Editing La Rochelle (section)

==Population==
Its inhabitants are called "les Rochelaises" and "les Rochelais" in French.<ref>[https://www.habitants.fr/charente-maritime-17 Le nom des habitants du 17 - Charente-Maritime], habitants.fr</ref> The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of La Rochelle proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of La Rochelle absorbed part of the former commune of Saint-Maurice in 1858 and Laleu in 1880.<ref name=ehess/>

{{Historical populations
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| source = EHESS<ref name=ehess>{{Cassini-Ehess|29365|La Rochelle}}</ref> and INSEE (1968-2017)<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-17300#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE</ref>
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|1793 |22000
|1800 |17512
|1806 |18346
|1821 |12327
|1831 |14629
|1836 |14857
|1841 |16720
|1846 |17358
|1851 |16505
|1856 |16175
|1861 |18904
|1866 |18720
|1872 |19506
|1876 |19583
|1881 |22464
|1886 |23829
|1891 |26808
|1896 |28376
|1901 |31559
|1906 |33858
|1911 |36371
|1921 |39770
|1926 |41521
|1931 |45043
|1936 |47737
|1946 |48923
|1954 |58799
|1962 |66590
|1968 |73347
|1975 |79757
|1982 |75840
|1990 |71094
|1999 |76584
|2007 |76848
|2012 |74123
|2017 |75735
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