Faverolles, Aisne
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
![]() | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Faverolles | |
---|---|
![]() The town hall of Faverolles | |
Coordinates: 49°13′12″N 3°10′35″E / 49.22°N 3.1764°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Hauts-de-France |
Department | Aisne |
Arrondissement | Soissons |
Canton | Villers-Cotterêts |
Intercommunality | Retz-en-Valois |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Christian Poteaux[1] |
Area 1 | 13.79 km2 (5.32 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 340 |
• Density | 25/km2 (64/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 02302 /02600 |
Elevation | 67–177 m (220–581 ft) (avg. 140 m or 460 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Faverolles (French pronunciation: [favʁɔl] ) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Literature
Faverolles is the village in which the protagonist of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Jean Valjean lived before he was arrested.
Here is a quote from Victor Hugo's novel:
"Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a tree-pruner at Faverolles."
The village of Faverolles is situated in the Department of Aisne, in the region of Hauts-de-France, in the country of France. An area of the department of Aisne was historically part of the region of Brie. This northern part of Brie was also called 'Brie pouilleuse'.
Population
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
---|---|---|
1968 | 361 | — |
1975 | 283 | −3.42% |
1982 | 265 | −0.93% |
1990 | 308 | +1.90% |
1999 | 319 | +0.39% |
2007 | 343 | +0.91% |
2012 | 321 | −1.32% |
2017 | 317 | −0.25% |
Source: INSEE[3] |
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Faverolles (Aisne).
Categories:
- Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas
- Pages using the Phonos extension
- CS1 French-language sources (fr)
- Use dmy dates from August 2023
- Geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Coordinates on Wikidata
- Pages using infobox settlement with image map1 but not image map
- Pages with French IPA
- Pages including recorded pronunciations
- Commons category link is on Wikidata
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Communes of Aisne
- Aisne communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
- All stub articles
- Soissons arrondissement geography stubs
- Pages using the Kartographer extension