Adast

Adast
Coat of arms of Adast Coat of arms
Adast
Location within Midi-Pyrénées region Adast
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Argelès-Gazost
Canton	Argelès-Gazost
Intercommunality	Vallée de Saint-Savin
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Bernard Marquis
Area1	1.05 km2 (0.41 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	253
• Density	240/km2 (620/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	65001 / 65260
Elevation	434–542 m (1,424–1,778 ft) (avg. 444 m or 1,457 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Adast is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in southwestern France. It is in Sent Savin valley in the Bigorre region.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	146	—
1968	174	+19.2%
1975	200	+14.9%
1982	205	+2.5%
1990	203	−1.0%
1999	227	+11.8%
2007	252	+11.0%
2009	253	+0.4%

Sites and monuments

In 1270, the Château de Miramont was bequeathed after the death of Mathe de Bigorre-Mâtas to one of his daughters, Marguerite.

In the 17th Century, it became the refuge of the poet Cyprian Despourrins whose mother was Gabrielle de Miramont. The castle was then bought by Bernard Abadie-Gaye, an inhabitant of Sazos (near Luz-Saint-Sauveur). It was then sold by a descendant of this family, Célestin Carrere, son of Louise Abadie-Gaye, in 1914.

The château was later inhabited by Dr. Jean François Calot (1861-1944), a surgeon who advanced orthopaedic surgery preferring conservative treatments to the systematic amputations. He spent his entire career from 1890 at Berck and he retired to the Château de Miramont.

At the end of the 1960s, the Château de Miramont was bought by the journalist, radio and television host Jacques Chancel, who came from the nearby village of Ayzac-Ost.

See also

• Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department

References

• INSEE