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12 unusual facts about Doubs


Amadeus II of Montfaucon

Amadeus II of Montfaucon (1130–1195) was Count of Montbéliard and Lord of Montfaucon from 1163 until his death.

Arguel inscription

It was claimed to have been discovered by a student of law, Robert Milliat, next to a spring at the foot of a cliff at Arguel in the French Doubs department, just south of Besançon.

Bourguignon

Bourguignon, Doubs, a commune of the Doubs département of France

Charles Plowden

Charles Plowden (born at Plowden Hall, Shropshire, 1743; died at Jougne, Doubs, France, 13 June 1821) was an English Jesuit teacher, writer and administrator.

Claudine de Culam

Claudine de Culam (d. 1601), was a sixteen-year-old girl who was tried and hanged for the act of bestiality with a dog in Rognon, France.

Dung

Dung, Doubs, a commune in the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France

French legislative election, 1978

In his Verdun-sur-le-Doubs speech, President Giscard d'Estaing warned the French voters that he could not prevent the enforcement of the left-wing Common programme if the "Union of Left" won.

Henry I, Count of Montbéliard

Henry I of Montfaucon (before 1318–1367) became Count of Montbéliard and Lord of Montfaucon through his marriage to Agnes, the daughter of Reginald of Burgundy, Count of Montbéliard.

John II of Chalon-Arlay

Louis I of Chalon (died 1366) Seigneur d'Arguel, married Marguerite of Vienne in 1363 (daughter of the Seigneur de Pymont Philippe de Vienne)

Moncey

Moncey, Doubsdépartement in France

Stephen of Montfaucon

Stephen of Montfaucon (1325 – 1 November 1397) was Lord of Montfaucon and Count of Montbéliard from 1367 until his death.

Union for French Democracy

During the 1978 legislative electoral campaign, in his Verdun-sur-le-Doubs speech, President Giscard d'Estaing noted that the political leanings of the French people were divided among four groups: the Communists (PCF), the Socialists (PS), the Neo-Gaullists (RPR) and his own followers.


Florimont

The site of Florimont has been occupied since the Roman period, probably by a lookout tower charged with supervising the movement of troops on their way connecting Mandeure in Doubs to Augst and Kembs in Haut-Rhin.

Franquemont

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Swiss part of the ancient Baronie formed the community of Goumois in Switzerland (Canton Jura), the French part formed the community of Goumois, Doubs in France (Département du Doubs)

Frédéric Bataille

Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle du Doubs, n° 15, 30 p. (1908) - Boletes, classification and determination of species.

French legislative election, 1993

However, only two ecologists qualified for the runoff, including Dominique Voynet in her constituency in the Doubs département.

Jacques Bouveresse

Born on 20 August 1940 in Épenoy in the Doubs département of France into a farming family, Jacques Bouveresse completed his secondary education at the seminary of Besançon.

Lanthenans

The commune lies on a sunny slope with an exceptional microclimate and equidistant from L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs, Pont-de-Roide, and Clerval.

Marcelle de Lacour

Marcelle de Lacour was born Marcelle Schaeffer at Besançon, France, the capital of the department of Doubs, France.

Otto de la Roche

Otto (or Othon) de la Roche (died before 1234) was a Burgundian nobleman from the castle of La Roche-sur-l'Ognon, in the Franche-Comté commune of Rigney, Doubs.

Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans

The Saline Royale (Royal Saltworks) is a historical building at Arc-et-Senans in the department of Doubs, eastern France.