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Balnot-la-Grange
Balnot-la-Grange
Commune
	Location of Balnot-la-Grange
	Balnot-la-Grange Balnot-la-Grange
	Coordinates: 47°59′12″N 4°11′54″E / 47.9867°N 4.1983°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Aube
Arrondissement	Troyes
Canton	Les Riceys
Intercommunality	CC du Chaourçois et du Val d'Armance
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Patrice Nosley
Area 1	20.11 km2 (7.76 sq mi)
Population (2021)	115
• Density	5.7/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	10028 /10210
Elevation	315 m (1,033 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Balnot-la-Grange (French pronunciation: [ba(l)no la ɡʁɑ̃ʒ]) is a commune in the Aube department in the Grand Est region of north-central France.

Geography

Balnot-la-Grange is located some 35 km south by south-east of Troyes and 22 km north-east of Tonnerre. Part of the southern border is the departmental border between Aube and Yonne. Access to the commune is by road D84 from Chesley in the west which passes through the village and continues north-east to Arrelles. The D34 from Maisons-lès-Chaource to Villiers-le-Bois passes through the west of the commune. The D125 comes from Bragelogne-Beauvoir in the south-east and passes through the village continuing north-west to join the D34 in the commune. The D17 from Pargues to Bagneux-la-Fosse passes through the north-eastern corner of the commune. The commune is mostly farmland with some forests west of the village.^[3]

The Marve river flows through the commune and the village from the south and continues north until it joins the Hozain near La Chapelle-d'Oze.^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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History

In Gallo-Roman times three Roman roads left from Vertault (Vertillum, an important centre south of Côte-d'Or) towards the north. One of these ways passed through Chaource via Balnot-la-Grange.

Until the 16th century Balnot had only a barn - i.e., a farm belonging to the Abbey of Quincy. When the Abbey could not reclaim this ruined barn, it decided to break up the land and, according to an agreement in 1518, made a gift to every person wishing to settle there. The donation consisted of an arpent to build a house and outbuildings through a censive for the dwelling, a royalty for the fireplace, and the right to cultivate the land. New residents received the right to use the woods and a pond belonging to the abbey and, in addition, to earn release from serfdom. It was stipulated that the people could not assemble without the authorization of the abbot.

In 1775 the French economist Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours recommended three levels of assembly:

the municipalities of the parish;
the municipalities of the arrondissement or election of the district;
the municipalities of the province.

The Royal settlement of 23 June 1787 required that each election be divided into six electoral arrondissements. That law was randomly applied and so the election of Bar-sur-Aube was divided into twelve arrondissements including that of Balnot-la-Grange. Its existence was brief as it served as an electoral boundary for only one vote.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name
	1857	Morel
2001	2008	Serge Hugerot
2008	2026	Patrice Nosley

Demography

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

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	478	—
1800	504	+0.76%
1806	444	−2.09%
1821	451	+0.10%
1831	506	+1.16%
1836	452	−2.23%
1841	403	−2.27%
1846	386	−0.86%
1851	442	+2.75%
1856	398	−2.08%
1861	381	−0.87%
1866	392	+0.57%
1872	364	−1.23%
1876	348	−1.12%
1881	321	−1.60%
1886	323	+0.12%
1891	312	−0.69%
1896	296	−1.05%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	278	−1.25%
1906	271	−0.51%
1911	243	−2.16%
1921	228	−0.64%
1926	250	+1.86%
1931	248	−0.16%
1936	236	−0.99%
1946	228	−0.34%
1954	230	+0.11%
1962	221	−0.50%
1968	224	+0.22%
1975	191	−2.25%
1982	181	−0.77%
1990	184	+0.21%
1999	158	−1.68%
2007	154	−0.32%
2012	125	−4.09%
2017	120	−0.81%