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Saint-Claude , town (1990 est. pop. 13,265), Jura dept., E France, in Franche-Comté, at the confluence of the Bienne and Tacon rivers. It is a resort that has a variety of light manufactures. First a Gallic, then a Roman town, it took its name from Bishop Claude of Besançon, who died there in the 7th cent. Serfdom survived in the town at the abbey of Saint-Claude until the abbey was suppressed by the French Revolution in 1789.

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Saint‐Claude, Franche‐Comté/France Condate Named after St Claudius, a 7th‐century bishop of Besançon. Its former name meant ‘Confluence’, a reference to its situation at the junction of two rivers.

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