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Boulaur (French pronunciation: ​[bulɔʁ]; Occitan: Bonlau) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

Boulaur
Commune
Cistercian abbey in Boulaur
Location of Boulaur
Boulaur Show map of France Boulaur Show map of Occitanie
Coordinates: 43°32′30″N 0°46′29″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Gers
Arrondissement	Auch
Canton	Astarac-Gimone
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Antoine Faure[1]
Area 1	9.03 km2 (3.49 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	186
• Density	21/km2 (53/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	32061 /32450
Elevation	162–285 m (531–935 ft) (avg. 155 m or 509 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 346 —     1800 228 −34.1% 1806 374 +64.0% 1821 438 +17.1% 1831 449 +2.5% 1841 438 −2.4% 1846 433 −1.1% 1851 412 −4.8% 1856 443 +7.5% 1861 431 −2.7% 1866 473 +9.7% 1872 422 −10.8% 1876 431 +2.1% 1886 379 −12.1% 1881 408 +7.7% 1891 395 −3.2% 1896 345 −12.7%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 330 −4.3% 1906 296 −10.3% 1911 299 +1.0% 1921 247 −17.4% 1926 227 −8.1% 1931 208 −8.4% 1936 197 −5.3% 1946 219 +11.2% 1954 203 −7.3% 1962 133 −34.5% 1968 163 +22.6% 1975 154 −5.5% 1982 140 −9.1% 1990 126 −10.0% 1999 128 +1.6% 2008 151 +18.0%

Abbey

Boulaur Abbey, or St Mary's Abbey, Boulaur (French: Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Boulaur), is a monastery of Cistercian nuns. It was founded in the 12th century as a priory of the Order of Fontevraud that was abolished during the French Revolution. Cistercian nuns reinstated it at the end of the 19th century but were expelled under the Associations Act of 1901 (the Waldeck-Rousseau Law). Monastic life was definitively restored in 1949. In 2011 the community had about 30 nuns.[3] In 2022 they declared their intention to resettle the Trappist Abbey of Notre-Dame des Neiges.[4]

See also

• Communes of the Gers department

References

Further reading

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boulaur.

• Histoire de l'ordre de Fontevrault, 1100-1908; by the Religious of Sainte-Marie-de-Fontevrault-de-Boulaur (afterwards at Vera in Navarre). 3 vols. Auch, 1911–15

На других языках

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- [en] Boulaur

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[ru] Булор

Було́р (фр. Boulaur) — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Юг — Пиренеи. Департамент — Жер. Входит в состав кантона Сарамон. Округ коммуны — Ош.

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