Pargny-la-Dhuys

Commune in Hauts-de-France, France

(2020–2026) Gaëlle Vaudé^[1]Area12.66 km² (4.89 sq mi)Population171 • Density14/km² (35/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation109–221 m (358–725 ft)
(avg. 145 m or 476 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Pargny-la-Dhuys (French pronunciation: [paʁɲi la dɥis]) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	206	—
1968	224	+8.7%
1975	166	−25.9%
1982	141	−15.1%
1990	156	+10.6%
1999	158	+1.3%
2008	164	+3.8%

Sights

The commune's church is St. Martin Church, which has Gothic arches and a slender belfry.

Pargny-la-Dhuys is a former forge that was built on an iron mine belonging to the County of Braine in the fifteenth century .

The last lord of the commune was the Count de la Tour du Pin.

This is the location of the catchment of the Dhuis [fr]: an aqueduct of 131 km built between 1863 and 1865 that now supplies the city of Paris and the park at Marne-la-Vallee with water.

See also

• Communes of the Aisne department

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