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Les Ayvelles

Field	Value
name	Les Ayvelles
commune status	Commune
image	Fort des Ayvelles 01.JPG
caption	The Fort of Ayvelles
image coat of arms	Blason Les Ayvelles.svg
arrondissement	Charleville-Mézières
canton	Nouvion-sur-Meuse
INSEE	08040
postal code	08000
mayor	Sylvia Tucci
term	2023–2026
intercommunality	CA Ardenne Métropole
coordinates
elevation m	155
elevation min m	143
elevation max m	210
area km2	5.45
population
population date
population footnotes

|image coat of arms = Blason Les Ayvelles.svg

Les Ayvelles () is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France.

Geography

Les Ayvelles is located just 5 km south-east of Charleville-Mézières. Access to the commune is by road D764 from Villers-Semeuse in the north which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues to Flize in the south. The commune has large reservoirs in the east and a forest in the west (the Bois des Ayvelles) with the rest of the commune farmland.

The Meuse river forms the eastern border of the commune as it flows north to Belgium. The Ruisseau du Pierge rises in the west of the commune and flows east to join the Meuse.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Source:

Heraldry

Blazon:

Argent, a saltire Gules cantoned with, in chief and in base a lion Sable tongued and armed Gules, to dexter and sinister a mullet Sable pierced.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name
1995	2008	Robert Binet
2008	2014	Jacques Bragantini
2014	current	Philippe Lebreton

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known both as Ayvelliens or Ayvelliennes as well as Ayvellois or Ayvelloises in French.

|1793 |120 |1800 |112 |1806 |141 |1821 |190 |1831 |315 |1836 |335 |1841 |335 |1846 |357 |1851 |349 |1866 |334 |1872 |342 |1876 |334 |1881 |370 |1886 |376 |1891 |449 |1896 |451 |1901 |447 |1906 |463 |1911 |542 |1921 |308 |1926 |349 |1931 |351 |1936 |340 |1946 |343 |1954 |393 |1962 |410 |1968 |418 |1975 |511 |1982 |603 |1990 |816 |1999 |769 |2007 |889 |2012 |975 |2017 |897

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The Fort and Battery of Ayvelles. The Fort can be visited by appointment.

Religious heritage

The Parish Church of Saint Rémi contains several items that are registered as historical objects:

The Tombstone of Priest Ponce Guérin (1690)
A Baptismal font (12th century)
A Chalice with Paten (1750 and 1752)

References

(6 June 2023). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises.
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Les+Ayvelles,+France/@49.7194263,4.7592241,2947m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x47ea124e01c28b21:0x40a5fb99a3f7e30?hl=en Google Maps]
fr
[https://www.habitants.fr/ardennes-08 Le nom des habitants du 08 - Ardennes], habitants.fr
{{Cassini-Ehess. 2269. Les Ayvelles
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-08040#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
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Ministry of Culture, Palissy {{Palissy. PM08000041. PM08000041 Baptismal font {{in lang. fr{{Camera
Ministry of Culture, Palissy {{Palissy. PM08000675. PM08000675 Chalice with Paten {{in lang. fr{{Camera

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