Saint-love (the Jura)

Geography

Located at the extreme south-west of the area of Franche-Comté, Saint-Love occupies the first slopes of the Jurassic massive while overflowing on the plain bressane near. Saint-love is to 28 km of Borough-in-Bresse, 33 km of Lons-the-Salt maker, 90 km of Lyon, 125 km of Besancon, 130 km of Dijon and 95 km of Geneva.

History

In 585, Gontran_Ier grandson of Clovis, king de Bourgogne, made build with Vincennes-the-Pretty which was not whereas a village, a church intended to shelter the relics of Saint-Amator and Saint-Viator: Christian soldiers of the legion thebaine massacred with Saint-Maurice d' Agaune in the Were worth Swiss. The guard of the relics was entrusted to monks who established a monastery close to the church. The miracles allotted to the relics attracted many pilgrims in the village which developed around its church. The successors of Gontran gave this stronghold to the bishop of Saint-Vincent-of-Mâcon: this one made build a castle and walls for the defense of the borough, which with the wire of the centuries, took the name of Saint-Love.

Demography

Demographic trends since the revolution

Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Demographic table of the 20th century

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Administration and policy

Mayors of Saint-Love

Political tendency

For the referendum on the European Constitution, on May 29th, 2005, the voters of Saint-Love voted to 58,85% in favor of “not” and to 41,15% for “yes” while 32,62% abstained from.

At the 1st turn of the presidential election of 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the head with 29,13% of the votes cast, follow-up of Ségolène Royal with 27,49%, Francois Bayrou with 15,97% and Jean-Marie Le Pen with 11,51%. Rate of participation reaches 85,41%.

With the 2nd turn of the presidential election of 2007, Saint-Amourains voted to 51,16% for Nicolas Sarkozy and 48,84% for Ségolène Royal. Rate of participation is of 85,29%.

Economy

In 2004, unemployment rate amounts to 8,6% of the active population and the average revenue by household with 14.060 €/an.

Teaching

Nursery school
Elementary school Marius Piquand
Nursery school and primary of Annonciades (private establishment)
College Lucien Febvre
Vocational school Ferdinand Fillod

Places and monuments

the pharmacy (classified Historic building):

It contains a whole of pots, vases, jugs and bottles of 16th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

the parish church:

Collegiate church until the Revolution, it suffered from the insults of the French conquest, in 1637 then revolutionists. Often modified, it does not preserve anything any more of its primitive nature; the chorus (15th century) constitutes the oldest part. The bell-tower comtois (17th century), and its 48 meters in height, contributes to give to the building an imposing majesty. The monument preserves the Reliquaire containing the relics of Saint-Amator (Saint-Love).

the Guillaume Tower:

The tower (13th century-16th century) was formerly included in the fortifications of the city. It bears the name of the famous theologist, Guillaume of Saint-Love (v1200- 1272), native, who bequeathed his fortune to the poor of the city and was one of the founders of the Hospital.

audience and royal prisons (classified Historic building):

Going back to 1741, these buildings constituted one of Justices of the Gabelles create by the king in 1705 to judge the smugglers salts, tobaccos, fabrics… The unit, single in the the Jura, includes/understands: the audience with two bodies of guard to the ground floor and two courtrooms on the first floor, with the back, the prisons themselves with the court and the apartment of the geôlier, sprays it, the vault, the court of the prisoners, two rooms of detention, three dungeons in basement with doors with counter.

Personalities related to the commune

Claude Marie Miller, General of the First Empire, Baron, Born with Saint-Love in 1770, died in Paris in 1846. Son-in-law of the painter David, his name is registered on the Triumphal arch of Star with Paris.Jean Luc Colin.

Lucien Febvre, born with Nancy in 1878, was large impassioned of the Franche-Comté for which it devotes its thesis " to it; Philippe II and the Frankone;. With Marc Bloch, it contributes to famous of the French Historical School by creating in 1929 Annals of Modern history and Sociale. It will become then deputy France with UNESCO (1945 - 1950). It is since its property of Souget with Saint-Love that he will write most of his work in which he will specify his design of a history which must analyze the economic and social structures while integrating the technical and mental transformations. He will die and will be buried with Saint-Love in 1956. The college of the city bears its name today.

Firmin Gémier (1869 - 1933) - Actor, director, founder in 1920 of the Popular National theater (NPT).

Leon Werth (1878 - 1955) - Writer, critic Art, friend of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry which will dedicate to him the Petit Prince

Ferdinand Fillod (1891 - 1956) - Inventive of the prefabricated metal house.

Marcel Moyse, born with Saint-Love on May 17th 1889, deceased in Bratteleboro (the USA) on November 1st 1984. Flutist of world famous. He is buried with the cemetery of Saint-Love.

See too

Internal bonds

Common of the Jura
Canton of Saint-Love

External bonds

Saint-Love on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Saint-Love on the site of INSEE
Saint-Love on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Love on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane of Saint-Love on Mapquest
Site of the tourist bureau on the Country of Saint-Love
Site " In connection with Saint-Amour" by Robert Faverge

Notes, sources and references

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