Mignovillard

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

Geography

Resources and productions: Peat bogs. Marble career. Forests of conifers, pastures. Bovines. Bee-keeping. Cheese-making agricultural cooperatives (manufacture of county); visit cheese dairy. Industry of wood and factory of undercutting.

History

First mention with

Depended on the seigniory of Nozeroy.

Set fire to by the army of Saxony-Weimar in 1639.

Fusion in 1966 with Small-Villard; in 1973 with Froidefontaine and Essavilly

The villages of the commune was formerly served by the Secondary lines of the Jura.

Administration

|- | align=right| March 2001 || ||Mr. Pierre Perret ||align=" center" |S.E. ||Mayor |- | align=right| March 1995 || ||Mr. Pierre Perret ||align=" center" |S.E. ||Mayor |- | align=right| March 1988 || ||Mr. Pierre Paget||align=" center" |S.E. ||Mayor |- | align=right| March 1982 || ||Mr. Pierre Paget ||align=" center" |S.E. ||Mayor |- | align=right| March 1976 || ||Mr. Pierre Paget ||align=" center" |S.E. ||Mayor

Demography

Places and monuments

Eglise*: bell-tower-porch 16th; frontage and nave 18th; Gothic bases and carved capitals; carved woodworks 15th of the chorus. Church of Froidefontaine* 12th/17th. Vault of Essavilly 18th. Oratory 16th with Small-Villard. Croix* of stone way 15th (MH) with Froidefontaine. Employers' festival: 29/9 in Mignovillard and Froidefontaine; 8/12 in Essavilly. Marked out pedestrian paths. Cross-country skiing (1 060m/1 200m): 6 tracks from 2 to 18 km

Personalities related to the commune

Jean François Xavier GIROD, doctor of LOUIS XVI, originating in Mignovillard where the native house is located at the center of the village. Thanks to her intervention, the countess of LAURAGUAIS made an important equipment of 700 hectares of forest by an act of September 23rd, 1773. This donation deprived the inhabitants of the communes of the canton of Nozeroy of certain rights on the forests given in any property to the inhabitants of Mignovillard, and they expressed their dissatisfaction and their jealousy by engaging several lawsuits which finished all with the exclusive advantage of the inhabitants of Mignovillard who benefitted glory and from it. Since then, the inhabitants of Mignovillard were called the Glorious ones.

Photographs

See too

Common of the Jura

External bonds

Mignovillard on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Mignovillard on the site of INSEE
Mignovillard on the site of Quid
Localization of Mignovillard on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Mignovillard on Mapquest

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