south of the commune. The commune is entirely farmland.^[3]

The Veret river flows through the centre of the commune from east to west and continues west then north-west to the sea at the Pont du Hable.^[3]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1983	2008	Paulette Cuillandre
2008	2026	Patrick Deshayes		Farmer

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asnièrois or Asnièroises in French.^[5]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	278	—
1800	219	−3.35%
1806	227	+0.60%
1821	219	−0.24%
1831	244	+1.09%
1836	249	+0.41%
1841	219	−2.53%
1846	201	−1.70%
1851	201	+0.00%
1856	185	−1.65%
1861	191	+0.64%
1866	186	−0.53%
1872	166	−1.88%
1876	147	−2.99%
1881	141	−0.83%
1886	165	+3.19%
1891	141	−3.09%
1896	148	+0.97%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	123	−3.63%
1906	121	−0.33%
1911	139	+2.81%
1921	132	−0.52%
1926	124	−1.24%
1931	110	−2.37%
1936	121	+1.92%
1946	107	−1.22%
1954	101	−0.72%
1962	106	+0.61%
1968	91	−2.51%
1975	91	+0.00%
1982	74	−2.91%
1990	61	−2.39%
1999	55	−1.14%
2007	62	+1.51%
2012	58	−1.32%
2017	65	+2.31%

Source: EHESS^[6] and INSEE^[7]

Sites and monuments

Château of Asnières-en-Bessin, built in 1693, rebuilt in 1783.^[8]

Notable people linked to the commune

Arthur Le Duc (1848-1918), sculptor, was the Mayor of the commune from 1893 to his death in 1918.
Albert Anne (1908-1944), a member of the resistance in the Alliance network,^[9] (A resistance network in the interior of France during the Second World War) he was arrested by the Gestapo on 5 May 1944 at Asnières-en-Bessin, where he had used his skills as a forger,^[9] and he was executed at Caen jail on 6 June 1944.