Lagarde, Ariège

Infobox Commune de France|nomcommune=Lagarde


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Lagarde is a village and commune in the Ariège "département" of south-western France. As of 1999 the village had a population of 194 [ [http://www.recensement.insee.fr/RP99/rp99/co_navigation.co_page?nivgeo=C&codgeo=09150&theme=ALL&typeprod=ALL&lang=FR&quelcas=LISTE Lagarde at the] INSEE] .

History

On May 25, 1969 the commune of Lagarde was struck by a tornado of the F3 type. It destroyed nearby hamlets and transportation in the village and the surrounding area. A few hours later in the department of Aude the tornado devastated the village of Leuc. Such a wave of powerful tornadoes is rare in France.

Places of note

Chateau

The Chateau de Lagarde is an imposing medieval building constructed in the 11th century with the first square tower (1063-1065) by Ramire 1st of Navarre king of Aragon and count of Barcelona. Between the 1176 and 1180 the chateau developed with 4 square towers and with a rectangular entry with a door made out of wood, a drawbridge and ditch at the foot of the walls.

In the middle of the beautiful paved yard is a well which is 62 meters depth and 2 meters in diameter cut with stone 1.20 metres thick. Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester allotted the village of Lagarde and its Castle to Guy Ier de Lévis, lieutenant of his army, in 1212. This was conducted after Simon de Montfort convened at Pamiers in a general meeting of nobles, prelates and noted middle-class men, where they drew up a 46 article administration doctrine of the place. It was ratified by the Treaty of Paris and signed on April 12, 1229 on the square of Notre-Dame.

Demographics

ImageSize = width:250 height:200 PlotArea = left:40 right:10 top:10 bottom:20 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal AlignBars = justify Colors = id:gray1 value:gray(0.9) DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:1960 till:2010 ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:1960 PlotData = bar:360 color:gray1 width:1 from:start till:end bar:240 color:gray1 from:start till:end bar:120 color:gray1 from:start till:end bar:0 color:gray1 LineData = layer:front points:(48,143)(84,121) color:blue width:2 #1962 tot 1968. Inwonertal 1962: 261 1968: 213 points:(84,121)(100,107) color:blue width:2 #1975: 185 points:(100,107)(128,104) color:blue width:2 #1982: 177 points:(128,104)(160,101) color:blue width:2 #1990: 172 points:(160,101)(196,112) color:blue width:2 #1999: 194

References

ee also

*Communes of the Ariège department