La Bastide-de-Bousignac (; ) is a commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.INSEE commune file
Geography La Bastide-de-Bousignac is located just 3 km south of Mirepoix and 2 km north of Saint-Quentin-la-Tour. Access to the commune is by the D625 road from Mirepoix which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues south to Saint-Quentin-la-Tour. The D7 goes east from the village to Lagarde. The D7A goes south-west from the village to Saint-Julien-de-Gras-Capou. The D78 comes from Saint-Julien-de-Gras-Capou in the south and passes north through the western arm of the commune continuing to join the D13 south of Besset. The commune is mixed farmland and forest.
The Countirou river flows from the south through the centre of the commune and the village and continues north to join the Hers at Mirepoix. The Ruisseau de Gradal rises in the east of the commune and flows west to join the Countirou north of the village. The Ruisseau de Mazeroles flows through the western arm of the commune from south to north continuing north to join the Hers at Besset.
History La Bastide-de-Bousignac appears as la Baftide de Bouzujnac on the 1750 Cassini Map and as la Baftide on the 1790 version.
Administration
List of Successive MayorsList of Mayors of France From To Name 1790 1792 Jean Lanta 1792 1794 Jean Boudouresque 1794 1798 Jean Pilles 1798 1815 Joseph Boudouresque 1815 1824 Baptiste Fidency 1824 1830 Maurice Boudouresque 1830 1847 François Authie 1847 1865 François Boudouresque 1865 1870 Jean Baptiste Authie 1870 1871 François Boudouresque 1871 1877 Jean Baptiste Authie 1877 1909 Maurice Boudouresque 1909 1920 Noël Authie 1920 1929 Jules Sénié 1929 1947 Joseph Henri Elie Cassagne 1947 2014 Roger Sénié 2014 2020 Grégory Balard 2020 2026 Alain Simorre
In February 2013 Roger Senie announces he would not stand in 2014.La Bastide de Bousignac: the "oldest mayor in France" abandons the political battle La Bastide-de-Bousignac. Roger Sénié, 93 years, renounces his post as mayor, La Dépêche du Midi, 11 February 2014. Consulted on 14 February 2014. In July 2013 he was reelected mayor after resigning in protest against the forced inclusion of La Bastide-de-Bousignac into the community of communes of the Pays de Mirepoix. Serving from 1947 to 2014, he was the oldest mayor in France equally with Arthur Richier, the mayor of Faucon-du-Caire in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.Mayor since 1947, he was elected again who, like him, did not stand in March 2014.A. N., The last wishes of the oldest Mayor in France, La Provence, 4 February 2014, p. 9.
Demography The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bousignacois or Bousignacoises in French.Inhabitants of Ariège
Culture and heritage
Religious heritage
The Church Bell (Middle Ages) is registered as an historical monument.Ministry of Culture, Mérimée
Notable people linked to the commune Pierre Espert de Sibra (1771–1835), General of the armies of the Republic and the Empire, died in the hamlet of Balach. Roger Sénié (born in 1921), Mayor of the commune from 1947 to 2014
See also Communes of the Ariège department
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