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Oyonnax
Oyonnax () is the second most populated commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. Oyonnax lies in a valley of the Jura Mountains in the far north of Ain. It is near the Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura. The city is on the river Ange. Its prominence in the plastics industry has earned it the name ''Plastics Valley''. One of thoutstanding achievements of the French Résistanceoccurred here on 11 November 1943, when the Maquis de l'Ain et du Haut-Jura defied the German occupiers to hold an 11 November parade and memorial service in honor of French soldiers from World War I. The town was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance on 16 June 1947. History Monopoly in wooden comb manufacture In 630, Clovis II, the son of Dagobert I king of the Franks, travelled to Geneva to meet the king of Burgundy. He met a young slave there, the daughter of a captured Saxon king, and wished to ask for her as his wife. So Dagobert I sent a delegation i ...
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Oyonnax Rugby
Union sportive Oyonnax Rugby is a French rugby union club from Oyonnax in the Ain département of the région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, currently playing in Rugby Pro D2, the second division of the country's professional rugby system. They play at Stade Charles-Mathon (capacity 11,400). They wear black and red. History They were founded in 1909 as ''Club Sportif Oyonnaxien'' and were renamed ''Union Sportive Oyonaxienne'' in 1940, as sports clubs were forced to unite by the Vichy régime. Oyonnax played in the regional leagues until 1967 when they joined the First Division (64 clubs). They were relegated to the lower divisions a few years later and bounced back to Group B of the First Division (the Second Division in fact) in 1988. Finally, in 2003 they reached the Fédérale 1 final and although they went down to Limoges (18-20), they moved on to the professional Pro D2. In the 2012/13 season, they won Pro D2 and were promoted to the top-flight Top 14. They were repromoted afte ...
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Stade Charles-Mathon
Stade Charles-Mathon is a sports stadium located in Oyonnax, France. It is the home of rugby union side Oyonnax Rugby who play in the Top 14. It was first opened in 1939, and underwent renovations in 1983 and 2005. With the promotion of Oyonnax to the Top14 for season 2013–14, the stadium capacity was expanded from 8,670 to 11,400 places, including 7,500 seats. The capacity went up to 11,500 for the 2018–19 season which was achieved in Oyonnax's Pro D2 semi-final against Bayonne on 18 May 2019. It takes its name from Charles Mathon, a leading player for the club before the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi .... References Rugby union stadiums in France Sports venues in Ain Sports venues completed in 1939 {{France-sports-venue- ...
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Oyonnax Station
Oyonnax station ( French: ''Gare d'Oyonnax'') is a railway station served by TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It serves the town of Oyonnax, and is located in the department of Ain. The station is located on the line between Andelot-en-Montagne and La Cluse. History Approval to construct a station at the current site was given by a ministerial decision date 17 November 1880. Construction took place between 28 March 1883 and 16 May 1885, and the station was opened by the Minister of Public Works on 17 May 1885. Work on the Ligne du Haut-Bugey has caused buses to replace trains between Bourg-en-Bresse and Oyonnax from 2005 to December 2012. Services The following services serve the station as of 2022: *regional trains Lyon - Bourg-en-Bresse - Brion-Montréal-la-Cluse - Oyonnax *regional buses to Saint-Claude, Nantua and Bourg-en-Bresse See also * List of SNCF stations in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes This article contains a list of current SNCF railway stations in the Auvergne-Rhône-Al ...
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Haut-Bugey Agglomération
Haut-Bugey Agglomération is a communauté d'agglomération situated in the Ain department and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. Created on 1 January 2014, it is composed of 42 communes and seated in Oyonnax. Its area is 688.8 km2. Its population was 63,099 in 2018, of which 22,336 in Oyonnax proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE, accessed 6 April 2022.
Originally a , the became a communauté d'agglomération on 1 January 2018.


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A404 Autoroute
The A404 autoroute is a motorway in France. The road connects A40 with Oyonnax and was completed in November 1997. Route *''Exchange A40-A404/Hauteville'' Junction with the A40 (Paris-Lyon-Geneva). *09 (''Montreal-Le-Cluse/Nantua'') 6 km Towns served: Nantua, Montreal-Le-Cluse, Izernore ** Péage de Groissiat *10 (''Bellignat'') 12 km: Towns served: Bellignat, Groissiat *11 (''Oyonnax-Ouest'') 16 km: Towns served: Oyonnax *12 (''Parc Technologique Nord'') 17 km: Towns served: Oyonnax, Arbent Arbent () is a commune in the department of Ain in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. The commune has been awarded two flowers by the ''National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom'' in the ''Competition of cities and villa ... * (''St Claude'') End of motorway (provisional) at a roundabout (19 km) at Arbent and RD31. Future The motorway A404 will be in the long term be extended to Saint-Claude and connected to the Swiss motorway netw ...
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Léger-Félicité Sonthonax
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (7 March 1763 – 23 July 1813) was a French abolitionist and Jacobin before joining the Girondist party, which emerged in 1791. During the French Revolution, he controlled 7,000 French troops in Saint-Domingue during part of the Haitian Revolution. His official title was Civil Commissioner. From September 1792, he and Polverel became the ''de facto'' rulers of Saint-Domingue's non-slave population. Because they were associated with Brissot’s party, they were put in accusation by the convention on July 16, 1793, but a ship to bring them back in France didn’t arrive in the colony until June 1794, and they arrived in France in the time of the downfall of Robespierre. They had a fair trial in 1795 and were acquit of the charges the white colonists bring against them. Sonthonax believed that Saint-Domingue's whites were royalists or separatists, so he attacked the military power of the white settlers and by doing so alienated the colonial settlers from the ...
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Eislingen/Fils
Eislingen () is a town in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History Southern Eislingen (Kleineislingen) became a possession Württemberg in 1492 while Northern Eislingen (Großeislingen) was annexed by the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg. The period of municipal division brought about strife between local Imperial Knights (''Reichsritter'') until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803. The events of Protestant Reformation in Germany brought another third of Eislingen under the sovereignty of the Duchy of Württemberg and joint control with Würzburg with the rest of the city. In 1802, Würzburg was annexed by the Electorate of Bavaria. This, by extension, made Northern Eislingen a Bavarian possession until it was ceded in 1806 to the now Kingdom of Württemberg. Stuttgart assigned Eislingen to , a district was reorganized in 1938 as Landkreis Göppingen. Northern and Southern Eislingen united into a single city, named Eislingen-Fils, in 1933. T ...
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Parc Naturel Régional Du Haut-Jura
Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura (Jura Mountains Regional Natural Park) is a French regional natural park located in the southwest of the Jura Mountain Range in France, on the French-Swiss border. Park description The park was created February 10, 1986, and at that time comprised 37 towns. As of 2005, that count is now 113 towns, with a total population of 71,000 inhabitants. The park covers an area of 165,000 hectares across three French departments: Ain, Doubs and Jura. Entry towns (''ville-portes'') situated at the park boundaries are not actually part of the park themselves, but due to their geographic locations are important points of entry into the park. These towns are Divonne-les-Bains, Gex, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, Champagnole, and the Community of Communes of Oyonnax (the latter two not having territory within the park's perimeter). History The park was established in 1986. Its aim was to preserve the mountainous landscapes and biodiversity of the wildern ...
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Médaille De La Résistance
The Resistance Medal (french: Médaille de la Résistance) was a decoration bestowed by the French Committee of National Liberation, based in the United Kingdom, during World War II. It was established by a decree of General Charles de Gaulle on 9 February 1943 "to recognize the remarkable acts of faith and of courage that, in France, in the empire and abroad, have contributed to the resistance of the French people against the enemy and against its accomplices since 18 June 1940". The Resistance medal was awarded to approximately 38,288 living persons and 24,463 posthumously. These awards were both for membership in the Free French forces and for participation in the metropolitan clandestine Resistance during the German occupation of France in World War II. Higher deeds were rewarded with the ''Ordre de la Libération''. Proposals for the medal ceased to be accepted on 31 March 1947. For acts that occurred in Indochina, however, that date was moved back to 31 December 1947. The m ...
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Montréal-la-Cluse
Montréal-la-Cluse () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. It is located in the historical region of Bugey and its inhabitants are known as the ''Montréalais''. Transport The town lies on the Haut Bugey railway line and a branch line to Oyonnax. Brion—Montréal-la-Cluse station has rail connections to Bourg-en-Bresse and Oyonnax. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 393 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Official website
Communes of Ain
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Top 14
The Top 14 () is a professional rugby union club competition that is played in France. Created in 1892, the Top 14 is at the top of the national league system operated by the French National Rugby League, also known by its French initialism of LNR. There is promotion and relegation between the Top 14 and the next level down, the Rugby Pro D2. The fourteen best rugby teams in France participate in the competition, hence the name Top 14. The competition was previously known as the Top 16. The league is one of the three major professional leagues in Europe (along with the English Premiership and the United Rugby Championship, which brings together top clubs from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Italy and South Africa), from which the most successful European teams go forward to compete in the European Rugby Champions Cup, the pan-European championship which replaced the Heineken Cup after the 2013–14 season. The first ever final took place in 1892, between two Paris-based sides, ...
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Ange (river)
The Ange, less often called the Lange, is a river in the Ain department, eastern France. It is a left tributary of the Oignin. It flows into the Rhône by the river Ain Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where it ....Klement Tockner, Urs Uehlinger, Christopher T. Robinson Rivers of Europe- 2009 0080919081 "..some tributaries and metal and organic micro-pollutants in tributaries such as the Ange River and Oignin River (Oyonnax)." References Rivers of Ain Rivers of France Rivers of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes {{France-river-stub ...
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