Ornans () is a

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in the

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in eastern

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. On January 1, 2016, the former commune

Bonnevaux-le-Prieuré Bonnevaux-le-Prieuré () is a former commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the commune Ornans.Arrêté préfectoral
6 November 2015

Personalities

Ornans is the birthplace of the French realist painter,

Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and t ...

(1819 - 1877). One of Courbet's most famous paintings is '' Burial at Ornans'', which records the burial of his great uncle in September 1848. Courbet's painting depicted actual people who had attended the funeral and were used as models for the painting. The mathematician and instrument maker

Pierre Vernier Pierre Vernier (19 August 1580 at Ornans, Franche-Comté (at that time ruled by the Spanish Habsburgs, now part of France) – 14 September 1637, same location) was a French mathematician and instrument-inventor. He was the inventor and epony ...

, for whom the eponymous scale is named, was also a native of this small town (19 August 1580 -14 September 1637). The main avenue of Ornans bears his name, Rue Pierre Vernier. The historical building, l'Hôtel de Granvelle, now designated 67 and 77 Rue Pierre Vernier, was the birthplace of Cardinal

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (20 August 151721 September 1586), Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, was a Bisontin ( Free Imperial City of Besançon) statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsb ...

(20 August 1517 - 21 September 1586) who was instrumental in the repression of the Protestant Reformation in the Netherlands, under Charles V (called "Charles Quint" in French), Holy Roman Emperor from 1516 to 1556. His father Nicholas Perrenot de Granvelle (1484–1550), had been a chancellor of the empire before him and trusted advisor to Charles V from the time he was elected emperor at 19 years of age. Nicholas (father of 15 children) purchased a building located in the center of the town, and made significant expansions; this became known as L'Hôtel de Granvelle. He groomed his son to assume his advisory position to the Emperor, and to the Pope. In his unique role, and powerful position, it is believed that Antoine was one of the architects of the Counter-Reformation. (i.e. He was charged with addressing the Council of Trent in the name of the emperor (9 Jan., 1543)). "His vast correspondence is an inexhaustible source of information concerning the history of the sixteenth century. It might also be said, writes the celebrated archivist, Gachard, that no minister ever wrote as much as the Cardinal de Granvelle. His correspondence has been edited partly in France by Weiss, "Les papiers d'état de Granvelle" (9 vols., 4to, 1841–52), partly in Belgium, "La correspondence du cardinal Granvelle" (12 vols., 4to, 1878–96), the first three volumes by E. Poullet, the remainder by Ch. Piat." Image:0 Ornans - Loue - Quartier de l'église St-Laurent (1).JPG, The

Loue The Loue () is a river of eastern France, a left tributary of the Doubs, which it joins downstream of Dole. It is long. Its source is a karst spring in the Jura mountains near Ouhans, which at least partly receives its water from the Doubs. Th ...

and the neighborhood of Saint-Laurent File:0 Ornans - Quartiers bordant la Loue (1).JPG, House along the River Loue File:Ornans, le Musée Courbet.jpg, The Courbet Museum

Population

The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Ornans proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Ornans absorbed the former commune of Bonnevaux-le-Prieuré in 2016.

Personalities

Population

See also