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Artiguelouve
Artiguelouve
Commune
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	Coordinates: 43°19′07″N 0°28′26″W / 43.3186°N 0.4739°W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Lescar, Gave et Terres du Pont-Long
Intercommunality	CA Pau Béarn Pyrénées
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Marc Denax
Area 1	10.74 km2 (4.15 sq mi)
Population (2021)	2,005
• Density	190/km2 (480/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64060 /64230
Elevation	137–300 m (449–984 ft) ; (avg. 156 m or 512 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Artiguelouve (French pronunciation: [aʁtiɡluv]; Occitan: Artigaloba) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

Geography

Artiguelouve is located in the urban area of Pau some 8 km north-west of Pau and 3 km south-west of Lescar. Access to the commune is by road D2 from Laroin in the south-east passing through the north-east of the commune and continuing north-west to Pardies. The D509 connects the D2 to the D817 across the river. The D804 branches off the D2 in the commune and goes west along the northern fringe of the town and continues to Arbus. Access to the centre of the town is by the D146 which branches off the D804 and goes south through the town and continues to Aubertin. The residential area of the town occupies about 10% of the commune with the rest mixed forest and farmland.^[3]

Bus Route 802 from Artix to Pau of the Interurban network of Pyrénées-Atlantiques has a stop in the commune.

The Gave de Pau runs along the north-eastern border of the commune and passes through the north of the commune flowing north-west. The Juscle river flows from the south of the commune to near the town then flows north-west parallel to the Gave de Pau until it eventually joins the Gave de Pau near Tarsacq.

Places and Hamlets

Baïlot
Barat
Barrailh
Les Barthes
Bénou
Biroulet
Bordenave
Brouquisse
Castagnous
Castéra
Cinquau
Coudelounguet
Duran
Le Gras
Grassa
Guillou
Haget
Lacoste
Lacoude
Lacoustète
Lansolles
Larréheuga
Lassauque
Loumède
Loustau
Milhé
Cité des Mimosas
Mirande
Mondet
Ogeu (fountain)
Paille
Pélou
Peyreblanque
Piqueur
Pucheu
Puyade
Les Sagettes
Salaberthe
Serra
Tuquet
Turon
Le Vert Galant

Neighbouring communes and villages

Toponymy

Artiguelouve (meaning "clearing of wolves" in the béarnaise definition), comes from 'artiga which means "clearing"^[4] or "fallow land"^[5] and the oronym lob ("height").^[4]

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

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Artiguelouve	Artiguelouve	12th century	Raymond	14	Marca	Village
	Artiguelobe	1220	Raymond	14	Order of Malta
	Artigaloba	1286	Raymond	14	Titles of Fiefdom E267
	Artiguelobe	1385	Grosclaude		Census
	Artigaloba	1286	Raymond	14	Titles of Fiefdom E267
	Artigaloube	1630	Marca	450
	Artigueloube	1630	Marca	256
	Artigalouve	1750	Cassini

Ardos	Ardaos	1101	Raymond	9	Lescar	Hamlet (destroyed), Fief, vassal of the Viscounts of Béarn, belonged to the Jurors of Lescar
	Nardos	1449	Raymond	9	Cour Major
	Ardoos	1538	Raymond	9	Reformation

Sources:

Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)^[6]
Grosclaude: Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, 2006 (in French)^[5]
Marca: Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn.^[7]
Cassini: Cassini Map from 1750^[8]

Origins:

Marca: Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn.^[7]
Order of Malta: Titles of the Order of Malta^[9]
Census: Census of Béarn^[10]
Lescar: Cartulary of Lescar^[11]
Cour Major: Regulations of the Cour Major^[12]
Reformation: Reformation of Béarn^[13]

History

Paul Raymond noted on page 14 of his 1863 dictionary that, in 1385, Artiguelouve had 28 fires and depended on the bailiwick of Pau. The commune was a dependency of the Marquisate of Gassion and, with Poey, formed the jurisdiction of a notary.^[6]

Heraldry

Arms of Artiguelouve	These arms do not comply with the Rule of tincture: Or on Argent is not allowed Blazon: Quarterly, 1 and 4 Azure, a crescent of Argent between three mullets of Or; 2 Argent, two wolves of Or rampant confronting; 3 a cow of Or collared and belled the same surmounted by a crown of a Marquis the same.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[14]

From	To	Name
1995	2001	Claude Ducasse
2001	2014	Eline Gosset
2014	2026	Jean-Marc Denax

Inter-communality

The commune is part of seven inter-communal structures:

the Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées;
the SIVU for nursing home care for senior citizens in the Canton of Lescar;
the AEP association of Gave and Baise;
the association for the management of the drainage basin of the Juscle and its tributaries;
the Sanitation association for the communes of the valleys of the Juscle and the Baise;
the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
the inter-communal association for defence against flooding of the Gave de Pau;

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Artiguelouviens or Artiguelouviennes in French.^[15]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	480	—
1800	464	−0.48%
1806	427	−1.38%
1821	606	+2.36%
1831	673	+1.05%
1836	662	−0.33%
1841	674	+0.36%
1846	682	+0.24%
1851	660	−0.65%
1856	603	−1.79%
1861	590	−0.43%
1866	545	−1.57%
1872	590	+1.33%
1876	600	+0.42%
1881	577	−0.78%
1886	561	−0.56%
1891	545	−0.58%
1896	551	+0.22%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	541	−0.37%
1906	541	+0.00%
1911	493	−1.84%
1921	438	−1.18%
1926	445	+0.32%
1931	409	−1.67%
1936	386	−1.15%
1946	413	+0.68%
1954	448	+1.02%
1962	552	+2.64%
1968	549	−0.09%
1975	678	+3.06%
1982	822	+2.79%
1990	898	+1.11%
1999	1,252	+3.76%
2007	1,468	+2.01%
2012	1,595	+1.67%
2017	1,621	+0.32%

Source: EHESS^[16] and INSEE^[17]

Economy

The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zones of Jurançon AOC, Béarn AOC, and Ossau-iraty.

Culture and heritage

Religious heritage

The Church of Saint-Michel (15th century) is registered as a historical monument.^[18]

Facilities

Education

The commune has a school grouping consisting of two kindergarten classes and five primary school class (Marc Dugène School Group^[4]^[19]) as well as a library / media centre.

Sports and Sports facilities

The Artiguelouve Golf Course and also that of Billère are the two golf courses in the Pau area. La Maison des sports^[19] was opened on 29 May 2010.

Le FC3A is a football club and school for players from Artiguelouve, Arbus, and Aubertin.^[19]

Notable people linked to the commune

Paul Ducournau, born at Orthez in 1910 and died at Artiguelouve in 1985, was a general in the French Army.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Google Maps
^ ^a ^b ^c Miey de Béarn - Artiguelouve website (in French)
^ ^a ^b Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-90916-041-6 (in French)
^ ^a ^b Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
^ ^a ^b Pierre de Marca, Histoire de Bearn, La Veuve Jean Camusat, 1640, 850 pages (in French)
^ Cassini Map 1750 – Artiguelouve
^ Titles of the Order of Malta in the Departmental Archives of Haute-Garonne (in French)
^ Manuscript from the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
^ Cartulary of the Bishop of Lescar, published in the proofs of the History of Béarn by Pierre de Marca (in French)
^ Cour Majour of Béarn, register manuscripts from the 15th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
^ Manuscript from the 16th to 18th centuries - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
^ Pyrénées-Atlantiques, habitants.fr
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Artiguelouve, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000555 Church of Saint-Michel (in French)
^ ^a ^b ^c Official website of the commune