Les Alleux

Les Alleux
Les Alleux
Part of Bairon et ses environs
	The entrance to the village
	Coat of arms
	Location of Les Alleux
	Les Alleux Location within France Les Alleux Location within Grand Est
	Coordinates: 49°28′17″N 4°44′20″E / 49.4714°N 4.7389°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Ardennes
Arrondissement	Vouziers
Canton	Vouziers
Commune	Bairon et ses environs
Area 1	12.04 km2 (4.65 sq mi)
Population (2021)	77
• Density	6.4/km2 (17/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	08400
Elevation	133–209 m (436–686 ft) ; (avg. 207 m or 679 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Les Alleux (French pronunciation: [lez‿alø] ^ⓘ) is a former commune in the Ardennes department in northern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Bairon et ses environs.^[2]

Geography

Les Alleux is some 30 km (19 mi) east of Rethel and 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Vouziers. The commune can be accessed by the D977 road from Vouziers in the south passing through the commune to the east of the village and continuing to Le Chesne in the north. Access to the village is by the D23 road from Voncq in the west and continuing north to join the D977 inside the commune. Most of the east and west of the commune are forested with the central part farmland.^[3]

An unnamed stream rises south of the village and flows north-west to join the Ruisseau des Graquinettes just west of the commune.^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

Source:^[3]

Heraldry

Arms of Les Alleux	Blazon: Gules, a chevron of Or accompanied in chief by two arrows of Argent in pale and in base by a crescent the same; in chief overall Azure charged with three mullets of Or.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name
1995	2001	Francis Ledig
2001	2014	Joël Gobert
2014	2016	Guillaume Queval

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alleusiens or Alleusiennes, or alternatively Alleutiers or Alleutières in French.^[5]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	231	—
1800	315	+4.53%
1806	317	+0.11%
1821	335	+0.37%
1831	408	+1.99%
1836	437	+1.38%
1841	442	+0.23%
1846	433	−0.41%
1851	425	−0.37%
1866	407	−0.29%
1872	460	+2.06%
1876	427	−1.84%
1881	425	−0.09%
1886	417	−0.38%
1891	361	−2.84%
1896	387	+1.40%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	376	−0.58%
1906	334	−2.34%
1911	288	−2.92%
1921	231	−2.18%
1926	201	−2.74%
1931	214	+1.26%
1936	160	−5.65%
1946	170	+0.61%
1954	167	−0.22%
1962	166	−0.08%
1968	125	−4.62%
1975	102	−2.86%
1982	69	−5.43%
1990	72	+0.53%
1999	63	−1.47%
2021	77	+0.92%

Source: EHESS^[6] and INSEE^[1]

French Decorations

Croix de Guerre 1914-1918: 9 March 1921

Sites and Monuments

The War Memorial
The crossroads of the D977 and the D23
A house in Les Alleux
The Town Hall
The Church of Alleux
The entrance to the church
Memorial to June 1940
Memorial to the counter-offensive of 9–10 June 1940
Tomb of the Rivals de la Salle family, owners of the Chateau of Maison-Rouge in 1853
Tomb of the Rivals de la Salle family detail
The road to Vouziers
The bus shleter for the Abribus