Chaumont-Porcien

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Commune in Grand Est, France

Coat of arms

Location of Chaumont-Porcien

(2020–2026) Guy Camus^[1]Area

35.97 km² (13.89 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

509 • Density14/km² (37/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

08113 /08220

Elevation100–240 m (330–790 ft)
(avg. 137 m or 449 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Chaumont-Porcien (French pronunciation: [ʃomɔ̃ pɔʁsjɛ̃]) is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	577	—
1968	625	+8.3%
1975	569	−9.0%
1982	478	−16.0%
1990	479	+0.2%
1999	473	−1.3%
2008	453	−4.2%

History

After his travel to the tumb of Jesus, in the 6th century, Berthauld, son of an Irish king, travelled to France^{[citation needed]}. When he arrived at the forest of Chaumont-Porcien (which no longer exists), he saw the "Bald Mount", called like this because there were no trees on it, whereas the forest covered all the rest of the landscape. Berthauld became Saint-Berthauld, because he spread the God's word in an pagan area. After his dead, an abbey was built. Destroyed many times, there is nothing left. Thanks to Isidore Fressancourt, a chapel was built in 1876, on the "Bald Mount", still standing, and a way to discover histories and legends of "Porcien".

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.