Culoz ( or ) is a former commune in the

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 ...

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in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of

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. On 1 January 2023, it was merged into the new commune of

Culoz-Béon Culoz-Béon is a ''commune nouvelle'' in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. It is the result of the merger, on 1 January 2023, of the former communes of Béon and Culoz. History The ''commune nouvelle'' was off ...

Geography

The town, which is situated on the right bank of the

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just a few kilometres from the first foothills of the

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, is dominated by the

Grand Colombier Grand Colombier is a small, uninhabited island in the French North American territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Only 50 ha in area, it lies 500 m off the north coast of Saint Pierre Island and rises to an elevation of 150 m. It ...

: the highest summit of the southern end of the Jura mountain range. Culoz lies on the D904 road close to the point at which it crosses the D992 and is also an important railway junction: Culoz railway station is served by lines to Geneva,

Bellegarde-sur-Valserine Bellegarde-sur-Valserine (, literally ''Bellegarde on Valserine''; frp, Bèlagouârda) is a former commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 11,326. On 1 January 2019, i ...

, Évian-les-Bains, Aix-les-Bains, Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Lyon, and Paris.

Personalities

* Henry Dunant, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1901, was one of the founders of the Red Cross *The surgeon

Antonin Poncet Antonin Poncet (28 March 1849, Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans, Ain – 16 September 1913) was a French surgeon. Son of Jean Joseph Poncet and Catherine Jeanne Chabalier, he was inspired by his grandfather Jean-Pierre Antoine Chabalier, surgeon in th ...

, who died in Culoz in 1951 *Brothers Henry and Léon Serpollet, steam engineers *

Christophe Lemaitre Christophe Lemaitre (; born 11 June 1990) is a French sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. In 2010, Lemaitre became the first white athlete to break the 10-second barrier in an officially timed 100 m event. Lemaitre has run a su ...

,Culoz celebrates Lemaitre after the European Championship, 2010
/ref> sprinter, European champion.

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