The Dard is a short (2.1 km)

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of the Seille de Beaume in the

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of Jura in

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. The Dard rises in the

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known as the ''Reculée de Baume'', and flows through the valley to the village of

Baume-les-Messieurs Baume-les-Messieurs () is a commune in the Jura department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. The village lies within the most extensive of the steephead valleys of the Jura escarpment, the ''Reculée de Baume''. I ...

, where it joins the Seille de Beaume. At its source there is a notable series of

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s, which can be visited.les Grottes de Baume-les-Messieurs
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References

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