Estos

Estos is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

Hydrography

The grounds of the commune are sprinkled by the Gave d' Oloron, and its affluents, the brooks the Auronce, the Escou, Laberou and by the tributary of this one, the brook of Cambetade.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Ledeuix in north
Oloron-Holy-Marie in the south

Toponymy

The toponym Estos appears in the forms Stos (1368, notaries of Lucq), Astos (1402, censier of Béarn) and Feels Berthomiu d' Estos (1434, notaries of Oloron).

History

Paul Raymond note which the commune counted a laic abbey, vassal of the Viscount of Béarn.
In 1385, Estos depended on the Bailliage of Oloron and counted 4 fires.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to three inter-commune structures:

the Community of communes of Piedmont Oloronais
trade union AEP Estos-Ledeuix-Verdets
departmental trade union of electrification

Demography

2005: provisional population of INSEE.

Economy

The activity is mainly agricultural (mixed-farming, breeding, pastures).

Culture and inheritance

Local fair at the beginning of July

Civil inheritance

In the northern suburbs oloronaise, Estos has a manor of the XVIIIe century when lived and died the singer Pierre de Jélyotte, born in Lasseube in 1719. It became the whooping-cough of the court of Louis XV, where it made known and to appreciate, (following the example aspois Cyprien Despourrins, earlier), Pyrenean songs.

Religious heritage

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

Personalities related to the commune

Pierre de Jélyotte is a Chanteur and Compositeur French born with Lasseube on April 13rd, 1713 and dead on October 12th, 1797 with Estos.

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