Les Bessons

Les Bessons
Les Bessons
Location within Languedoc-Roussillon region Les Bessons
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Lozère
Arrondissement	Mende
Canton	Saint-Chély-d'Apcher
Intercommunality	Terres d'Apcher
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	René Tardieu
Area1	23.49 km2 (9.07 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	448
• Density	19/km2 (49/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	48025 / 48200
Elevation	972–1,274 m (3,189–4,180 ft) (avg. 1,050 m or 3,440 ft)
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.

Les Bessons is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	303	—
1800	420	+38.6%
1806	553	+31.7%
1821	414	−25.1%
1831	481	+16.2%
1836	531	+10.4%
1841	545	+2.6%
1846	481	−11.7%
1851	544	+13.1%
1856	516	−5.1%
1861	451	−12.6%
1866	508	+12.6%
1872	507	−0.2%
1876	548	+8.1%
1881	535	−2.4%
1886	523	−2.2%
1891	511	−2.3%
1896	524	+2.5%
1901	526	+0.4%
1906	543	+3.2%
1911	516	−5.0%
1921	507	−1.7%
1926	478	−5.7%
1931	459	−4.0%
1936	401	−12.6%
1946	363	−9.5%
1954	356	−1.9%
1962	355	−0.3%
1968	342	−3.7%
1975	325	−5.0%
1982	335	+3.1%
1990	273	−18.5%
1999	361	+32.2%
2006	437	+21.1%
2009	448	+2.5%

See also

• Communes of the Lozère department

References

• INSEE statistics