Péguilhan

Commune in Occitania, France

(2020–2026) Céline Laurenties Barrere^[1]Area23.58 km² (9.10 sq mi)Population258 • Density11/km² (28/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation218–345 m (715–1,132 ft)
(avg. 347 m or 1,138 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Péguilhan is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France in the historical region of Gascony. On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Lunax was merged into Péguilhan.^[3]

Péguilhan has far-reaching views towards the Pyrenees. It is surrounded by woodland and open countryside and a mixture of arable and livestock farming. Some houses in the area have been bought by British incomers, although the majority in recent times have been Dutch and German.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	313	—
1968	334	+6.7%
1975	259	−22.5%
1982	250	−3.5%
1990	232	−7.2%
1999	221	−4.7%
2004	222	+0.5%
2009	241	+8.6%
2014	218	−9.5%

Personalities

It was possibly the birthplace of Aimeric de Peguilhan, a medieval troubadour, although this is debated.

Geography

The river Gesse flows northwards through the commune towards the market town of Boulogne-sur-Gesse; the Gimone forms most its western border.

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  Interior of the church
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  Château de Villeneuve

Literature

Péguilhan is the setting for Martin Calder's travel memoir A Summer in Gascony, about life on a farm with a local Gascon family, centred on the inn at the end of the village. The book is set in the early 1990s and was published in 2008 by Nicholas Brealey publishing.^[4]

See also

• Communes of the Haute-Garonne department

References