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POLIGNY

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 981 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POLIGNY , a See also:

town of eastern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Jura, 18 m. N. N.E. of Lons-le-Saunier on the See also:Paris-See also:Lyons railway. Pop. (1906), 3756. The town lies in the valley of the Glantine at the See also:base of a See also:hill crowned by the ruins of the old See also:castle of Grimont, once the repository of the archives of the See also:county of See also:Burgundy. The See also:church of Montivillard, its most remarkable See also:building, See also:dates in the See also:oldest portions. from the 12th See also:century, its See also:chief features being a Romanesque See also:tower and See also:reredos of the See also:Renaissance See also:period. Amongst the other old buildings of the town, the church of St Hippolyte, of the first See also:half of the 15th century, and a See also:convent-church serving as See also:corn See also:market are of some See also:interest. The tribunal of first instance belonging to the arrondissement is at See also:Arbois. Poligny has a sub-prefecture, a communal See also:college and a school of See also:dairy instruction. Under the name of Polemniacum the town seems to have existed at the See also:time of the See also:Roman occupation.

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