Bard-lès-Époisses

Bard-lès-Époisses
Bard-lès-Époisses
Location within Burgundy region Bard-lès-Époisses
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Montbard
Canton	Semur-en-Auxois
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Jean-Michel Massé
Area1	3.54 km2 (1.37 sq mi)
Population (2010)2	54
• Density	15/km2 (40/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	21047 / 21460
Elevation	228–365 m (748–1,198 ft) (avg. 247 m or 810 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.

Bard-lès-Époisses is a French commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barrois or Barroises.

Geography

Bard-lès-Époisses is located some 14 km south-west of Montbard and 5 km north-east of Époisses. Access to the commune is by the D4 road from Athie in the north-east which passes through the heart of the commune and the village and continues south-west to Corrombles. The D4H comes from Corsaint in the west and passes through the length of the commune, intersecting the D4 in the village, and continues east to join the D4M south-west of Jeux-lès-Bard. Apart from some forest in the north the commune is almost entirely farmland.

The Ru d'Acier stream flows through the east of the commune from south-west to north-east and continues to join the Ruisseau de la Prée north-east of Jeux-lès-Bard.

Mapping

A list of online mapping systems can be displayed by clicking on the coordinates (latitude and longitude) in the top right hand corner of this article. None of these maps, however, show the extent of nor any information on the commune.

History

For many centuries the commune was called Bar.

Bar was an annex of Torcy with its patron Saint Matthew. Attached to the diocese of Langres, the parish had 3 parts: Bar, Jeux (formerly Jox and Jovum), and a portion of Corrombles called the Rue de Bar. The parish had 300 communicants. The Lord was the bishop of Langres then the abbot of Moutiers-Saint-Jean to whom the church was given in 1141. The Town Hall fief was given to Charles Lanneau de Marey, Knight of Saint Louis. Among the older families there are the Drouhin. P. Drouhin was Châtelain of Vieux-Château in 1409.

Bard-lès-Époisses appears as Bard on the 1750 Cassini Map and the same on the 1790 version.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2020	Jean Michel Massé

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 54 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
538	240	243	200	200	214	189	190	188

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
170	184	169	155	149	145	138	142	136

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
142	112	123	105	97	101	93	82	96

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
91	95	90	72	66	67	75	54	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

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Population of Bard-lès-Époisses

Economy

The hill slopes were covered with vines in the early 20th century but the rural exodus and the consequent reduction in population led the remaining farmers to focus their activity on livestock grazing and mixed farming in the plains, leaving the hills area mostly fallow.

Notable people linked to the commune

• Étienne Bouhot (8 August 1780 – 17 July 1862), painter, was born in the commune.
• Victor de Lanneau (25 December 1758 – 1830), defrocked priest and teacher, was born in the commune.

See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department