Ivory, Jura

Ivory is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Ivory
Commune
The church in Ivory
Location of Ivory
Ivory Ivory
Coordinates: 46°54′48″N 5°51′37″E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Jura
Arrondissement	Dole
Canton	Arbois
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	François Bouveret
Area ^1	9.13 km^2 (3.53 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	96
• Density	11/km^2 (27/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	39267 /39110
Elevation	544–632 m (1,785–2,073 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 209 —     1806 328 +56.9% 1821 291 −11.3% 1831 329 +13.1% 1841 307 −6.7% 1851 327 +6.5% 1861 260 −20.5% 1872 213 −18.1% 1881 223 +4.7% 1891 202 −9.4% 1901 201 −0.5% 1911 195 −3.0%

Year Pop. ±% 1921 208 +6.7% 1931 194 −6.7% 1946 177 −8.8% 1954 171 −3.4% 1962 150 −12.3% 1968 128 −14.7% 1975 110 −14.1% 1982 126 +14.5% 1990 107 −15.1% 1999 84 −21.5% 2006 86 +2.4% 2012 85 −1.2%

Old tree

In a farmyard in the village is a huge old lime tree.[2] Now old and hollow, the trunk could accommodate a table for six or eight diners. It is said to have been planted to mark the marriage of Maria, nineteen-year-old daughter and heiress of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, to Emperor Maximilian I. The marriage took place on 18 August 1477. Maria's father had died in battle outside Nancy on 5 January that same year. Why plant a tree in Ivory? Who planted it? It was completely unmarked and unknown until a passing visitor told the local Tourist Board the story and the tree was ring fenced and its history recorded on a plaque.

See also

• Communes of the Jura department

References

• INSEE statistics

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Remarkable trees at horizonfeatures.com Archived 2007-07-04 at the Wayback Machine