Les Abrets


Les Abrets is a former commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Les Abrets-en-Dauphiné.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Abrésiens or Abrésiennes

Geography

Les Abrets is located some 30 km west of Chambery and 25 km east of Bourgoin-Jallieu. The commune can be accessed on the D1075 road from the north-west continuing through the commune and the village to La Bâtie-Divisin in the south. The D1006 highway comes from La Tour-du-Pin in the west and intersects the D1075 in the centre of the village then continues to Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin in the east. There is also the D142E road from the village going north-east, the D592 which goes north from the village continuing to Chimilin, and the D142 going north-west to Fitilieu. A railway passes through the commune from west to east with a station just outside the western edge of the commune. The urban area of Les Abrets covers a large portion of the commune with a belt of forest running north to south through the centre of the commune. With some forested areas in the east of the commune and some forest in the east, the balance of the land area is farmland.
The Bievre stream flows south down the eastern edge of the commune. Other streams flow near the village and to the south.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Toponymy

The term Abrets comes from Albrez Albretum or Arbreta. This wooded area was given to the "Poor Knights of Christ" in about 1124 who then became the Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem in 1128, known under the name of the Templars.

Heraldry

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Les Abrets
FromToName
17921804Paul Morand
18041816Louis Boissier
18161830Jacques Novel
18301834Louis Boissier
18341837Clément Morand
18371864Jacques Novel
18641870Joseph Comte
18701871Félix Jamet
18711876Pierre Landier
18761884Joseph Badin
18841889Benoît Orcel
18891893Elisée Deschaux
18931895Clément Humbert
18951901Firmin Rabatel
19011904Hippolyte Falquet
19041918Philippe Barrier
19181919Antoine Fougier
19191935Eloi Cuchet

;Mayors from 1935
FromToNamePartyPosition
19351959Pierre Collomb
19591965Maurice Bernard
19651986Jean Janin
19861992Maurice Gaillard
19922008Jean-Paul Gau
20082014Jean-Pierre ChabertUMP
20142020François Boucly

Population

In 2010 the commune had 3,455 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.

Sites and Monuments

;The Zoo Picture Gallery

Notable People linked to the commune