Louvie-Juzon

See also: Louvie (homonymy)

Louvie-Juzon is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

The village is located in Vallée of Ossau on Right Bank of the Gave d' Ossau.
The district of Hourat Fag is crossed by the brooks which form the Béez, affluent of the Gave of Pau. The pastures of mountain of Jaout and the wood of Glacère, in the east, belong to the Vallée of Ouzom.

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by affluents of the Gave of Pau:
  • the Béez and its affluents:
    • the brook Castéra
    • the brook of Cousi
    • the cau of Heus and its affluent:
      • the caude Aygue
    • the brook of Hont Lane
    • the brook Isou
    • the brook of Lacot and its affluent:
      • the brook of Sègue
    • the brook Lestarrès (11,4 km in France) and its affluents:
      • the brook Bourdiala and its affluent:
        • the brook Artigau
      • the brook of Ramasaugue
      • the brook of Ombratiou and its affluent:
        • the brook of the fountain of Mesplé
    • the brook of Moncaut (2,8 km) and its affluents:
      • the brook Abeurade
      • the brook of Moncaut (1,1km)
  • the Gave d' Oloron
  • the Ouzom

Localities and hamlets

  • Hourat

Communes bordering

Toponymy

The toponym Louvie-Juzon appears in the forms Luperium (1100, titles of Mifaget), Lobier (1154, titles of Barcelona), Lobierr-Juso (1270, titles of Ossau), Lobiher-Jusoo (1376, military watch of Béarn), Lobier-Jusoo (1385, censier of Béarn), Lobier-Jusson , Lobie-Juso and Loubié (respectively in 1538,1614 and 1675, reformation of Béarn).
The toponym Hourat is mentioned in the form Forat de Lobier-Juson in 1443 in the register of the Court Majour de Béarn

Louvie has a Latin origin and signjfierait field of Lupinus . Juzon is a Gascon word, downstream .

History

In 1385, Louvie-Juzon counted 80 fires and depended on the Bailliage of Ossau.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to six inter-commune structures:
  • SIVOM of the valley of Ossau
  • trade union of the perception of Arudy
  • intercommunity association for the installation of the basins slopes of Béez and Ouzom
  • mixed trade-union of the Lake water Castet
  • trade union of the valley of Ossau
  • trade union of electrification of Bas-Ossau.

The common one belongs to the Pays of Oloron and Haut-Béarn.

Demography

The figure for 2006 is that of the provisional population established by INSEE.

Economy

The economy of the commune is primarily directed towards agriculture and the élevage.
The purity of water of the gave of Ossau allowed the development of the pisciculture.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

  • Houses of XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries

Religious heritage

  • Saint Martin's day Church of XVIe and XVIIe centuries, finally completed in 1890.

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Raymond Orteig, born in 1870 in Louvie-Juzon is an American business man, of French origin, which was at the origin in 1919 Prix Orteig which launched the race to connect New York and Paris by air and without stopover. It is Charles Lindbergh which gained the price in 1927.
  • François Moncla, born on April 1st, 1932 in Louvie-Juzon, is a French player of Rugby to XV.

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