Beaudéan

Beaudéan
Commune
Beaudéan and the church of Saint-Martin
Coat of arms
Location of Beaudéan
Beaudéan Beaudéan
Coordinates: 43°01′45″N 0°10′10″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Canton	La Haute-Bigorre
Intercommunality	Haute-Bigorre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Yves Laffaille
Area 1	16.7 km2 (6.4 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	401
• Density	24/km2 (62/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	65078 /65710
Elevation	611–2,262 m (2,005–7,421 ft) (avg. 650 m or 2,130 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Beaudéan (French pronunciation: [bodeɑ̃]; Occitan: Beudian) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Beaudéannais or Beaudéannaises.

Geography

The Lavoir (Public laundry)

Beaudean is located at the mouth of the Lesponne valley and the Campan valley in the inter-communal cooperative of Haute-Bigorre some 20 km south by south-east of Tarbes and 5 km south of Bagnères-de-Bigorre. Access to the commune is by the D935 road from Pouzac in the north which passes through the eastern tip of the commune and the village and continues south-east to Campan. The D29 branches off the D935 in the commune and goes along the length of the commune south-west to end in Chiroulet. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of Serris. The commune is mixed forest and farmland in the north and rugged forested mountains in the south.

The Adour river forms the north-eastern border of the commune as it flows north-west eventually joining the Atlantic Ocean at Boucau. The Adour de Lesponne flows from the south-west of the commune, forming much of the western border as it flows north-east, gathering tributaries such as the Ruisseau du Brouilh (which forms the southern border of the commune), the Ruisseau de Narbios, the Hourquet, and the Ruisseau de Hount Hérède, to join the Adour at the eastern corner of the commune. The Serris river flows north-east through the commune and the village to join the Adour. The Ruisseau de Binaros forms most of the eastern border of the commune as it flows north to join the Adour de Lesponne in the narrow "neck" of the commune.

Toponymy

Historical names:

• In Beldeyano, Latin (c. 1090, Larcher, Cartulary of Saint-Pé).
• Arnaldus de Beudean, Latin and Gascon (1283, Procès Bigorre).
• Beudeaa, (1285, Montre Bigorre).
• apud Beudeanum, Latin (1300, Enquête Bigorre).
• De Baudeano, Latin (1313 Debita regi Navarre; 1342, Pouillé of Tarbes).
• de Veudeano, Latin (1379 Procuration of Tarbes).
• Beudean (1429, Censier of Bigorre).
• Baudean, (1760, Larcher, Pouillé of Tarbes).

Beaudéan appears as Beaudean on the 1750 Cassini Map and the same on the 1790 version.

Beaudéan comes from the name of a domain. The Germanic personal name Bald-win (Latinised as Baldinus) with the suffix -anum.

Heraldry

Arms of Beaudéan

Blazon: Quarterly, 1 and 3 Or, a fir tree Vert; 2 and 4 Argent, a helm Gules in profile sinister between 2 bears standing and confronting of Sable.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party
1989	2020	Jacques Brune	PRG
2020	2026	Yves Laffaille

Judicial and administrative proceedings

Beaudéan falls within the area of the Tribunal d'instance (District court) of Tarbes, the Tribunal de grande instance (High Court) of Tarbes, the Cour d'appel Court of Appeal of Pau, the Tribunal pour enfants (Juvenile court) of Tarbes, the Conseil de prud'hommes (Labour Court) of Tarbes, the Tribunal de commerce (Commercial Court) of Tarbes, the Tribunal administratif (Administrative tribunal) of Pau, and the Cour administrative d'appel (Administrative Court of Appeal) of Bordeaux

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 395 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 723 —     1800 713 −0.20% 1806 810 +2.15% 1821 763 −0.40% 1831 865 +1.26% 1836 972 +2.36% 1841 1,000 +0.57% 1846 998 −0.04% 1851 976 −0.44% 1856 894 −1.74% 1861 875 −0.43% 1866 895 +0.45% 1872 894 −0.02% 1876 853 −1.17% 1881 780 −1.77% 1886 766 −0.36% 1891 703 −1.70% 1896 731 +0.78%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 728 −0.08% 1906 688 −1.12% 1911 634 −1.62% 1921 524 −1.89% 1926 505 −0.74% 1931 552 +1.80% 1936 505 −1.76% 1946 485 −0.40% 1954 474 −0.29% 1962 453 −0.56% 1968 472 +0.69% 1975 378 −3.12% 1982 354 −0.93% 1990 410 +1.85% 1999 378 −0.90% 2007 391 +0.42% 2012 391 +0.00% 2017 395 +0.20%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

The main street

Culture and heritage

The Church of Saint Martin

Civil heritage

• A Museum in the house where Dominique Jean Larrey, was born traces the history of military surgery.

Religious heritage

The Church of Saint Martin (15th century) is registered as an historical monument. is It is characterized by a bell tower with four corbelled turrets. The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:

• A Hilarri (18th century)
• A Retable and Tabernacle (18th century)
• 2 Candlesticks (18th century)
• The Choir enclosure (18th century)

Notable people linked to the commune

• Dominique Jean Larrey (1766-1842), a French surgeon in Napoleon's army, was born in the village.

See also

• Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department