- Versailleux
Infobox Commune de France
nomcommune=Versailleux
région=Rhône-Alpes
département=Ain
arrondissement=Bourg-en-Bresse
canton=Chalamont
insee=01434
cp=01330
maire=Gérard Branchy
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm=Chalamont
longitude=5.10444444444
latitude=45.9811111111
alt moy=286 m
alt mini=274
alt maxi=303 m
hectares=1877
km²=18.77
sans=255
date-sans=1999
dens=14Versailleux is a commune in the department of
Ain in easternFrance .On
February 23 ,2006 during the epidemic ofavian influenza , a great number of turkeys died in a breeding of 11,000 animals, probably because of the virusH5N1 . The turkeys had never left it because the breeding was confined. The commune ofJoyeux , in which the first French case was detected onFebruary 13 , is located a few kilometers in the south.ee also
*
Dombes
*Communes of the Ain department References
"Based on the article in the French Wikipedia."
External links
* [http://ladombes.free.fr/Villes_Dombes/Versailleux.htm La Dombes and the city of Versailleux]
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