- Lons-le-Saunier
French commune
nomcommune = Lons-le-Saunier
région =Franche Comté
département = Jura ("préfecture")
arrondissement = Lons-le-Saunier
canton = Chief town of 2 cantons
Lons-le-Saunier-Nord,
Lons-le-Saunier-Sud
insee = 39300
cp = 39000
maire =Jacques Pélissard
mandat = 2001–2008
intercomm = Bassin de Lons-le-Saunier
longitude=5.55444444444
latitude=46.6752777778
alt moy = 255 m
alt mini = 243 m
alt maxi = 415 m
hectares = 768
km² = 7.68
sans = 18,483
date-sans = 1999
dens = 2,407
date-dens = 1999Lons-le-Saunier is a commune of
France , "préfecture" (capital) of the Jura "département".Demographics
As of the
census of 1999, the population was formatnum:18483.
The estimation for 2005 was formatnum:17900.Miscellaneous
Births
*
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760–1836),composer of "La Marseillaise ", the Frenchnational anthem
*Étienne Bobillier (1798–1840),mathematician
*Maurice Joly (1829–78), satirist and lawyer
*René Rémond (born 1918), historian and political economist
*Guy Canivet (born 1943),judge Twin towns
Lons-le-Saunier is twinned with:
*Offenburg ,Germany
*Ripley ,United Kingdom ee also
*
Communes of the Jura department External links
* [http://www.ville-lons-le-saunier.fr/ Official website] fr icon
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