A monument to Joubert at Bourg-en-Bresse was razed by order of Louis XVIII, but another memorial was afterwards erected at Pont de Vaux.
This church was previously the collegiate church of Notre-Dame-du-Bourg, which in 1992 was raised to the status of co-cathedral of the Diocese of Belley-Ars, as the bishop and diocesan administration of Belley, later Belley-Ars, had been resident in Bourg-en-Bresse since 1978.
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Bourg-en-Bresse Cathedral (Concathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation de Bourg-en-Bresse) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Bourg-en-Bresse, France.
Born in Lyon in the center of the silk manufacturing district where his father was an exporter, Edouard studied piano at the lycée of Bourg-en-Bresse, after which he returned to Lyon and turned his attention to organ and harmony.
Henri Pons Thiard Bissy was born on 25 May 1657 in Pierre-de-Bresse.
Jacques Prost, born in 1946 in Bourg-en-Bresse, is a French physicist, General director of École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, member of the French Academy of Sciences.
He was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg-en-Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the rest of his life.
Julien Tiersot (5 July 1857, in Bourg-en-Bresse (Rhône-Alpes) – 10 August 1936, in Paris), was a French musicologist, composer and a pioneer in ethnomusicology.
Part of the A40 autoroute crosses through a spectacular portion of the southern Jura between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, which is known as the "Highway of the Titans."
Luc Jacquet (5 December 1967 in Bourg-en-Bresse) is a French film director from Paris.
She is buried at Bourg-en-Bresse, in the magnificent mausoleum that she ordered for her second husband and herself.
Nicolas Faret (Bourg-en-Bresse, c.1596 – 8 September 1646) was a French statesman, writer, scholar and translator.
Salah Hamouri was born on 25 April 1985 in Jerusalem to a French mother, Denise Hamouri-Guidoux, from Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain), who teaches French in Jerusalem, and from a Palestinian father, Hassan Hamouri, who manages a restaurant in Eastern Jerusalem.
# Beatrice of Savoy, called Beatrice of Bâgé, she married in 1289 to Giacomo de Candia, Lord of Bresse and Count of Ventimiglia, and took residency near Chambéry-Le-Vieux at the Chateau de Candie by the L’ombre Paradise; they had a son François de Candie; and after becoming a widow, she re-married to Manfred III of Saluzzo
During the 1880s, Bresse even joined a syndicate which bought a section of railway from the provincial government and sold it to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, earning substantial profits.
Jean-Bernard Gauthier was born in a family of jurists in Bourg-en-Bresse (now Ain département) of France.
He gained his first military experience when the French invaded Burgundy in 1636, harrying the French troops from the castles of Montaigu and Saint-Laurent-la-Roche, and devastating the frontier districts of Bresse and Bugey with fire and sword (1640-1642).
Today it has been transformed into a voie verte (green route) and replaced with bus service provided by TER Lorraine (line 9), extended to La Bresse.