La Flotte

La Flotte (French pronunciation: ​[la flɔt]; sometimes locally La Flotte-en-Re), is a commune on the Île de Ré off the western coast of France, administratively part of the department of Charente-Maritime within the larger Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

For the place in Ivory Coast, see Grand-Béréby.
La Flotte
Commune
The harbour in La Flotte
Coat of arms
Location of La Flotte
La Flotte
La Flotte
Coordinates: 46°11′16″N 1°19′28″W
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentCharente-Maritime
ArrondissementLa Rochelle
CantonÎle de Ré
IntercommunalityÎle de Ré
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Jean-Paul Heraudeau[1]
Area
1
12.32 km2 (4.76 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[2]
2,785
 • Density230/km2 (590/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
17161 /17630
Elevation0–17 m (0–56 ft)
(avg. 8 m or 26 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

It is the largest municipality on the Île de Ré by area, and the second largest by population, second to Sainte-Marie-de-Ré on the southern tip of the island.

La Flotte was declared one of the most beautiful villages in France by the eponymous independent tourism organization Les Plus Beaux Villages de France, and since 2011, the town has been a part of the departmental government's "Stone and Water Villages" tourism initiative to promote notable coastal and waterfront locales (i.e., where the stone (city) meets the water (sea, river etc.).

Geography

The commune of La Flotte contains the town proper and a marina. The shoreline is bordered by small cliffs, and is home to Arnéult Beach, an artificial beach that has to be re-sanded each year.

Town Planning

La Flotte is an urban municipality  ,  . It is in fact part of dense or intermediate density municipalities, within the meaning of the municipal density grid of INSEE  ,  . It belongs to the urban unit of La Flotte , an intra-departmental agglomeration grouping together 2 municipalities  and 4,993 inhabitants in 2017, of which it is a city-center  ,  .

In addition, the municipality is part of the attraction area of La Flotte , of which it is the central municipality  . This area, which includes 4 municipalities, is categorized in areas with less than 50,000 inhabitants  ,  .

The municipality, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean , is also a coastal municipality within the meaning of the law ofJanuary 3, 1986, known as the coastal law  . From then on, specific town planning provisions apply in order to preserve natural spaces, sites, landscapes and the ecological balance of the coast , such as for example the principle of inconstructibility, outside urbanized areas, on the strip. coastline of 100 meters, or more if the local urban plan provides for it  ,  .

Land Use

The zoning of the municipality, as reflected in the database European occupation biophysical soil Corine Land Cover (CLC), is marked by the importance of the agricultural land (47% in 2018), nevertheless down from 1990 (55.1%). The detailed breakdown in 2018 is as follows: forests (34.3%), permanent crops (18.3%), urbanized areas (17.9%), heterogeneous agricultural areas (15.9%), arable land (9, 1%), meadows (3.7%), artificial green spaces, non-agricultural (0.5%), coastal wetlands (0.4%)  .

The IGN also provides an online tool to compare the evolution over time of land use in the municipality (or in territories at different scales). Several eras are accessible as aerial maps or photos: the Cassini map ( xviii th  century), the map of Staff (1820-1866) and the current period (1950 to present)  .

Economic Activity
  • Agriculture, asparagus, potatoes, vine.
  • Oyster farming, boating, fishing.
  • Tourism. Accommodation: six hotels, five campsites, guest houses, seasonal rentals.

History

the November 6, 1627, the regiment of the French Guards attacks the English troops, of George Villiers duke of Buckingham , who besiege the citadel of Saint-Martin-de-Ré , defended by Jean du Caylar de Saint-Bonnet, marquis de Toiras . After causing the English assault to fail, the French Guards retreated through the town of La Flotte, burned three English vessels there in the port and returned to Fort La Prée  .

Gustave Dechézeaux's native village (October 8, 1760 - January 17, 1794) . Member of the National Convention . Unjustly accused, he was guillotined at Rochefort then rehabilitated by the Convention onApril 18, 1795.

Government
List of successive mayors
Period Identity Label Quality
[display]

List of mayors from 1790 to 1947

1947 1952 Eugene Chauffour trader
1952 1959 Pierre Brochard retired officer
1959 1971 Guy Margotteau UNR retired director of overseas France
1971 1977 Raymond Poncet oyster farmer
1977 May 2020 Leon Gendre UMP then LR hotelier, retired restaurateur, former general councilor
May 2020 In progress Jean-Paul Héraudeau
The missing data must be completed.

* For 1855, municipal councilor acting as mayor.

** For the year 1870, from 21st of October to July, (Fourgnaud, Brin, Margotteau, Biret) municipal commission

2008 Municipal Elections
1 st  round of 2008 elections
List driven by Number of applicants % Voice (average of lists) Elected
Leon Gendre 23 52.6% 1059 23
Jean-Paul Héraudeau 23 47.4% 953

2001 Municipal Elections
1 st  round of the 2001 election
List driven by Number of applicants % Voice (average of lists) Elected
Leon Gendre 23 100.0% 1188 23

1995 Municipal Elections
1 st  round of 1995 elections
List driven by Number of applicants % Voice (average of lists) Elected
Leon Gendre 23 52.0% 824 15
Raymond Grassineau 23 48.0% 760 8

1989 Municipal Elections
1 st  round of 1989 elections
List driven by Number of applicants % Voice (average of lists) Elected
Leon Gendre 49.4% 735
James roy 27.0% 402
Menanteau 23.6% 350

Demographics

Its inhabitants are called the Flottais and the Flottaises  .

Main article: Demography of Charente-Maritime . The town hall of La Flotte. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses carried out in the municipality since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the municipalities are published annually by Insee . The census is now based on an annual collection of information, successively concerning all the municipal territories over a period of five years. For municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey covering the entire population is carried out every five years, the legal populations of the intervening years being estimated by interpolation or extrapolation . For the municipality, the first exhaustive census falling under the new system was carried out in 2006  .

In 2018, the town had 2,759 inhabitants  , down 4.76% compared to 2013 ( Charente-Maritime  : + 2.13%, France excluding Mayotte  : +1.78%).

Evolution of the population   [  edit  ]
1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851
4,400 3 322 2,847 2,556 2,557 2 411 2 429 2,462 2 422
Evolution of the population   [  edit  ] , continued (1)
1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896
2 352 2386 2,450 2,315 2395 2389 2 381 2,447 2,373
Evolution of the population   [  edit  ] , continued (2)
1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954
2 267 2,096 2 118 1,813 1,629 1475 1,396 1,260 1,393
Evolution of the population   [  edit  ] , continued (3)
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2016
1,578 1,681 1,737 1 878 2 452 2,737 2,907 2,861 2 754
Evolution of the population   [  edit  ] , continued (4)
2018 - - - - - - - -
2 759 - - - - - - - -

From 1962 to 1999: population without double counting  ; for the following dates: municipal population .

(Sources: Ldh / EHESS / Cassini until 1999  then Insee from 2006  )

Histogram of demographic development

It forms with Saint-Martin-de-Ré an urban area - called urban unit of Fleet - which brings together 5,531 people in 2008 and ranks 11 th  rank in the department of Charente-Maritime .

Culture and Heritage

Places and Monuments
  • The Port: it was a commercial port for wine and salt, then a fishing port. It is essentially a marina today. Its capacity is 200 berths on pontoons and 150 berths in organized moorings. The boats celebrate during the "night shadows" sound and light and during the harbor festival in May of each year.
  • The ruins of the Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-Ré (between Rivedoux-Plage and La Flotte). The whole has been classified as a “historic monument” sinceMay 21, 1990.
  • The Fort La Pree built in 1625 and partially destroyed by Vauban in 1685 .
  • The Medieval Market.
  • La Maison du Platin, museum fishing, shore fishing, oyster farming, the rétaise flottaise and life (photo collections from the early xx th  century and models).
  • The Church of St. Catherine Fleet (or "Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria") dating from the xv th  century. Listed, in part, as a Historic Monument, in 1988  .

The village is one of the most beautiful villages in France .

Historical Figures from La Flotte
  • Nicolas Martiau (1591-1657), Huguenot settler, ancestor of George Washington and General Lee .
  • Denis Goguet (1704-1778), merchant and shipowner
  • Gustave Dechézeaux (October 8, 1760 in La Flotte-en-Ré - January 17, 1794in Rochefort), French politician. Member of the National Convention , sentenced to death "for having conspired against the Republic", guillotined, then rehabilitated by this same Convention.
  • Jacques Gilles Henri Goguet (1767-1794), general
  • Léon Gendre, general councilor of the canton of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (reelected in 2011), president of the Community of communes of the island of Ré from 1993 to 2008, mayor of La Flotte since 1977, ex-restaurateur (creator of the restaurant Le Richelieu).
  • M me Tencin , salonnière and woman of letters who had Grainetière between 1735 and 1749.
  • Roger Barberot (1915-2002) -, Companion of the Liberation by decree ofMarch 7, 1941, the most decorated sailor in France in 1944, owned a property there near the market.

Heraldry
Coat of Arms of La Flotte

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.


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