Saint-Claude, Jura

French commune
nomcommune=Saint-Claude


caption=View of Saint-Claude


x=202
y=141
lat_long=coord|46|23|16|N|5|51|50|E|region:FR_type:city
région=Franche-Comté
département=Jura
arrondissement=Saint-Claude
canton=Saint-Claude (chief town)
insee=39478|cp=39200
maire=Francis Lahaut
mandat=2008-
intercomm=Communauté de Communes de Val de Bienne
alt moy=441 m
alt mini=360 m
alt maxi=1,222 m
hectares=7,019
km²=70.19
sans=12,303
date-sans=1999
dens=175
date-dens=1999

Saint-Claude is a town and commune in the Jura "département", in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

The town was originally named "Saint-Oyand" after Saint Eugendus. However, when St. Claudius had, in 687, resigned his Diocese of Besançon and had died, in 696, as twelfth abbot, the number of pilgrims who visited his grave was so great that, since the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" came more and more into use and has to-day superseded the other. [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05597c.htm CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Eugendus ] ]

Saint-Claude Cathedral, former seat of the Bishops of Saint-Claude, is located here.

Demographics

As of the census of 1999, the population was formatnum:12303.

ee also

*Communes of the Jura department

ources

* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05597c.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint-Claude]
* [http://www.insee.fr/en/home/home_page.asp INSEE] en icon
* [http://www.ign.fr/rubrique.asp?rbr_id=1&lng_id=EN IGN] en icon

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