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Auge
Auge
Commune
	Entry to the village
	Coat of arms
	Location of Auge
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	Coordinates: 49°51′41″N 4°16′15″E / 49.8614°N 4.2708°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Ardennes
Arrondissement	Charleville-Mézières
Canton	Rocroi
Intercommunality	CC Ardennes Thiérache
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Yves Chevanne
Area 1	4.5 km2 (1.7 sq mi)
Population (2022)	58
• Density	13/km2 (33/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	08030 /08380
Elevation	199–262 m (653–860 ft) ; (avg. 250 m or 820 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Auge (French pronunciation: [oʒ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

Geography

Auge is located some 45 km west by north-west of Charleville-Mézières and 22 km east by south-east of Hirson. The western border of the commune is the border between the departments of Ardennes and Aisne. Access to the commune is by the European route E44 (D 8043) from Hirson which passes through the north of the commune and continues east to Maubert-Fontaine. Access to the village is by either the Grande Rue or by the Ruelle de l'Église which both branch south from the E44. Apart from a band of forest on the south-eastern border (The Bois de Moirvaux) and some patches of forest in the south-west the commune is entirely farmland.^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Toponymy

The name of the town was written Ogiae in 1112 in a privilege of Pope Paschal II to the Abbey of Saint-Nicaise in Reims and as Oggeium in a bull of Innocent II for the same monastery at Reims.^[4]

History

This site has been on an ancient road between Mézières and the North since Classical Antiquity. Gallo-Roman foundations, coins, and pieces of pottery have been found.^[5]

Heraldry

Arms of Auge	Blazon: Party per bend sinister, at 1 Azure, three mullets of Or in orle; at 2 Gules, a cock of Or.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[6]

From	To	Name
2001	2008	André Triplot
2008	current	Jean-Yves Chevanne

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 60 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	148	—
1800	147	−0.10%
1806	78	−10.02%
1821	145	+4.22%
1831	158	+0.86%
1836	160	+0.25%
1841	177	+2.04%
1846	183	+0.67%
1851	232	+4.86%
1866	189	−1.36%
1872	175	−1.27%
1876	174	−0.14%
1881	174	+0.00%
1886	177	+0.34%
1891	173	−0.46%
1896	169	−0.47%
1901	148	−2.62%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1906	142	−0.82%
1911	121	−3.15%
1921	126	+0.41%
1926	114	−1.98%
1931	105	−1.63%
1936	114	+1.66%
1946	112	−0.18%
1954	95	−2.04%
1962	95	+0.00%
1968	82	−2.42%
1975	72	−1.84%
1982	66	−1.24%
1990	69	+0.56%
1999	69	+0.00%
2007	60	−1.73%
2012	53	−2.45%
2017	60	+2.51%

Source: EHESS^[7] and INSEE^[8]

Sites and monuments

The Tombstone of Jacques de Corderand, his wife, and his son (18th century) in the Church of Saint-Gorgery is registered as an historical object.^[9]

Notable people linked to the commune

Jean-Michel Devresse, a farmer at Auge, relaunched livestock farming of Ardennes Red Turkeys (Dindon rouge des Ardennes) in 1985, so that this species would not disappear.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
^ ^a ^b Google Maps
^ Auguste Longnon, Study on the pagi of Gaul, Honoré Champion, Paris, 1977, Reprint of the Paris edition of 1869. (in French)
^ Blaise Pichon, Archaeological Map of Gaul: 02. Aisne, Volume 2, 2003, p.292 (in French)
^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Auge, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM08000032 Tombstone of Jacques de Corderand, his wife, and his son (in French)