Saint-Jouin-de-Blavou

Commune in Normandy, France

(2020–2026) Nicolas Laforet^[1]Area17.71 km² (6.84 sq mi)Population298 • Density17/km² (44/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation152–207 m (499–679 ft)
(avg. 187 m or 614 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Jouin-de-Blavou (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒwɛ̃ də blavu] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Orne department in the Normandy region of north-western France.^[3] Its inhabitants are known as Jovinians.

Demography

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 692 —     1800 803 +2.15% 1806 803 +0.00% 1821 864 +0.49% 1836 934 +0.52% 1841 884 −1.09% 1846 900 +0.36% 1851 956 +1.21% 1856 892 −1.38% 1861 899 +0.16% 1866 838 −1.40% 1872 848 +0.20% 1876 845 −0.09% 1881 798 −1.14% 1886 696 −2.70% 1891 668 −0.82% 1896 632 −1.10% 1901 599 −1.07%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 577 −0.75% 1911 524 −1.91% 1921 478 −0.91% 1926 489 +0.46% 1931 426 −2.72% 1936 447 +0.97% 1946 461 +0.31% 1954 441 −0.55% 1962 474 +0.91% 1968 398 −2.87% 1975 322 −2.98% 1982 284 −1.78% 1990 302 +0.77% 1999 309 +0.25% 2007 285 −1.01% 2012 306 +1.43% 2017 282 −1.62%
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Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE[5]

Places of interest

• Church of Saint-Jouin (sixteenth century)
• The manor house of Blavou (sixteenth century) and its bread oven, classified as a Monument historique^[6]
• The château de Chanceaux (sixteenth century) and its chapel of Saint-Marc (seventeenth century), also classified as historic monuments^[7]

See also

• Communes of the Orne department

References