Les Authieux-Papion

Part of Mézidon Vallée d'Auge in Normandy, France

49°03′57″N 0°03′14″E / 49.0658°N 0.0539°E / 49.0658; 0.0539CountryFranceRegionNormandyDepartmentCalvadosArrondissementLisieuxCantonMézidon Vallée d'AugeCommuneMézidon Vallée d'AugeArea4.28 km² (1.65 sq mi)Population62 • Density14/km² (38/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codeElevation30–79 m (98–259 ft)
(avg. 59 m or 194 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Les Authieux-Papion (French pronunciation: [le.z‿otjø papjɔ̃] ^ⓘ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mézidon Vallée d'Auge.^[2]

Geography

Les Authieux-Papion is located some 14 km south-west of Lisieux and 11 km north-east of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives. The D47 road runs along the northern border of the commune from Mézidon-Canon in the west to join the D511 which runs down the eastern border of the commune from Saint-Julien-le-Faucon in the north-east to Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives in the south-west. Access to the village is by local roads off these two roads. There is a large forest towards the south (the Bois des Authieux) and another large forest in the north with the rest of the commune farmland.^[3]

The Viette river flows through the centre of the commune from east to west as it flows west then north to join the Vie at Le Mesnil-Mauger.^[3]

Administration

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List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name
1979	2017	Jean-Pierre Perthuis

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 63 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 222 —     1800 235 +0.82% 1806 203 −2.41% 1821 187 −0.55% 1831 178 −0.49% 1836 182 +0.45% 1841 183 +0.11% 1846 177 −0.66% 1851 161 −1.88% 1856 134 −3.60% 1861 140 +0.88% 1866 133 −1.02% 1872 130 −0.38% 1876 116 −2.81% 1881 145 +4.56% 1886 122 −3.40% 1891 117 −0.83% 1896 102 −2.71%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 95 −1.41% 1906 90 −1.08% 1911 95 +1.09% 1921 116 +2.02% 1926 110 −1.06% 1931 88 −4.36% 1936 71 −4.20% 1946 78 +0.94% 1954 116 +5.09% 1962 94 −2.59% 1968 78 −3.06% 1975 78 +0.00% 1982 61 −3.45% 1990 53 −1.74% 1999 60 +1.39% 2007 67 +1.39% 2012 70 +0.88%
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Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE[6]

Sites and monuments

In the Parish Church of Saint-Philbert there is a Statue: Virgin and child (15th century) which is registered as an historical object.^[7]

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

External links

• les Autieux Papion on the 1750 Cassini Map