Saint-Claude, Jura

Saint-Claude
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Claude
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
Area 1	70.19 km2 (27.10 sq mi)
Population  (2013)	10,346
• Density	150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

Saint-Claude (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃klod]) is a commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-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was so great that, since the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" came more and more into use and has to-day superseded the other.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	3,657	—
1806	3,525	−3.6%
1821	4,463	+26.6%
1831	5,222	+17.0%
1841	5,270	+0.9%
1851	5,897	+11.9%
1861	6,316	+7.1%
1872	7,083	+12.1%
1881	8,216	+16.0%
1891	9,782	+19.1%
1901	10,449	+6.8%
1911	12,022	+15.1%
1921	12,631	+5.1%
1931	13,436	+6.4%
1946	10,749	−20.0%
1954	11,301	+5.1%
1962	12,114	+7.2%
1968	12,486	+3.1%
1975	13,511	+8.2%
1982	12,715	−5.9%
1990	12,704	−0.1%
1999	12,303	−3.2%
2006	11,950	−2.9%
2013	10,346	−13.4%

Sights

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 statistics

External links

• "St Claude" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.