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Asnières-en-Bessin

Field	Value
name	Asnières-en-Bessin
commune status	Commune
image	FranceNormandieAsnieresEnBessinEglise.jpg
caption	The Church of Saint-Vigor
arrondissement	Bayeux
canton	Trévières
INSEE	14023
postal code	14710
mayor	Patrick Deshayes
term	2020–2026
intercommunality	CC Isigny-Omaha Intercom
coordinates
elevation m	50
elevation min m	12
elevation max m	49
area km2	4.61
population
population date
population footnotes

Asnières-en-Bessin (; literally "Asnières in Bessin") is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

Geography

Asnières-en-Bessin is located some 17 km west by north-west of Bayeux, 3 km west of Vierville-sur-Mer, and 4 km north by north-east of Longueville. Access to the commune is by the D194 road from Louvières in the east passing through the north of the commune and the village and continuing west to Cricqueville-en-Bessin. The D198 road goes south from the village through the length of the commune and continues to Aignerville. There is the hamlet of Le Temple just south of the village and Montigny in the south of the commune. The commune is entirely farmland.

The Veret river flows through the centre of the commune from east to west and continues west then north-west to the sea at the Pont du Hable.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1983	2008	Paulette Cuillandre
2008	2026	Patrick Deshayes		Farmer

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asnièrois or Asnièroises in French.

|1793 |278 |1800 |219 |1806 |227 |1821 |219 |1831 |244 |1836 |249 |1841 |219 |1846 |201 |1851 |201 |1856 |185 |1861 |191 |1866 |186 |1872 |166 |1876 |147 |1881 |141 |1886 |165 |1891 |141 |1896 |148 |1901 |123 |1906 |121 |1911 |139 |1921 |132 |1926 |124 |1931 |110 |1936 |121 |1946 |107 |1954 |101 |1962 |106 |1968 |91 |1975 |91 |1982 |74 |1990 |61 |1999 |55 |2007 |62 |2012 |58 |2017 |65

Sites and monuments

Château of Asnières-en-Bessin, built in 1693, rebuilt in 1783.[[File:Logo monument historique - rouge sans texte.svg|18px]]

Notable people linked to the commune

Arthur Le Duc (1848-1918), sculptor, was the Mayor of the commune from 1893 to his death in 1918.
Albert Anne (1908-1944), a member of the resistance in the Alliance network, (A resistance network in the interior of France during the Second World War) he was arrested by the Gestapo on 5 May 1944 at Asnières-en-Bessin, where he had used his skills as a forger, and he was executed at Caen jail on 6 June 1944.

References

(13 September 2022). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises.
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Asni%C3%A8res-en-Bessin/@49.3568171,-0.9180595,5949m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x480ba7621c0cb843:0x40c14484fbcfce0?hl=en Google Maps]
[http://www.francegenweb.org/mairesgenweb/chercher.php List of Mayors of France] {{in lang. fr
[https://www.habitants.fr/calvados-14 Le nom des habitants du 14 - Calvados], habitants.fr
{{Cassini-Ehess. 1487. Asnières-en-Bessin
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-14023#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée {{Mérimée. PA00111016. PA00111016 Château of Asnières-en-Bessin {{in lang. fr
[http://6juinomahabeach.free.fr/4_texte/44_arrestations.php ''Omaha Beach Memories - the arrests of 1944''], consulted on 30 April 2013 {{in lang. fr

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