Ivory,_Jura

Ivory, Jura

Ivory, Jura

Commune in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France


Ivory (French pronunciation: [ivɔʁi]) is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.[3]

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In a farmyard in the village is a huge old lime tree.[5] 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.

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  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.



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