Fontvieille, Bouches-du-Rhône

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Fontvieille
Commune
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Alphonse Daudet's windmill
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Location of Fontvieille
Fontvieille, Bouches-du-Rhone
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Fontvieille
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Fontvieille
Coordinates: 43°43′40″N4°42′35″E / 43.7278°N 4.7097°E / 43.7278; 4.7097
Country France
Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement Arles
Canton Salon-de-Provence-1
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Gérard Garnier [1]
Area
1
40.18 km2 (15.51 sq mi)
Population
 (2021) [2]
3,521
 • Density88/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
13038 /13990
Elevation0–245 m (0–804 ft)
(avg. 20 m or 66 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Fontvieille (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃vjɛj] ; Occitan : Fòntvielha) is a commune in the camargue region in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France.

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History

The commune was created in 1790, out of the territory of Arles.

The Occitan language poet Brémonde de Tarascon (1858–98) grew up on the Darbousille farm at Fontvieille, where she died. [3]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 1,613—    
1800 1,900+2.37%
1806 1,728−1.57%
1821 2,044+1.13%
1831 2,056+0.06%
1836 2,165+1.04%
1841 2,142−0.21%
1846 2,402+2.32%
1851 2,492+0.74%
1856 2,479−0.10%
1861 2,788+2.38%
1866 3,248+3.10%
1872 2,566−3.85%
1876 2,565−0.01%
1881 2,596+0.24%
1886 2,840+1.81%
1891 2,591−1.82%
1896 2,541−0.39%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 2,515−0.21%
1906 2,252−2.18%
1911 2,104−1.35%
1921 2,027−0.37%
1926 2,057+0.29%
1931 2,079+0.21%
1936 2,079+0.00%
1946 2,064−0.07%
1954 2,244+1.05%
1962 2,388+0.78%
1968 2,440+0.36%
1975 2,935+2.67%
1982 3,374+2.01%
1990 3,642+0.96%
1999 3,431−0.66%
2007 3,472+0.15%
2012 3,653+1.02%
2017 3,591−0.34%
Source: EHESS [4] and INSEE (1968-2017) [5]

Sights

Twin towns

Fontvieille is twinned with Santa Maria a Monte, Italy, since 1991.

See also

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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". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Brémonde de Tarascon (1858-1898), poétesse provençale", GénéProvence (in French), 10 December 2008, retrieved 13 November 2017
  4. ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Fontvieille, EHESS (in French).
  5. ↑ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE


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