Salies-de-Bearn
The name comes from its naturally occurring saline water (Gascon salias for Standard Occitan salinas). During the expanded, pre-liberation occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Salies was on the border between the occupied zone and the free zone.
Between September 1941 and the summer of 1942, Jean Anouilh wrote his famous adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, Antigone in the comparatively idyllic setting of Salies-de-Béarn, relieved of the invader's presence, the evening curfews and the deprivations of Paris. The play premiered in Occupied Paris in February 1944.
Salies-de-Béarn served as the setting for the writer Trevanian's novel, The Summer of Katya. In the book, it was renamed Salies-les-Bains.
An account of living and working in Salies-de-Béarn in the late sixties is given by Clive Jackson in his book Footloose in France.
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 5,582 | — |
| 1975 | 5,355 | −0.59% |
| 1982 | 4,957 | −1.10% |
| 1990 | 4,974 | +0.04% |
| 1999 | 4,759 | −0.49% |
| 2007 | 4,803 | +0.12% |
| 2012 | 4,854 | +0.21% |
| 2017 | 4,638 | −0.91% |
| Source: INSEE | ||
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ INSEE commune file
- ^ Adamson, John, and Clive Jackson, Footloose in France, Cambridge: John Adamson, 2023, ISBN 978-1-898565-18-5.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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