Boulaur

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

Boulaur
Commune
Abbey
Location of Boulaur
Boulaur
Boulaur
Coordinates: 43°32′30″N 0°46′29″E
CountryFrance
RegionOccitania
DepartmentGers
ArrondissementAuch
CantonAstarac-Gimone
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Antoine Faure[1]
Area
1
9.03 km2 (3.49 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[2]
186
 • Density21/km2 (53/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
32061 /32450
Elevation162–285 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
Boulaur and its surrounding communes

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793346—    
1800228−34.1%
1806374+64.0%
1821438+17.1%
1831449+2.5%
1841438−2.4%
1846433−1.1%
1851412−4.8%
1856443+7.5%
1861431−2.7%
1866473+9.7%
1872422−10.8%
1876431+2.1%
1886379−12.1%
1881408+7.7%
1891395−3.2%
1896345−12.7%
YearPop.±%
1901330−4.3%
1906296−10.3%
1911299+1.0%
1921247−17.4%
1926227−8.1%
1931208−8.4%
1936197−5.3%
1946219+11.2%
1954203−7.3%
1962133−34.5%
1968163+22.6%
1975154−5.5%
1982140−9.1%
1990126−10.0%
1999128+1.6%
2008151+18.0%

Abbey

St Mary's Abbey of Boulaur, a former priory of the Order of Fontevraud, is a monastery of Cistercian nuns. It was founded in the 12th century and was originally a Fontevrist monastery that was abolished during the French Revolution. Cistercian nuns reinstated it at the end of the 19th century, and were expelled under the Associations Act of 1901. Monastic life was definitively restored in 1949. In 2011 the community had about thirty nuns.

See also

References
  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
  2. "Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.

Further reading
  • 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


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