Authe | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Authe.svg |
Arrondissement: | Vouziers |
Canton: | Vouziers |
Insee: | 08033 |
Postal Code: | 08240 |
Mayor: | Sylvie Lefort[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CC Argonne Ardennaise |
Coordinates: | 49.46°N 4.8797°W |
Elevation M: | 172 |
Elevation Min M: | 164 |
Elevation Max M: | 225 |
Area Km2: | 9.47 |
Authe (in French pronounced as /ot/) is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France.
Authe is located some 45 km east by south-east of Rethel and 20 km north-east of Vouziers. Access to the commune is by road D12 from Brieulles-sur-Bar in the north which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues south to join the D947 south of the commune. The commune consists entirely of farmland.[2]
The Bar river forms the south-western border of the commune as it flows north-west to follow the Canal des Ardennes to join the Meuse near Vrigne-Meuse. The Ruisseau de Saint-Pierremont flows from the north-east of the commune past the village and joins the Bar on the south-western border of the commune.[2]
List of Successive Mayors[3]
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Authois or Authoises in French.[4]
The commune has one religious building registered as an historical monument: