Arget

Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Arget

Commune

An old farmhouse in Arget

Location of Arget

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Coordinates: 43°32′38″N 0°31′38″W﻿ / ﻿43.5439°N 0.5272°W﻿ / 43.5439; -0.5272
Country| France
Region| Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department| Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement| Pau
Canton| Artix et Pays de Soubestre
Intercommunality| Luys en Béarn
Government

• Mayor (2020–2026) | Thierry Soustra[1]

Area

| 4.00 km2 (1.54 sq mi)
Population

(2022)[2]

| 80
• Density| 20/km2 (52/sq mi)
Time zone| UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code|

64044 /64410

Elevation| 75–182 m (246–597 ft)
(avg. 131 m or 430 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Arget (French pronunciation: [aʁʒɛt]; Occitan: Argent) is a commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. It is part of the traditional province of Béarn.

## Geography

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Arget is located some 18 km north-east of Orthez and 12 km south-east of Hagetmau on the border between Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Landes departments. It can be accessed by the D264 road from Montagut in the east passing through the commune and the village (of 2 buildings) and continuing south-west to Casteide-Candau. The commune has quite large areas of forest in the west but is mostly farmland.[3]

Several streams rise in the commune with the Hourquet forming the north-western border as it flows north-east to join the Ruisseau de la Rance at the northern tip of the commune. The Rance forms the north-eastern border as it flows north-west. The south-eastern border also consists of an unnamed stream which joins the Rance just outside the eastern tip of the commune.[3]

### Places and hamlets

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* Bayoc
* Boué[4]
* Capère
* Carrèrot[5]
* Castagnet
* Conte
* Cousnat
* Glaude
* Herris
* Hibet[6]
* Hourcq[7]
* Ménou
* Montaut
* Pourtique[8]
* Régidou
* Séris
* Touroun[9]
* Vignau

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### Neighbouring communes and villages

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Places adjacent to Arget

| Peyre | Monget | Malaussanne

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Castelner |

Arget

| Montagut
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Saint-Médard | Morlanne | Piets-Plasence-Moustrou

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## Toponymy

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The commune name in béarnais is Arget.

Michel Grosclaude was unable to justify the local belief that the name means "sandy place" from arena (meaning "sand") with the collective suffix -etum (giving arenetum then arenet then areet then ariet), and could not conclude other than "of uncertain origin and meaning".[11]

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Name | Spelling | Date | Source | Page | Origin | Description

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Arget | Argiet | 1383 | Raymond |

| Luntz | Village
| Arzet | 1695 | Raymond |

| Order of Malta |
| Arget | 1750 | Cassini |  |  |

Sources:

* Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)[12]
* Grosclaude: Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, 2006 (in French)[11]

Origins:

* Luntz:[13]
* Order of Malta: Titles of the Order of Malta[14]

## History

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Paul Raymond said on page 10 of his 1863 Topographical Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees that Arget depended on the Commandery of Malta of Caubin and Morlaàs and on the Barony of Moustrou, built in 1647, and was a vassal of the Viscounts of Béarn.[12]

## Administration

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The Town Hall |

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List of Successive Mayors[15]

From | To | Name

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1995 | 2001 | Chantal Gallenmuller
2001 | 2026 | Thierry Soustra

## Demography

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The inhabitants of the commune are known as Argétois or Argétoises in French.[16]

Historical population| Year| Pop.| ±% p.a.

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1793 | 213| —
1800 | 201| −0.82%
1806 | 315| +7.78%
1821 | 223| −2.28%
1831 | 270| +1.93%
1836 | 248| −1.69%
1841 | 294| +3.46%
1846 | 303| +0.60%
1851 | 302| −0.07%
1856 | 282| −1.36%
1861 | 227| −4.25%
1866 | 206| −1.92%
1872 | 190| −1.34%
1876 | 195| +0.65%
1881 | 200| +0.51%
1886 | 205| +0.50%
1891 | 193| −1.20%
1896 | 172| −2.28%
| Year| Pop.| ±% p.a.

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1901 | 167| −0.59%
1906 | 161| −0.73%
1911 | 170| +1.09%
1921 | 159| −0.67%
1926 | 151| −1.03%
1931 | 139| −1.64%
1936 | 130| −1.33%
1946 | 119| −0.88%
1954 | 107| −1.32%
1962 | 110| +0.35%
1968 | 99| −1.74%
1975 | 100| +0.14%
1982 | 97| −0.43%
1990 | 79| −2.53%
1999 | 83| +0.55%
2007 | 89| +0.88%
2012 | 89| +0.00%
2017 | 78| −2.60%
Source: EHESS[17] and INSEE[18]

## Culture and heritage

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Arget War Memorial

### Civil heritage

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Arget has many farms that are registered as historical monuments:

* A Farmhouse at Hourcq (1832)[7]
* The Menusé farm at Pourtique (1897)[8]
* The Lajournade farm at Pourtique (18th century)[19]
* The Pemeste farm at Hourcq (1797)[20]
* Houses and Farms[21]
* A Farmhouse at Boué (1905)[4]
* A Farmhouse at Hibet (1871)[6]
* A Farmhouse at Carrèrot (1898)[5]
* A Farmhouse at Touroun (18th century)[9]

### Religious heritage

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The Church of Notre Dame Main Altar

The Parish Church of Notre Dame (12th century) is registered as an historical monument.[22] It contains several items that are registered as historical objects:

* The Furniture in the Church[23][24]
* A Bronze Processional Cross (18th century)[25]
* A Wooden Processional Cross (19th century)[26]

## Notable people

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* Annie Beustes, a New Caledonian politician born in Arget.

## See also

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* Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

## References

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1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. ^ a b c Google Maps
4. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000066 Farmhouse at Boué (in French)
5. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000063 Farmhouse at Carrèrot (in French)
6. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000064 Farmhouse at Hibet (in French)
7. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000061 Farmhouse at Hourcq (in French)
8. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000059 Menusé farm at Pourtique (in French)
9. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000060 Farmhouse at Touroun (in French)
10. ^ Géoportail, IGN (in French)
11. ^ a b Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3 (in French)
12. ^ a b Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
13. ^ Contracts retained by Luntz, Notary of Béarn in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
14. ^ Titles of the Order of Malta in the Departmental Archives of Haute-Garonne (in French)
15. ^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
16. ^ Pyrénées-Atlantiques, habitants.fr
17. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Arget, EHESS (in French).
18. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
19. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000065 Lajournade farm at Pourtique (in French)
20. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000062 Pemeste farm at Hourcq (in French)
21. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000135 Houses and Farms (in French)
22. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000001 Parish Church of Notre Dame (in French)
23. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002827 Furniture in the Church (in French)
24. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002780 Supplementary list of Furniture in the Church (in French)
25. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002651 Bronze Processional Cross (in French)
26. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64002650 Wooden Processional Cross (in French)

## External links

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* Arget on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
* Arget on the 1750 Cassini Map

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