This is the marina where Barry and Margaret are now. click on the following link to go to a web page for information on St Jean Du Losne.
www of the office of tourism at St Jean du Losne
(the picture at the bottom of the web page is wider than the screen and you can click and drag it to the left and right to see the whole panorama.)

Below, is some information from Wikipedia about St Jean du Losne, it is translated from a French web page, so some of the grammar may not sound right, but gives insight into history.

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Saint-Jean-of-Losne

Country	France
Area	Burgundy
Department	Coast-in Or
District	District of Beaune
Canton	Canton of Saint-Jean-of-Losne (chief town)
Code INSEE	21554
Postal code	21170
Mayor Mandate in progress	Mrs. Martine Deprey 2001-2008
Intercommunality
Latitude	47° 06' 14'' North
Longitude	5° 15' 53'' Is
Altitude	179 m (mini) - 182 m (maximum)
Surface	0,5 km ²
Population without double accounts	1.257 hab. (1 999)
Density	2.167 hab. /km ²

Saint-Jean-of-Losne is a common Frenchwoman, located in the department of Coast-of Or and the Burgundy area.

Synopsis

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Heraldic [to modify]

Blasonnement: from Burgundy, with champagne of azure to the Legion of Honor to the naturalness suspended with a fermail of mouths
Napoleon insisted that the cross of the Legion of honor appeared in the blazon, and not outside as it was habit for the distinctions ^[1].

Geography [to modify]

Saint-Jean-of-Losne is located on the Saone, on the level of the confluence of this one and Ouche. It is the crossroads between three great river loader-gates:

the Saone, towards the Rhone and the Mediterranean
the channel of Burgundy, towards the Seine and the Paris basin
the Rhine-Rhone channel, towards the Rhine and Northern Europe and east

Saint-Jean-of-Losne is also the smallest commune of France occupying only 0.6 km ².

Economy [to modify]

river port of pleasure

The city of Saint-Jean-of-Losne is today the first French port of river tourism. Thanks to this port, a great number of tourists return the trade of the surroundings of Saint-Jean-to-Losne profitable. The port has been gradually developed for 30 years. At the beginning it y' had creation in the first time of a company of hirings of boats then a company of boats with passengers and two companies offering of the multiple services such as management of the marina, sales of new boats and occasion, sale of superstructure, installation repair, dry setting of boats. Other companies settled to benefit from the activity of river tourism.

History [to modify]

The existence of Saint-Jean-of-Losne is attested since XIIe century. Initially dependent on the dukes of Burgundy, the city will be attached to the royal field, becoming the seat of a baillage ^[2].

Its position of East-West crossroads enabled him to develop an important activity related to the river transport, in particular at the XIXe century with the construction of the channels. Y thus passed nombreaux wood rafts coming from the Jura and bound for Paris.

This strategic position was worth also at the town of have been the seat many battles, of which two made the glory of the city:

detail of the monument commemorating the seat of 1636

The seat of 1636 (Thirty Year old war)

October 28 1636, the Austrian troops directed by Matthias Gallas, after having crossed the Rhine, decide to be established with Saint-Jean-of-Losne for the winter. But on November 2, after two attacks and in spite of a breach in the fortifications, the city is still not taken and the besieged inhabitants refuse any rendering categorically. A third attack will not be enough there: besieging do not take possession of the city. The rain continues which fell during the seat, makes enter into raw the Saone; besieging food miss, and an avant-garde of the royal troops, directed by the marshal Josias Rantzau, arrives in support of the inhabitants: the Austrian troops raise the camp on November 3, and must be folded up.

Louis XIII will reward courage for the city by exempting it of taxes ^[3].

Two flags taken to the Austrians at the time of the attacks are visible in the church Saint-Jean-Baptist.

The victory of the seat imposed by Gallas is commemorated since every fifty years. the last “Festival of Gallas” took place in 1986 and the following edition is programmed for 2036.

The seat of 1814 (countryside of France)

January 17 1814, an Austrian outpost is installed on the level of the bridge on the Saone, opposite the city. In a patriotic fervour, the inhabitants join the soldiers to attack the outpost, which they remove with the enemy. After having cut the bridge, the city will resist the Austrian attacks still lengthily ^[4].

During the Hundred Days, Napoleon rewarded the town of his heroic defense by allotting the Legion of honor to him. March 14 1815, at the time of its passage to the Trawl-net-on-Saone, it declared with the representatives of Saint-Jean-of-Losne: “Known as with your worthy mayor that I give him the cross; because it is for you, good people, that I instituted the Legion of Honor and not for the emigrants pensioned by our enemies” ^[5].

Saint-Jean-of-Losne, Trawl-net and Tournus were the first cities decorated with the Legion of honor.

War of 1939-1945

On September 4, 1944 while the R.A.F destroyed the bridge of Seurre, the Germans protect their retirement while blowing up the stone bridge of Saint-Jean-of-Losne. The bridge of the railroad spanning the Saone in the west of also destroyed the east city, thus cutting the railway line Dijon Lons-the-Salt maker - via Saint-Jean-in-Losne Chaugey and Chaussin.

Administration [to modify]

Period		Identity	Party	Quality
List successive mayors
March 2001		Mrs. Martine Deprey
All the data are not yet known.

Demography [to modify]

Demographic trends
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
1 528	1 623	1 605	1 476	1 342	1 257
Numbers retained since 1962: population without double accounts

Places and monuments [to modify]

Personalities related to the commune [to modify]

See too [to modify]

Wikimedia Commons proposes free documents multi-media on Saint-Jean-of-Losne.

Communes of Coast-in Or

Barry and Margaret

Thursday, June 28, 2007

made it to st jean du losne