Auge () is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

Geography Auge is located some 45 km west by north-west of Charleville-Mézières and 22 km east by south-east of Hirson. The western border of the commune is the border between the departments of Ardennes and Aisne. Access to the commune is by the European route E44 (D 8043) from Hirson which passes through the north of the commune and continues east to Maubert-Fontaine. Access to the village is by either the Grande Rue or by the Ruelle de l'Église which both branch south from the E44. Apart from a band of forest on the south-eastern border (The Bois de Moirvaux) and some patches of forest in the south-west the commune is entirely farmland.Google Maps

Neighbouring communes and villages

Toponymy The name of the town was written Ogiae in 1112 in a privilege of Pope Paschal II to the Abbey of Saint-Nicaise in Reims and as Oggeium in a bull of Innocent II for the same monastery at Reims.Auguste Longnon, Study on the pagi of Gaul, Honoré Champion, Paris, 1977, Reprint of the Paris edition of 1869.

History This site has been on an ancient road between Mézières and the North since Classical Antiquity. Gallo-Roman foundations, coins, and pieces of pottery have been found.Blaise Pichon, Archaeological Map of Gaul: 02. Aisne, Volume 2, 2003, p.292

Heraldry

Administration

List of Successive MayorsList of Mayors of France From To Name 2001 2008 André Triplot 2008 current Jean-Yves Chevanne

Demography

Sites and monuments The Tombstone of Jacques de Corderand, his wife, and his son (18th century) in the Church of Saint-Gorgery is registered as an historical object.Ministry of Culture, Palissy

Notable people linked to the commune

Jean-Michel Devresse, a farmer at Auge, relaunched livestock farming of Ardennes Red Turkeys (Dindon rouge des Ardennes) in 1985, so that this species would not disappear.

See also Communes of the Ardennes department

References

External links Auge on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website Auge on the 1750 Cassini Map