Alboussière

Alboussière (French pronunciation: [albusjɛʁ]; Occitan: Albossèira) is a commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southern France.

Alboussière Albossèira (Occitan)
Commune
Alboussière Town Hall
Coat of arms
Location of Alboussière
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Coordinates: 44°56′42″N 4°43′46″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Tournon-sur-Rhône
Canton	Haut-Vivarais
Intercommunality	Rhône-Crussol
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Michel Mizzi[1]
Area 1	18.39 km2 (7.10 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	1,026
• Density	56/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	07007 /07440
Elevation	234–774 m (768–2,539 ft) (avg. 548 m or 1,798 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Alboussière is located some 10 km west of Valence and 10 km east of Lamastre. It can be accessed by the winding D533 road from Valence which passes through the village and continues west to Saint-Barthélemy-Grozon. The D14 road from Vernoux-en-Vivarais in the south also passes through the commune to join the D533 just north of the commune. The commune is also covered with a network of small roads. There are nine other hamlets in the commune other than the village. These are: Aubert, Blanc, Les Chatanelles, La Chalaye, Bleizac, Le Mas, Le Vivier, Ponsoye, and Fialaix.^[3]

There are numerous streams throughout the commune. The Ruisseau de Jergne forms most of the southern border and the Duzon forms much of the eastern boundary with large numbers of unnamed streams joining them.^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Heraldry

Arms of Alboussière

Blazon: Party per pale, Azure a ram rampant Argent and barry of six Or and Vert.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name	Party
2001	2014	Jacques Dubay	UDI
2014	2020	Philippe Ponton	DVD
2020	Current	Michel Mizzi

Demographics

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	700	—
1975	696	−0.08%
1982	605	−1.98%
1990	727	+2.32%
1999	756	+0.44%
2009	925	+2.04%
2014	1,059	+2.74%
2020	998	−0.98%
Source: INSEE[5]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alboussiérois (masculine) and Alboussiéroises (feminine) in French.^[6]

Distribution of age groups

The age distribution of the population of the commune is similar to that of the department.

Percentage distribution of age groups in Alboussière and the Ardèche department in 2017

	Alboussière		Ardèche
Age range	Men	Women	Men	Women
0 to 14 years	23.2	20.2	17.7	16.1
15 to 29 years	10.4	10.0	14.4	13.0
30 to 44 years	19.6	17.5	17.3	16.9
45 to 59 years	20.5	18.5	21.6	20.7
60 to 74 years	17.8	16.0	19.7	19.7
75 to 89 years	7.9	13.3	8.5	11.2
90 years+	0.6	4.3	0.9	2.4

Source: INSEE^[7][8]

Sites and monuments

• The Château de Crozat was enlarged in the 17th century then transformed by the architect Louis Achille Tracol in the 19th century.
• The Chapel of Saint-Didier-de-Crussol
• The Church of Saint-André-de-Crussol contains a statue: Saint-Evêque (19th century) which is registered as an historical object.^[9]
• The artificial lake

• 
  The Château de Crozat
• 
  Modern village church
• 
  The Artificial lake at Alboussière
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  The Artificial lake at Alboussière

Notable people linked to the commune

• Louis-Balthazard du Bay was born in the castle on 3 November 1775. He was, among others, Lord of Cros, Baron of Boffre, Mayor of Saint-Péray, and a member of the electoral college of the department of Ardèche.^[10]

See also

• Communes of the Ardèche department