| Avançon | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Avançon.svg |
| Arrondissement: | Rethel |
| Canton: | Château-Porcien |
| Insee: | 08038 |
| Postal Code: | 08300 |
| Mayor: | Yvan Lefevre[1] |
| Term: | 2023 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | Pays Rethélois |
| Coordinates: | 49.4761°N 4.2458°W |
| Elevation M: | 95 |
| Area Km2: | 20.99 |
Avançon (in French pronounced as /avɑ̃sɔ̃/) is a commune in the Ardennes département in the Grand Est region of northern France.
Avançon is located some 10 km south-west of Rethel and 11 km east of Asfeld. Access to the commune is by the D18 road from Acy-Romance in the north-east which passes through the commune to the village near the centre then continues west to Blanzy-la-Salonnaise. The D26 road goes from the village north to Taizy. The D150 goes south-west from the village to Saint-Loup-en-Champagne. The commune is entirely farmland.[2]
List of Successive Mayors[3]
| From | To | Name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1793 | 1807 | Rémy Tagnon | |
| 1807 | 1830 | Guillaume Alexandre Monceau | |
| 1830 | 1839 | Jean Trichet | |
| 1839 | 1843 | Barthélémy Michelet | |
| 1843 | 1876 | Jean Nicolas Rémy Legrand | |
| 1876 | 1892 | Alexandre Paul Victor Koehler | |
| 1892 | 1912 | Hubert Emmanuel Legros | |
| 1912 | 1919 | Charles Eugène Michelet | |
| 1919 | 1921 | Barthélémy Michelet | |
| 1921 | 1929 | Edmond Désiré Lefevre | |
| 1929 | 1965 | Rémy Achille Monceau | |
| 1965 | 1994 | Bernard Edmond Lefevre | |
| 1994 | 2001 | Marie-Hélène Michelet | |
| 2001 | 2014 | Philippe Hourlier | |
| 2014 | 2020 | Hubert Launois | |
| 2020 | current | Yvan Lefevre |
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Avançonnais or Avançonnaises in French.[4]
The commune has one religious building that is registered as an historical monument: