Lestrade-et-Thouels
Commune in Occitanie, France
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Lestrade-et-Thouels (French pronunciation: [lɛstʁad e twɛl]; Occitan: L'Estrada e Toels) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.
Lestrade-et-Thouels | |
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.svg) Coat of arms | |
 Location of Lestrade-et-Thouels | |
  Lestrade-et-Thouels  Lestrade-et-Thouels | |
| Coordinates: 44°03′37″N 2°39′37″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Occitania |
| Department | Aveyron |
| Arrondissement | Millau |
| Canton | Raspes et Lévezou |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Bernard Castanier[1] (LR) |
Area 1 | 42.27 km2 (16.32 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 440 |
| • Density | 10/km2 (27/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 12129 /12430 |
| Elevation | 315–803 m (1,033–2,635 ft) (avg. 720 m or 2,360 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 672 | — |
| 1975 | 612 | −1.33% |
| 1982 | 624 | +0.28% |
| 1990 | 534 | −1.93% |
| 1999 | 454 | −1.79% |
| 2007 | 423 | −0.88% |
| 2012 | 486 | +2.82% |
| 2017 | 493 | +0.29% |
| 2023 | 440 | −1.88% |
| Source: INSEE[3] | ||
Relation to Inspector Lestrade
The village of Lestrade-et-Thouels is considered as a possible origin of the family name "Lestrade", made famous through the character Inspector Lestrade who appears in numerous Sherlock Holmes stories. Arthur Conan Doyle is known to have given the fictional inspector the name of a friend from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a Saint Lucian medical student, Joseph Alexandre Lestrade. The ancestry of Joseph Lestrade is not sufficiently known to establish a certain link between him and the French village.
