Barneville-la-Bertran (before 1995: Barneville)Décret du 6 novembre 1995 portant changement de nom de communes, Journal officiel de la République française n° 0266, 16 November 1995, p. 16810. is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.INSEE commune file
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barnevillais or Barnevillaises.Inhabitants of Calvados
Geography Barneville-la-Bertran is located north of the Pays d'Auge some 6 km south-west of Honfleur, 15 km south by south-east of Le Havre (across the Seine Estuary) and 10 km north-east of Deauville. Access to the commune is by the D62 from Pennedepie in the north which passes through the north of the commune and continues east to Équemauville. The D279 branches from the D288 south of the commune - just east of Deauville – Normandie Airport - and passes north through the village and joins the D62 just east of the commune. The commune is mostly farmland.
Toponymy Barneville was called Barnavilla in 1062: from the Scandinavian antroponym BiarnAlbert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963 or BarniRené Lepelley, Etymological Dictionary of commune names in Normandy, Éditions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau, 1996 bnf 36174448w, p. 59 and the Latin villa giving the meaning "rural domain". Bertran is the family name of the lords of the area in the Middle Ages.Community of communes of Pays de Honfleur - Barneville-la-Bertran , consulted on 20 April 2012
On 6 November 1995 the commune of Barneville officially changed its name to Barneville-la-Bertran.Decree of 6 November 1995
History Barneville-la-Bertran appears as Barneville-la-Bertrand on the 1750 Cassini Map and as Barneville on the 1790 version.
Administration
List of Successive MayorsList of Mayors of France
From To Name 1790 1792 Léonard Joseph Chauffer de Barneville 1792 1795 François Trembley 1800 1811 Pierre Charles Coulon 1811 1830 Alexandre Naguet de Saint-Georges 1830 1840 Jean Charles Casimir Langin 1840 1846 Jean Pierre Canterel 1846 1848 Jean Jacques Lebey 1848 1849 Elie Paumier 1849 1855 Jean Jacques Lebey 1850 1883 Amand Constant Rufin 1995 2001 Jean Pierre Aubert 2001 2026Reelection 2014: Barneville-la-Bertran (14600) - Municipales 2014, Ouest-France, consulted on 16 June 2014 Jean-François Bernard
The municipal council is made up of 11 members including the Mayor and two deputies.art L. 2121-2 of the General Code of Collective Territories .
Demography
Culture and heritage
Civil heritage The commune has two buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:
The Manoir des Vallées (12th century)Ministry of Culture, Mérimée The Chateau of Barneville Park (1873)Ministry of Culture, Mérimée
Religious heritage
The Church of Saint John the Baptist is flanked by a quadrangular tower and is registered as an historical monument.Ministry of Culture, Mérimée
Notable people linked to the commune
Jean Doublet (1655 - 1728 at Barneville), pirate. Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1651 at Barneville - 1705), French writer of fairy tales. Françoise Sagan (1935-2004), writer, lived in the Breuil Manor before Lucien and Sacha Guitry. Died in hospital at Équemauville on 24 September 2004. Her body remained in her manor before being buried in Lot where she was born.
See also Communes of the Calvados department
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