Boujailles

Boujailles is a common French, located in the department of the Doubs and the area Franche-Comté.

==Géographie== Boujailles is located on a zone of plates of the Jura whose altitude is of 800/900 meters. The ground consists of grounds limestones eroded and forming by place of dolines. Nevertheless, the territory of this commune includes/understands also vast wide cultivable grounds, of weak declivity, as well as pastures. The village is established in the middle of a basin, which is surrounded by forests of conifers, of which the forest of Joux, one of the most beautiful fir plantations of Europe.

History

The known origins of Boujailles go back to the 9th century. As of this time, this village profited from its position on the way connecting the monasteries of Saint Benign to Dijon with Saint Maurice d' Agaune in Were worth Swiss. From the 13th century, a medieval axis Salins/La Suisse made it possible to forward to Italy the products coming from the Champagne fairs (spices, silk, cotton, luxury articles) as well as salt the Saline ones. In Boujailles, the passage of Chalamont was used as toll between Salins and Pontarlier. This situation supported the development of the village, in particular by the creation of old people's home-relay. On the place even of toll, the castle of Chalamont was set up at the 13th century, by the house of Châlon, valiant defendant of the County. Jean de Châlon-Arlay, resistant to the attempts at tender of the barons comtois on behalf of the Philippe-the-Bold duke of Burgundy, was locked up there in 1392. Except for the passage of Chalamont, no other trace remains of this medieval time.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of Doubs
  • Presentation of the commune of Boujailles

External bonds

  • Boujailles on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Boujailles on the site of INSEE
  • Boujailles on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Boujailles on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Boujailles on Mapquest

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