Vaux-sur-Aure

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Commune in Normandy, France

Coat of arms

Location of Vaux-sur-Aure

(2020–2026) Benoît Demoulins^[1]Area

7.60 km² (2.93 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

291 • Density38/km² (99/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

14732 /14400

Elevation19–58 m (62–190 ft)
(avg. 33 m or 108 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vaux-sur-Aure (French pronunciation: [vo syʁ oʁ] ^ⓘ, literally Vaux on Aure) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

The Barons de Gratot (Argouges) resided at the Château de Gratot in Vaux-sur-Aure. According to the French Wikipedia a legend is that a Lord of Argouges met a Fairy woman who agreed to be his wife provided he never spoke the word "Mort" [death] which was considered profane language; however he spoke it and the Fairy vanished; this legend is associated with both Château de Gratot and the Château de Argouges at Argouges.^[3]

Coat of arms of the Barons de Gratot (Argouges)
Château de Argouges in Vaux-sur-Aure.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	265	—
1968	250	−5.7%
1975	296	+18.4%
1982	318	+7.4%
1990	324	+1.9%
1999	344	+6.2%
2008	316	−8.1%

International relations

Vaux-sur-Aure has international relations with the city of Nagasaki, Japan, since 2005. It was a sister city of Sotome, now a subdivision of Nagasaki, since 1978.^[4]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ (A variation of this legend is found in "Ripley's Believe It or Not" (volume) V .pp.64-65)
^ International Exchange Nagasaki