Lavans-lès-Saint-Claude
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Lavans-lès-Saint-Claude is a commune
in the Jura département in Franche-Comté
in eastern France
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club, Jura Sud Lavans
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Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Jura département in Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté the former "Free County" of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy, is an administrative region and a traditional province of eastern France...
in eastern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Sport
Lavans-lès-Saint-Claude is the home of Championnat de France AmateursChampionnat de France Amateurs
The Championnat de France amateur, commonly referred to as simply CFA and formerly known as National 2, is a football league competition. The league serves as the fourth division of the French football league system behind Ligue 1, Ligue 2, and the Championnat National...
club, Jura Sud Lavans
Jura Sud Lavans
Jura Sud Foot is a football club based in Lavans-lès-Saint-Claude, France. They play at the Stade Municipal de Moirans in Lavans-lès-Saint-Claude. The club was founded in 1991...
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Personalities linked to the commune
- Antide JanvierAntide JanvierAntide Janvier was a French clockmaker.He was born in a village in the Jura, and learned the basics of his trade from his father, and was educated in Latin, Greek, mathematics and astronomy by a local abbé...
(1751–1835), clockmaker, was born at Briva (today Brive), a hamlet within the commune.