The transition zone descending from the mountains (1,200 m) to the valley of the Rhône (300 to 400 m), is the plateau region. Au Conseil Général il fut Président de la Commission des Finances, Président de Sarthe Développement et Président du Syndicat mixte d’aménagement numérique. On the slopes one finds vines and fruit trees. Each year the Ardeche hosts one of France's biggest road cycling events, L'Ardéchoise, with 16,000 entrants participating in 2011. Within a distance of a few kilometres is the volcanic lake of Issarlès (92 ha, 5 km in circumference, 108 m in depth). Despite this, the sons of a local Annonay paper-maker, Joseph and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier ascended in the first hot air balloon over the town on 4 June 1783. Il était jusqu’à son élection au Sénat Vice-Président du Conseil Général. Jean Pierre Vogel, sénateur et conseiller municipal à Bonnétable (Sarthe) a présenté son équipe pour les élections sénatoriales du 27 septembre 2020. The Ardèche department is known for the speciality of Sweet Chestnuts, with the famous "châtaigne d'Ardèche" granted the appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) in 2006. With a generally low altitude the Bas-Vivarais enjoys a warm, and dry, almost Mediterranean climate. Titulaire d’une licence de droit des affaires, diplômé de l’institut d’études politiques de Paris il fut Directeur de Le Blanc de Nicolaÿ (LBN) société de courtage en réassurance de 1977 à 1998 suite à l’acquisition de LBN par AON. The President of the Departmental Council has been Laurent Ughetto of the Socialist Party (PS) since 2017. The department, corresponding to the ancient province of Vivarais, is part of the current region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and is surrounded by the French departments of Drôme, Vaucluse, Gard, Lozère, Haute-Loire, Loire and Isère. During the Hundred Years War, the area maintained its loyalty to the French crown, despite frequent attacks from the west. Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/page/index.php Function: _error_handler, Message: Invalid argument supplied for foreach(), File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_modal.php En Juin 2014 la liste de Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ où figurent également Fabienne Labrette-Ménager et Fabien Lorne a obtenu le soutien de François Fillon à la commission de l’UMP. Function: require_once, Message: Undefined variable: user_membership, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_modal.php Line: 24 File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_modal.php The Ardèche river flows as far as the Rhône, following a course generally to the south east. Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ, sénateur de la Sarthe, siège au conseil d’administration de l’ANCT. Suite à la promulgation de la loi sur le non-cumul des mandats, Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ a mis fin à son mandat de maire au 1er octobre 2017 ainsi que de vice-président de la communauté de communes. Line: 208 The area of the Vivarais suffered greatly in the 9th century with raids from Magyar and Saracen slavers operating from the coast of Provence resulting in an overall depopulation of the region. [citation needed] The river has the largest canyon in Europe and the caves that dot the cliffs—which go as high as 300 metres (1,000 feet)—are known for signs of prehistoric inhabitants (arrowheads and flint knives are often found). At the 200th anniversary in 1983, some 50 hot air balloons took part with the first historic flight reenacted with people dressed in period costume. The mountainous areas is much less densely populated with only 6 to 7 inhabitants per km2 in the cantons of Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès and Valgorge. Saint Andéol, a disciple of Polycarp, is supposed to have evangelized the Vivarais during the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus, and was supposedly martyred in 208. In 1629, Paule de Chambaud, daughter of the Huguenot lord of Privas, chose instead to marry a Catholic, the Vicomte de l'Estrange, who supported the persecution of Protestants by Cardinal Richelieu. Line: 107 Maps of different types of agricultural products translate clearly into these five regions. Durant son parcours professionnel Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ a cumulé les mandats de Conseiller Municipal, d’adjoint au Maire du Lude et de Conseiller Général. Line: 68 As a result of the reformation of John Calvin in Geneva, the Vivarais Ardèche was one of the areas which strongly embraced Protestantism partly as a result of the missionary activity of 1534 by Jacques Valery. Nevertheless, the temperatures are moderated by the influence of the "Midi" to the south. Le Sénat est composé de 348 sénateurs, élus pour un mandat de six ans. Site officiel du sénateur Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ / droits réservés @ljdenicolay, © 2023 par Simone Morrin. The scientific pioneer Marc Seguin, whose inventions played a key role in the development of early locomotives, was born in the department. As a result, six blast furnaces were established, but they were only moderately profitable, the last closing at Pouzain in 1929. Skies are wide and bright, temperatures more elevated (3 or 4 °C in January). After a period of eclipse, Viviers was re-established in 1822 as the site of the see of the bishops of Ardèche, where it remains to this day. At its widest, the department does not exceed 75 km. Line: 192 The soil is rich and fertile. During the following Wars of Religion (1562–1598), the Ardèche was considered a strategically important location between Protestant Geneva, Lyon and Catholic Languedoc. The Rhône corridor is very straight on the right bank which runs almost at the foot of the Vivarais plateaus, leaving tiny plains where the rivers from the Vivarais descend to the Rhône. The medieval county of Viviers or Vivarais at this time was administratively a part of the Kingdom of Arles, formed in 933 with the fusion by Rudolph II of Burgundy of the realms of Provence and Burgundy and bequeathed by its last monarch Rudolph III of Burgundy to the Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II in 1032. However, Seguin located his business upstream near Lyon, and industrial development in the Ardèche remained relatively small scale. Function: view, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/index.php The Ardèche contains a part of Cévennes National Park. These influences climb the length of the valleys to the summit of the high plateau, which resists their passage, not letting them penetrate. This led to the Camisard revolt of the Ardèche prophets. Throughout the 19th century, a modest economic growth took place. Après avoir annoncé le 10 juillet 2020 qu'il briguait un nouveau mandat, il présente ses colistiers. The population grew from 273,000 in 1793 to 388,500 in 1861. Line: 315 The Ardeche County Tourist website, ardeche.com lists a large number of gîtes, camp-sites, hotels and B&Bs. This plateau with an altitude of 800 metres above sea level, is completely surrounded to the north by the valleys of the Ouvèze and the Payre, to the south by the valley of the Escoutay, to the west by the Col of the Escrinet and the valley of Vesseaux. Their inclination slopes gently towards the west, thus leading to a westerly flow of water towards the Atlantic. Il reste conseiller municipal du Lude et conseiller communautaire. Suite à l’acquisition de Le Blanc de Nicolaÿ en 1998 il se consacre davantage à la politique et devient Conseiller Régional de 1998 à 2014 et Président de la Commission Economique du Conseil Régional de 2002 à 2004. This Karst region is formed of calcareous limestones, where the streams flow in steep-sided valleys separated by sharp crests. "The true character of the Ardèche is" according to A. Siegfried, "of a slope turning towards the Mediterranean, open to the influences coming from the Midi. The Vivarais, as the Ardèche is still called, takes its name and coat-of-arms from Viviers, which was the capital of the Gaulish tribe of Helvii, part of Gallia Narbonensis, after the destruction of their previous capital at Alba-la-Romaine. In the following century, despite the growth of the community of Annonay, an increasing polarisation between the upper nobility families such as Rohan Soubise, and Vogue, Count of Aubenas, possessing huge financial fortunes, and the lesser nobility, the village clergy and the bourgeoisie of the Vivarais paralleled developments elsewhere in France. Louis XIV responded by dispatching Dragoons, who brutalised the population by "dragonnades", destroying a number of communities. The medium altitude of the plateau is one of green forested crests separated by wild and uncrossable gorges. As a result, it suffered many attacks and eight pitched battles between 1562 and 1595. Annonay, Tournon-sur-Rhône and Guilherand-Granges benefit from the proximity of the nearby town of Valence and the economically more advanced department of la Drôme. As a result of brutality on both sides, a further 50,000 Archèche Protestants left France, many fleeing to Switzerland, whilst others were forced into abjuration (conversion). For example, le Cheylard and Lamastre have recently lost 300 and 250 inhabitants respectively. Line: 479 The brutality of those years was enormous and peace was only restored in 1715. During this period, the Maillard family, as Counts of Tournon, were influential in the Ardèche. Locally throughout this period, the Church played an important role. Today, the population numbers 309,000 (compared to 390,000 in 1860). Function: view, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Chevalier&oldid=166968562. Population density is highest in the regions around the two towns of Annonay and Aubenas and along the edge of the Rhône valley. Under the Directory, bands of Chouans took to the Cevennes to escape and support former emigrés. “L’État avec nos territoires : Inauguration de la rénovation de la toiture de l'église de Duneau en présence de Mme La Sous-préfète, du maire, des député et sénateur, de l’Évêque du Mans et du président du Perche Sarthois85 000€ crédits État (DRAC) soit 40% du coût des travaux” Il sera élu Sénateur de la Sarthe avec 348 voix (23,09 %) le 28 Septembre suivant. Farming is dominated by the growing of wheat, oats and potatoes, dominates, with the raising of goats and cattle. The plateau of the Ardèche river has extensive standing stones (dolmens and menhirs), erected thousands of years ago. Line: 478 John II (Giovanni of Siena), Cardinal and Bishop of Viviers (1073–1095), accompanied Pope Urban II to the Council of Clermont. Hydrographic resources are dominated by these torrential streams and rainfall is characterised by the frequent importance of summer showers, with climate much less extreme than that of the mountains to the west. The support of Count François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas representing the Third Estate of the Vivarais in the States General, the freeing of the serfs and the support of the lesser clergy of the church ensured that the Ardèchois had supported the early revolution, but they withdrew support when things became more radical. As one of the poorer districts in France, emigration from the Ardèche outnumbered immigrants for a long time, although this situation has recently changed. 1er Vice-Président de la Communauté de Communes Sud-Sarthe, Président de la Communauté de Communes du Bassin Ludois, Vice-président du Conseil général de la Sarthe. Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ, né le 18 septembre 1949 au Mans est un homme politique, membre du groupe Les Républicains. Despite this demographic recovery, the area remains marked by a rural exodus which minimises the effects of a higher than average birth rate. In 1284, with the Cistercian Abbey of Marzan, Philip IV established Villeneuve de Berg, and by the treaty of 10 July 1305 Philip IV of France obliged the bishops of Vivarais to admit the sovereignty of the Kings of France over all their temporal domain. C’est en 2014 que Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ sera élu Maire du Lude avec 1295 voix (68.77%) en Mars, puis Président de la Communauté de communes du Bassin Ludois à la majorité absolue avec 24 voix et 3 abstentions le 14 avril. All the Ardeche in video HD online, official tourism website with all places to visit, camp-sites, gîtes, hotels and B&Bs. No large towns appeared in the department during the years of France's industrialisation, and its official population total of 388,500, reached in 1861, turned out to be a peak level which has not been matched subsequently. During the Reign of Terror, in 1794, the guillotine at Privas was kept busy with the execution of the former moderate supporters of the revolution. During the French Revolution, in 1789, with the Declaration of Human Rights, Ardèche Protestants were at last recognised as citizens in their own right, free at last to practise their faith. Department of France in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Arrondissements of the Ardèche department, Site sur la Population et les Limites Administratives de la France. Créé avec Wix.com, Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ, né le 18 septembre 1949 au Mans est un homme politique, membre du groupe Les Républicains. Sénateur de la Sarthe; 26 avril 1959 – 1 er octobre 1968: 7 novembre 1948 – 26 avril 1959: Biographie; Date de naissance: 14 octobre 1896: Lieu de naissance: Meudon : Date de décès: 17 mars 1971 (à 74 ans) Lieu de décès: Mamers : Nationalité : Française: Profession : Sénateur : modifier The few rivers, the Lavezon, Escoutay, and Frayol, provide less of a hydrological resource than one sees in the crysaline granitic areas to the north. The influence of Protestant Lyon, and the growth of the silk industry, thanks to the planting of mulberry trees, had given the burghers of the Vivarais towns a certain independence of thinking, and with the support of powerful Protestant Huguenots, (the Comte de Crussol and Olivier de Serres), the Vivarais became a Protestant stronghold. The inhabitants of the department are called Ardéchois. It covers an area of 5,550 square kilometres, a size that hides the great diversity from place to place in terms of relief, the absence of access to rapid transport (unique in France) and the difficulties in transport from one part of the Ardeche to another, above all in winter. Il est également Président du Comice Agricole du canton du Lude depuis 1987 d’où son encrage profond à la Sarthe et notamment au Sud-Sarthe où il réside. The high and the low are thus opposed, such is the character of the Ardèche personality.". The climate here is also fairly extreme: snow, without being thick, is frequent, variations of temperature accentuated by the fact of the strong cold winds that blow. The firm of Canson Mongolfier continues making paper to this day and on the anniversary every year on the first weekend in June a large hot air balloon gathering celebrates the event of the first journey. Mining at Privas saw the exploitation of local iron ore, which was quickly depleted. Named after the river of the same name, the Ardèche was one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. With its rivers and streams, Ardèche has become a favorite place for canoe and kayak enthusiasts from around the world. Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ, sénateur de la Sarthe, est candidat à sa succession. The climate is extreme: snow for many months, very violent winds over autumn and winter (known locally as "la burle"), frequent fogs in the valleys, extreme falls of temperature between the seasons, with heavy rains (1,500 mm per year in average) strongly concentrated in September and October. Suite à la promulgation de la loi sur le non-cumul des mandats, Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ a mis fin à son mandat de maire au 1er octobre 2017 ainsi que de vice-président de la communauté de communes. The area has been inhabited by humans at least since the Upper Paleolithic, as attested by the famous cave paintings at Chauvet Pont d'Arc. Privas shares this inaccessibility, being by road 589 km from Paris, 574 km from Strasbourg, 215 km from Marseille, 211 km from Annecy, 162 km from Chambéry, 147 km from Nîmes, 140 km from Lyon, 135 km from Grenoble, and 127 km from Saint-Étienne. Here the strong wind of the north, (known as the mistral) dominates. Il nous parle des attentes des territoires envers l’Agence dans la période de relance économique et sociale qui s’ouvre. The winds from the north-east are dominant, but those of the south (known as the "vent du midi") and of the west are full of humidity, bringing heavy precipitation for a few days at a time. In the southern interior with the town of Aubenas and the valley of the Ardèche river, the population of the cantons of Villeneuve-de-Berg and of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc grow at four times the speed of the departmental average. In 1598, the Edict of Nantes put an end to these struggles. With the Napoleonic period, the Ardèche entered a period of increasingly prosperous inconspicuousness. In 1990, Ardèche reached once again the population level it had 50 years earlier. This is the country of the vine, of shrubland, of cereals and extensive fruit trees (this is the region of Aubenas and of Joyeuse). Since the 1860s, the Ardèche economy has been split between the prosperous Rhône valley and the relatively poor and mountainous Haut Vivarais on the western side of the department. During the summer months, many European tourists visit the Ardèche, principally Dutch and Germans staying at camping sites. Sénat Robert Chevalier, né le 14 octobre 1896 et mort le 17 mars 1971, est un homme politique français. Président du Comice Agricole du canton du Lude. They number about 11,000, representing a full 4% of the population. However, Catholicism continued to grow and by the early 19th century, the Ardèche included only 34,000 Protestants out of a population of 290,000. Sheep farming did not lead to the prosperity hoped for and wine growing, which was badly hit by the phylloxera crisis during the closing decades of the 19th century, has had to compete with other more established areas of France. Il reste conseiller municipal du Lude et conseiller communautaire. In the early 10th century, economic recovery saw the building of many Romanesque churches in the region including Ailhon, Mercuer, Saint Julien du Serre, Balazuc, Niègles and Rochecolombe. The realm was largely ignored by the Emperors and was finally granted to France as part of the domain of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of Valois in 1308. The Rhône valley and the Annonay region, close to the main axes of communication, (Highways and the TGV railway) are the most urbanised areas of the department. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ardèche&oldid=977933506, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox settlement with bad settlement type, Articles containing Occitan-language text, Articles containing Arpitan-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2008, Articles with French-language sources (fr), Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The plateaus of the Haut-Vivarais and the Cévennes, This page was last edited on 11 September 2020, at 21:13. The small plains are very fertile and favourable to orchards (peaches and apricots) at first and on the slopes the vines dominate. Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/page/index.php The department elected three members of the National Assembly in the 2017 legislative election: Representing Ardèche in the Senate are Michel Teston and Yves Chastan. Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_harry_book.php Privas, with a majority of the population Protestant, refused to submit, and as a centre of the revolt of the Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise, was burned to the ground by the forces of Louis XIII, sent to support the Vicomte de l'Estrange. As the mountains and the plateau continue to depopulate, those of the Rhône valley, Bas-Vivarais and lower Ardèche are continuing to grow, but the population situation, whilst better than in the past, still remains an issue for the region. It is named after the Ardèche River and had a population of 320,379 as of 2013. The region had prospered with the introduction of tobacco growing from America, and the agrarian experiments of Olivier de Serres, father of modern French agriculture. The Ardèche has an average population density of 52 per km2, compared to 122 per km2 for the Rhône-Alpes region and 104 per km2 in France. Some 50% of the population of the department lives in rural communities, compared to a national average of 75% of the French population living in urban locations. It is built of basalt which extends in length 18 km in the direction of the Rhône, and at its widest is a maximum 11 km in width. Il est actuellement maire du Lude, Président de la Communautés de communes du Bassin Ludois et Sénateur de la Sarthe depuis 2014. As a result, one-fifth of the Protestant population of the Vivarais emigrated. Ardèche is divided into three arrondissements. At that time, the Vivarais had over 75 Protestant churches and five fortified strongholds with permanent garrisons. Présentation de M. Jean Pierre Vogel, sénateur de la Sarthe (Pays de la Loire) Its largest cities are Aubenas, Annonay, Guilherand-Granges, Tournon-sur-Rhône and Privas (prefecture). It was later held in fief by the Counts of Toulouse, who lost it to the French crown in 1229. The high plateau and the mountainous areas as far as Privas continue to lose its young population (the median age of the population as a whole is growing more elderly as a result of the weakness of the power of this region to attract new permanent inhabitants). Basically they are of granitic composition split by the Velay Basalts of the Massif of Mézenc, and the Forez Mounts, centred upon volcanic cones of ash, lava plugs and numerous magma flows (Mézenc: 1,754 metres; Gerbier de Jonc: 1,551 m). Here the natural growth in population is everywhere positive. Suite à la promulgation de la loi sur le non-cumul des mandats, Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ a mis fin à son mandat de maire au 1er octobre 2017 ainsi que de vice-président de la communauté de communes. Here the Loire has its source. However, the problems of the area were not over. Ardèche has a low population of foreign born immigrants, found almost exclusively in the tourist locations of Largentière, Le Pouzin and Bourg-Saint-Andéol. Function: view, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/controllers/Main.php Ardèche (French: [aʁdɛʃ]; Occitan: Ardecha; Francoprovençal: Ardecha) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. There are five natural regions of the Ardèche: They border the western frontier of the department with an average altitude of 1,100 metres. [1] In 430, Auxonius transferred the see to Viviers as a result of the problems suffered at its previous site in Alba Augusta. The area is very well known for sport climbing, with many well-managed limestone and granite crags. The silk worm industry boomed until 1855, when disease affected the worms and competition with China undermined the industry's profitability. Legend tells of Andéol's burial by Amycia Eucheria Tullia. It is a land of great contrasts: at the lowest it is at a mere 40 metres of elevation above sea level at the point at which the Ardèche river flows into the Rhône (in the southeast of the department) up to 1,754 metres at Mont Mézenc (centre-west), it is bordered to the east by the length of the Rhône valley for 140 km and to the west by the high plateaus of the Massif Central. Il est actuellement, Président de la Communautés de communes du Bassin Ludois, Conseiller Municipal, d’adjoint au Maire du Lude et de Conseiller Général, Président de la Commission Economique du Conseil Régional, Président du Syndicat mixte d’aménagement numérique, élu Sénateur de la Sarthe avec 348 voix (23,09 %). Il sera élu Sénateur de la Sarthe avec 348 voix (23,09 %) le 28 Septembre suivant. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which finally outlawed Protestantism, resulted in the peasant family of Marie and Pierre Durand leading a revolt against royal authority. The area has been inhabited by humans at least since the Upper Paleolithic, as attested by the famous cave paintings at Chauvet Pont d'Arc.The plateau of the Ardèche river has extensive standing stones (dolmens and menhirs), erected thousands of years ago. Despite this, the rate of natural increase is practically non-existent, as the Ardèche also has a higher than average median age amongst Ardèche born inhabitants, and thus also a higher than average death rate.