Aure is located some 55 km east of Reims and some 20 km south by south-west of Vouziers. The western border of the commune is the border between Ardennes and Marne departments. Access to the commune is by road D6 from Manre in the south-east which passes through the village and continues south-west, changing to the D20 in Marne, to Sommepy-Tahure. The D306 goes north-east from the village to Monthois. The commune is entirely farmland.[3]
The Allin river rises near the village and flows south-east to eventually join the Aisne at Brécy-Brières.[3]
History
Aure is cited in a poem by Louis AragonLe conscrit des cent villages (The conscript of 100 villages) written as an act of intellectual resistance in a clandestine manner in 1943.[4]
Auguste Achile Baudart, Colonel of the 122nd Infantry Regiment of the Line, born in Aure on 16 November 1844 from a farming family, died at Montpellier on 15 December 1898.[8]
^Louis Aragon, Le Conscrit des cent villages, initially published in La Diane française, consulted in Pierre Seghers, The Resistance and its poets: France, 1940-1945, Paris, Seghers, 2004 (2nd edition), ISBN2-232-12242-5, p. 373-375 (in French)