Chaux-des-Crotenay

Chaux-des-Crotenay
Chaux-des-Crotenay
Commune
	The church in Chaux-des-Crotenay
	Coat of arms
	Location of Chaux-des-Crotenay
	Chaux-des-Crotenay Chaux-des-Crotenay
	Coordinates: 46°39′30″N 5°58′05″E / 46.6583°N 5.9681°E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Jura
Arrondissement	Lons-le-Saunier
Canton	Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Monique Fantini
Area 1	11.67 km2 (4.51 sq mi)
Population (2022)	401
• Density	34/km2 (89/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	39129 /39150
Elevation	560–859 m (1,837–2,818 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Chaux-des-Crotenay (French pronunciation: [ʃo de kʁɔtnɛ]) is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.^[3]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	454	—
1975	418	−1.17%
1982	394	−0.84%
1990	362	−1.05%
1999	375	+0.39%
2009	412	+0.95%
2014	417	+0.24%
2020	390	−1.11%
Source: INSEE^[4]

Battle of Alesia

The siege of Alesia was the last major battle between the Gauls under Vercingetorix and the Romans under Julius Caesar. Danielle Porte, a professor at the Sorbonne, has argued for an alternative theory that a site in Chaux-des-Crotenay better fits the historical description. However, the consensus of the scientific community is that the siege of Alesia happened in what is today the commune of Alise-Sainte-Reine, based on a considerable amount of archaeological and historical research^[5].

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Paul Bidwell, M. Reddé (dir.) & alii, « Fouilles et recherches franco-allemandes sur les travaux militaires romains autour du mont Auxois (1991-1997) », Mémoire de l'Académie des inscriptions, 2 vol., Paris, 2001 (Britannia, 2005, 36, p. 503-504): ″There has for long seemed to have been a problem in matching Caesar topographical description with the landscape of Alesia […] Reddé's careful comparison of the description with the landscape shows that there are no real contradiction."