Barneville-la-Bertran

Barneville-la-Bertran
Commune
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Coordinates: 49°23′21″N 0°11′19″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Honfleur-Deauville
Intercommunality	Pays de Honfleur-Beuzeville
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-François Bernard[1]
Area ^1	4.18 km^2 (1.61 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	122
• Density	29/km^2 (76/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14041 /14600
Elevation	15–127 m (49–417 ft) (avg. 40 m or 130 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Barneville-la-Bertran (before 1995: Barneville)^[3] is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.^[4]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barnevillais or Barnevillaises.^[5]

Geography

Barneville-la-Bertran is located north of the Pays d'Auge some 6 km south-west of Honfleur, 15 km south by south-east of Le Havre (across the Seine Estuary) and 10 km north-east of Deauville. Access to the commune is by the D62 from Pennedepie in the north which passes through the north of the commune and continues east to Équemauville. The D279 branches from the D288 south of the commune - just east of Deauville – Normandie Airport - and passes north through the village and joins the D62 just east of the commune. The commune is mostly farmland.^[6][7]

Toponymy

Barneville was called Barnavilla in 1062: from the Scandinavian antroponym Biarn^[8] or Barni^[9] and the Latin villa giving the meaning "rural domain". Bertran is the family name of the lords of the area in the Middle Ages.^[10]

On 6 November 1995 the commune of Barneville officially changed its name to Barneville-la-Bertran.^[11]

History

Barneville-la-Bertran appears as Barneville-la-Bertrand on the 1750 Cassini Map^[12] and as Barneville on the 1790 version.^[13]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[14]

From	To	Name
1790	1792	Léonard Joseph Chauffer de Barneville
1792	1795	François Trembley
1800	1811	Pierre Charles Coulon
1811	1830	Alexandre Naguet de Saint-Georges
1830	1840	Jean Charles Casimir Langin
1840	1846	Jean Pierre Canterel
1846	1848	Jean Jacques Lebey
1848	1849	Elie Paumier
1849	1855	Jean Jacques Lebey
1850	1883	Amand Constant Rufin
1995	2001	Jean Pierre Aubert
2001	2026[15]	Jean-François Bernard

The municipal council is made up of 11 members including the Mayor and two deputies.^[16]

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 127 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 236 —     1800 355 +6.01% 1806 432 +3.33% 1821 301 −2.38% 1831 303 +0.07% 1836 317 +0.91% 1841 319 +0.13% 1846 279 −2.64% 1851 276 −0.22% 1856 255 −1.57% 1861 235 −1.62% 1866 259 +1.96% 1872 242 −1.13% 1876 230 −1.26% 1881 194 −3.35% 1886 227 +3.19% 1891 242 +1.29% 1896 241 −0.08%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 223 −1.54% 1906 216 −0.64% 1911 203 −1.23% 1921 194 −0.45% 1926 197 +0.31% 1931 201 +0.40% 1936 187 −1.43% 1946 156 −1.80% 1954 174 +1.37% 1962 128 −3.77% 1968 150 +2.68% 1975 131 −1.92% 1982 125 −0.67% 1990 124 −0.10% 1999 138 +1.20% 2007 143 +0.45% 2012 134 −1.29% 2017 127 −1.07%
Source: EHESS[17] and INSEE[18]

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has two buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Manoir des Vallées (12th century)^[19]
• The Chateau of Barneville Park (1873)^[20]

Religious heritage

• The Church of Saint John the Baptist is flanked by a quadrangular tower and is registered as an historical monument.^[21]

Notable people linked to the commune

• Jean Doublet (1655 - 1728 at Barneville), pirate.
• Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1651 at Barneville - 1705), French writer of fairy tales.
• Françoise Sagan (1935-2004), writer, lived in the Breuil Manor before Lucien and Sacha Guitry. Died in hospital at Équemauville on 24 September 2004. Her body remained in her manor before being buried in Lot where she was born.

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Décret du 6 novembre 1995 portant changement de nom de communes, Journal officiel de la République française n° 0266, 16 November 1995, p. 16810.
4. INSEE commune file
5. Inhabitants of Calvados (in French)
6. Barneville-la-Bertran on Google Maps
7. Barneville-la-Bertran on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
8. Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963 (in French)
9. René Lepelley, Etymological Dictionary of commune names in Normandy, Éditions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau, 1996 bnf 36174448w, p. 59 (in French)
10. Community of communes of Pays de Honfleur - Barneville-la-Bertran Archived June 11, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, consulted on 20 April 2012 (in French)
11. Decree of 6 November 1995 (in French)
12. Barneville-la-Bertrand on the 1750 Cassini Map
13. Barneville on the 1790 Cassini Map
14. List of Mayors of France (in French)
15. Reelection 2014: Barneville-la-Bertran (14600) - Municipales 2014, Ouest-France, consulted on 16 June 2014 (in French)
16. art L. 2121-2 of the General Code of Collective Territories (in French).
17. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Barneville-la-Bertran, EHESS (in French).
18. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
19. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA14000015 Manoir des Vallées (in French)
20. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA14003343 Chateau of Barneville Park (in French)
21. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026704 Church of Saint John the Baptist (in French)