Bard-lès-Époisses

Bard-lès-Époisses
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Bard-lès-Époisses
Bard-lès-Époisses Bard-lès-Époisses
Coordinates: 47°31′56″N 4°13′00″E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Montbard
Canton	Semur-en-Auxois
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Michel Massé
Area 1	3.54 km2 (1.37 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	71
• Density	20/km2 (52/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	21047 /21460
Elevation	228–365 m (748–1,198 ft) (avg. 247 m or 810 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bard-lès-Époisses (French pronunciation: [baʁ lɛ.z‿epwas], literally Bard near Époisses) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

Geography

Bard-lès-Époisses is located some 14 km south-west of Montbard and 5 km north-east of Époisses. Access to the commune is by the D4 road from Athie in the north-east which passes through the heart of the commune and the village and continues south-west to Corrombles. The D4H comes from Corsaint in the west and passes through the length of the commune, intersecting the D4 in the village, and continues east to join the D4M south-west of Jeux-lès-Bard. Apart from some forest in the north the commune is almost entirely farmland.

The Ru d'Acier stream flows through the east of the commune from south-west to north-east and continues to join the Ruisseau de la Prée north-east of Jeux-lès-Bard.

History

For many centuries the commune was called Bar.

Bar was an annex of Torcy with its patron Saint Matthew. Attached to the diocese of Langres, the parish had 3 parts: Bar, Jeux (formerly Jox and Jovum), and a portion of Corrombles called the Rue de Bar. The parish had 300 communicants. The Lord was the bishop of Langres then the abbot of Moutiers-Saint-Jean to whom the church was given in 1141. The Town Hall fief was given to Charles Lanneau de Marey, Knight of Saint Louis. Among the older families there are the Drouhin. P. Drouhin was Châtelain of Vieux-Château in 1409.

Bard-lès-Époisses appears as Bard on the 1750 Cassini Map and the same on the 1790 version.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name
2001	2026	Jean Michel Massé

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barrois or Barroises in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 538 —     1800 240 −10.89% 1806 243 +0.21% 1821 200 −1.29% 1831 200 +0.00% 1836 214 +1.36% 1841 189 −2.45% 1846 190 +0.11% 1851 188 −0.21% 1856 170 −1.99% 1861 184 +1.60% 1866 169 −1.69% 1872 155 −1.43% 1876 149 −0.98% 1881 145 −0.54% 1886 138 −0.98% 1891 142 +0.57% 1896 136 −0.86%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 142 +0.87% 1906 112 −4.64% 1911 123 +1.89% 1921 105 −1.57% 1926 97 −1.57% 1931 101 +0.81% 1936 93 −1.64% 1946 82 −1.25% 1954 96 +1.99% 1962 91 −0.67% 1968 95 +0.72% 1975 90 −0.77% 1982 72 −3.14% 1990 66 −1.08% 1999 67 +0.17% 2007 76 +1.59% 2012 53 −6.96% 2017 70 +5.72%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

Economy

The hill slopes were covered with vines in the early 20th century but the rural exodus and the consequent reduction in population led the remaining farmers to focus their activity on livestock grazing and mixed farming in the plains, leaving the hills area mostly fallow.

Notable people linked to the commune

• Étienne Bouhot (8 August 1780 – 17 July 1862), painter, was born in the commune.
• Victor de Lanneau (25 December 1758 – 1830), defrocked priest and teacher, was born in the commune.

See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department