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Assencières - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 48°21′32″N 4°11′59″E / 48.3589°N 4.1997°E

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Assencières
Commune
The road into Assencières
Coat of arms
Location of Assencières
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Coordinates: 48°21′32″N 4°11′59″E / 48.3589°N 4.1997°E / 48.3589; 4.1997
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Aube
Arrondissement	Troyes
Canton	Brienne-le-Château
Intercommunality	CC Forêts Lacs Terres Champagne
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Louis Pinet^[1]
Area ¹	7.39 km² (2.85 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	187
• Density	25/km² (66/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	10014 /10220
Elevation	164 m (538 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Assencières (French pronunciation: [asɑ̃sjɛʁ]) is a commune in the Aube department in the Grand Est region of north-central France.

Geography

Assencières is located some 11 km north-east of Troyes and 8 km south-east of Charmont-sous-Barbuise. Access to the commune is by the D 8 road from Luyères in the north passing through the village and the heart of the commune and continuing to Mesnil-Sellières in the south. The D 100 also starts from the village and goes north-east to Bouy-Luxembourg. There is a railway passing through the commune from Charmont-sous-Barbuise in the north to La Chapelle-Saint-Luc in the south-west but there is no station in or near the commune. The commune is entirely flat farmland.^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

Places adjacent to Assencières

Vailly

Luyères

Bouy-Luxembourg

Assencières

Creney-près-Troyes

Mesnil-Sellières

Rouilly-Sacey

^[3]

Administration

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2021)

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name
	1857	Briet-Baulard
	1887	Derrez
2001	2008	Gérard Leclercq
2008	2026	Jean-Louis Pinet

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 171 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	176	—
1800	162	−1.18%
1806	155	−0.73%
1821	157	+0.09%
1831	138	−1.28%
1836	140	+0.29%
1841	139	−0.14%
1846	134	−0.73%
1851	127	−1.07%
1856	123	−0.64%
1861	112	−1.86%
1866	110	−0.36%
1872	112	+0.30%
1876	108	−0.91%
1881	101	−1.33%
1886	102	+0.20%
1891	91	−2.26%
1896	82	−2.06%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	78	−1.00%
1906	72	−1.59%
1911	62	−2.95%
1921	62	+0.00%
1926	87	+7.01%
1931	87	+0.00%
1936	92	+1.12%
1946	77	−1.76%
1954	77	+0.00%
1962	68	−1.54%
1968	73	+1.19%
1975	85	+2.20%
1982	89	+0.66%
1990	106	+2.21%
1999	145	+3.54%
2007	170	+2.01%
2012	204	+3.71%
2017	171	−3.47%

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Source: EHESS^[5] and INSEE^[6]

Sites and monuments

The Church of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul used to have three naves from the 16th century which collapsed in 1947.^[7] There are many items which are registered as historical objects:

Stoup (17th century)^[8]
Sculpture: Christ on the cross (19th century)^[9]
Main Altar, Tabernacle, and Retable (18th century)^[10]
Retable star (18th century)^[11]
Statue: Saint-Pierre (16th century)^[12]
Statue: Saint-Fiacre (16th century)^[13]
Processional cross (17th century)^[14]
Group Sculpture: Christ & 2 angels with the instruments of the Passion (16th century)^[15]
Stained glass windows: Death of the Virgin (16th century)^[16]
Statue: Virgin & child (16th century)^[17]
Stained glass windows: Visitation of Saint-Pierre (16th century)^[18]
Reliquary-bust: Saint-Fiacre (18th century)^[19]
Bronze Bell (17th century)^[20]
Choir balustrade (18th century)^[21]
Stained glass window: the Crucifixion (16th century)^[22]
Glass figure in Bay 2 (15th century)^[23]
Glass figure in Bay 0 (15th century)^[24]

Notable people linked to the commune

Alexandre Marchais, who was called Le Mose, was born in 1962 and spent his childhood in Assencières. He made his first steps in performing at parties before turning to street music and eventually join a travelling troupe of acrobats. But it was in the gypsy community that he is known by becoming one of the leading exponents of ericius music.