Chaudardes

Chaudardes
Chaudardes
Administration
Country	France
Region	Picardy
Department	Aisne
Arrondissement	Laon
Canton	Neufchâtel-sur-Aisne
Intercommunality	Champagne Picarde
Mayor	Patricia Delattre (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	47–78 m (154–256 ft) (avg. 80 m/260 ft)
Land area1	4.7 km2 (1.8 sq mi)
Population2	85  (2008)
- Density	18 /km2 (47 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	02171/ 02160
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 49°23′33″N 3°47′32″E / 49.3925°N 3.792222°E / 49.3925; 3.792222

Chaudardes is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.

Population

Historical population of Chaudardes

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
73	62	54	46	68	82	85

Sights

• The church, which is a registered historic monument.

• The "lavoir", a public place where the women used to wash their clothes and which is also a "monument historique" because of its Blessed Virgin Mary statue whose color is still visible here and there

• The chapel, which is behind the lavoir and which can no longer be visited (stones fall)

• A stature of the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus on the village square, near the church

• The graveyard

• The Aisne River and the ruins of a bridge which was designed to link Chaudardes with Concevreux, a village on the other side of the river (this bridge has been destroyed during the World War I)

See also

• Communes of the Aisne department

References

• INSEE