Why did the population of Descartes, France increase by so much in the 1960's?

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Based on this page from the French School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, it appears that the neighbouring Balsesmes merged into La Haye-Descartes in 1966, before the combined commune was renamed to Descartes the next year.

In 1962, the two communes had remarkably similar population levels of 1,679 and 1,689. With a combined population of 4,267 in 1968, the growth rate was only 26.7%. Still high, mind you, but not the shockingly stratospheric 154% that it initially appears.

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