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Pujaudran
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Pujaudran
Total population
1,657
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Overview
Pujaudran is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. Historically and culturally, the commune is in the Savès, a small Gascon province corresponding to the middle course of the Save.
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History
At a place called Pargamousques, west of the village, an initial survey revealed a Gallo-Roman site. A route dating from 333 AD, linking Bordeaux to Jerusalem, crossed the commune of Pujaudran from west to east. The toponym of a locality may be of ancient origin: Tellère, spelled Teulères in the 17th century, means "place where tiles were made." The existence of a tile works at this location seems all the more plausible given the marl outcrops there. In the 11th century, the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela developed, and Pujaudran happened to be situated on the Via Tolosana, which connected Arles to Puente la Reina (Spain). At the end of the 13th century, the Antonine Order had a commandery with a church and hospital on the border between the communes of Pujaudran and L'Isle-Jourdain. A document dating from 1304 mentions the presence of three hospitals in Pujaudran: Saint-Jacques, Saint-Blaise-Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, and Saint-Barthélemy. The Saint-Blaise hospital was located at the foot of the Pujaudran hill. In the locality of Saint-Bretz, southeast of the village, approximately 3 km from the present-day village, a parish existed in the High Middle Ages. It is likely that this church was the parish church and that its patron saint was Saint Brice, before the construction of the current church. In the 17th century, during the reconstruction of the church after the destruction caused by the Wars of Religion, the name of Saint Pudentiana appears. According to the terms of Anne de Capmas's will, the church of Pujaudran and the Saint-Brice chapel were, in the 17th century, two separate buildings. The patron saint's festival takes place on May 19th, the feast day of Saint Pudentiana. With the French Revolution of 1789, the Church's property was sold at auction on…
Geography
Pujaudran is a commune in the Toulouse metropolitan area, located 6 km east-southeast of L'Isle-Jourdain and about thirty kilometers west of Toulouse, just past Léguevin on the road to Auch. The commune borders the Haute-Garonne department. Pujaudran borders five other communes, three of which are in the Haute-Garonne department. Au Battut, Pesqué, Galabart, La Carrerasse, Dalezan, The commune occupies the last terrace of the Garonne River before the Gascony hills. Its territory is divided into a lower part, known as the Plain, and an upper part, which includes the village itself. Part of the Forêt de Bouconne is located within the commune. The commune covers an area of 1,741 hectares; its altitude ranges from 194 to 297 meters. Pujaudran is located in seismic zone 1 (very low seismicity). The commune is in the Garonne basin, within the Adour-Garonne hydrographic basin. It is drained by the Rémoulin, the Saint-Blaise stream, the paradise stream, the Moulinasse and by various small streams such as the golden chibrette, which constitute a hydrographic network of 17 km in total length. The zone naturelle d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique (ZNIEFF) aims to cover the most ecologically significant areas, primarily to improve knowledge of the national natural heritage and to provide decision-makers with a tool to help them integrate environmental considerations into land-use planning. Two type 1 ZNIEFFs are identified within the commune: the "Bois des Arramous" (416 ha), covering three communes, one in Haute-Garonne and two in Gers, and the "Forêt de Bouconne" (2,868 ha), covering ten communes, nine in Haute-Garonne and one in Gers.
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Official Identifiers
INSEE — French National Institute of Statistics
- INSEE code
- 32334
- Department
- 32
- Region
- 76
- Population (Wikidata)
- 1,750
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • INSEE — French national statistics, via geo.api.gouv.fr (official commune code, population, surface, department, region)
- • INSEE — French National Institute of Statistics — geo.api.gouv.fr