Sheep farming did not lead to the prosperity hoped for and wine growing, which was badly hit by the phylloxera crisis during the closing decades of the 19th century, has had to compete with other more established areas of France. Legend tells of Andéol's burial by Amycia Eucheria Tullia. The Rhône corridor is very straight on the right bank which runs almost at the foot of the Vivarais plateaus, leaving tiny plains where the rivers from the Vivarais descend to the Rhône. It was later held in fief by the Counts of Toulouse, who lost it to the French crown in 1229. The Ardèche river flows as far as the Rhône, following a course generally to the south east. Président du Comice Agricole du canton du Lude. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ardèche&oldid=977933506, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox settlement with bad settlement type, Articles containing Occitan-language text, Articles containing Arpitan-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2008, Articles with French-language sources (fr), Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The plateaus of the Haut-Vivarais and the Cévennes, This page was last edited on 11 September 2020, at 21:13. In the southern interior with the town of Aubenas and the valley of the Ardèche river, the population of the cantons of Villeneuve-de-Berg and of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc grow at four times the speed of the departmental average. The climate here is also fairly extreme: snow, without being thick, is frequent, variations of temperature accentuated by the fact of the strong cold winds that blow. Louis XIV responded by dispatching Dragoons, who brutalised the population by "dragonnades", destroying a number of communities. Suite à l’acquisition de Le Blanc de Nicolaÿ en 1998 il se consacre davantage à la politique et devient Conseiller Régional de 1998 à 2014 et Président de la Commission Economique du Conseil Régional de 2002 à 2004. At that time, the Vivarais had over 75 Protestant churches and five fortified strongholds with permanent garrisons. The President of the Departmental Council has been Laurent Ughetto of the Socialist Party (PS) since 2017. In 1284, with the Cistercian Abbey of Marzan, Philip IV established Villeneuve de Berg, and by the treaty of 10 July 1305 Philip IV of France obliged the bishops of Vivarais to admit the sovereignty of the Kings of France over all their temporal domain. En Juin 2014 la liste de Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ où figurent également Fabienne Labrette-Ménager et Fabien Lorne a obtenu le soutien de François Fillon à la commission de l’UMP. Présentation de M. Jean Pierre Vogel, sénateur de la Sarthe (Pays de la Loire) [1] In 430, Auxonius transferred the see to Viviers as a result of the problems suffered at its previous site in Alba Augusta. The high plateau and the mountainous areas as far as Privas continue to lose its young population (the median age of the population as a whole is growing more elderly as a result of the weakness of the power of this region to attract new permanent inhabitants). As a result, one-fifth of the Protestant population of the Vivarais emigrated. Named after the river of the same name, the Ardèche was one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. [citation needed] The river has the largest canyon in Europe and the caves that dot the cliffs—which go as high as 300 metres (1,000 feet)—are known for signs of prehistoric inhabitants (arrowheads and flint knives are often found). Hydrographic resources are dominated by these torrential streams and rainfall is characterised by the frequent importance of summer showers, with climate much less extreme than that of the mountains to the west. Suite à la promulgation de la loi sur le non-cumul des mandats, Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ a mis fin à son mandat de maire au 1er octobre 2017 ainsi que de vice-président de la communauté de communes. Within a distance of a few kilometres is the volcanic lake of Issarlès (92 ha, 5 km in circumference, 108 m in depth). Each year the Ardeche hosts one of France's biggest road cycling events, L'Ardéchoise, with 16,000 entrants participating in 2011. As a result, six blast furnaces were established, but they were only moderately profitable, the last closing at Pouzain in 1929. The transition zone descending from the mountains (1,200 m) to the valley of the Rhône (300 to 400 m), is the plateau region. Line: 208 Site officiel du sénateur Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ / droits réservés @ljdenicolay, © 2023 par Simone Morrin. This Karst region is formed of calcareous limestones, where the streams flow in steep-sided valleys separated by sharp crests. Suite à la promulgation de la loi sur le non-cumul des mandats, Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ a mis fin à son mandat de maire au 1er octobre 2017 ainsi que de vice-président de la communauté de communes. At the 200th anniversary in 1983, some 50 hot air balloons took part with the first historic flight reenacted with people dressed in period costume. For example, le Cheylard and Lamastre have recently lost 300 and 250 inhabitants respectively. Today, the population numbers 309,000 (compared to 390,000 in 1860). It is built of basalt which extends in length 18 km in the direction of the Rhône, and at its widest is a maximum 11 km in width. It covers an area of 5,550 square kilometres, a size that hides the great diversity from place to place in terms of relief, the absence of access to rapid transport (unique in France) and the difficulties in transport from one part of the Ardeche to another, above all in winter.