Saint-Claude, Jura

Saint-Claude
Coat of arms
Saint-Claude
Location within Franche-Comté region Saint-Claude
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Jura
Arrondissement	Saint-Claude
Canton	Saint-Claude
Intercommunality	Val de Bienne
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Jean-Louis Millet
Area1	70.19 km2 (27.10 sq mi)
Population (1999)2	12,303
• Density	180/km2 (450/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	39478 / 39200
Elevation	360–1,222 m (1,181–4,009 ft) (avg. 441 m or 1,447 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Saint-Claude is a commune in the Jura department in the Franche-Comté region in 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was so great that, since the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" came more and more into use and has to-day superseded the other.

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

Personalities

• Nadir Belhadj, footballer
• Suzanne Belperron (1900-1983), jewelry designer
• Angelique Boyer, actress
• Mevlüt Erdinç, footballer
• Alexis Vuillermoz, cyclist

See also

• Communes of the Jura department

References

• INSEE commune file

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