Le Puy is a commune

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 Doubs

Doubs

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 department in the Franche-Comté

Franche-Comté

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 region

Régions of France

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 in eastern France

France

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Geography

The village of Le Puy lies 16 km (9.9 mi) from Besançon

Besançon

Besançon , is the capital and principal city of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It had a population of about 237,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2008...

 on the D115 and 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Roulans

Roulans

Roulans is a commune in the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France.-Population:-External links:*...

. It is close to its intersection with the D336 on the east and the A36 on the west.

Population

The inhabitants of Le Puy are known as Puylots.

Sights

The chapel of Notre-Dame de la Délivrance was erected in 1854 by the parishioners in thanksgiving to Our Lady

Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic)

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 for being spared from a cholera

Cholera

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 epidemic

Epidemic

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. An outdoor mass is celebrated on the Sunday nearest the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Immaculate Conception

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, 8 December each year.

Etymology

The village is named le Puits on the Cassini

César-François Cassini de Thury

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 map. Usually le Puy in France refers to the Provençal

Provençal language

Provençal is a dialect of Occitan spoken by a minority of people in southern France, mostly in Provence. In the English-speaking world, "Provençal" is often used to refer to all dialects of Occitan, but it actually refers specifically to the dialect spoken in Provence."Provençal" is also the...

word Puech (an isolated hill). Here, as the Cassini map shows, it refers to the local wells (Fr: puits).

External links

All sites are in French, unless otherwise indicated.

• Le Puy on the Institut Géographique National site
• Weather for Le Puy
• Financial Data for Le Puy from the Ministry of the Economy, Finances and Industry
• Tax information for Le Puy
• Closest communes to Le Puy
• My hometown (Monclocher) site (Location of townhall only)
• Le Puy on the intercommunal Web site of the department