Furthermore, a branch of the Lyon faculty of education is situated in Bourg-en-Bresse providing 450 places for future school teachers.

Part of A40 autoroute crosses through a spectacular portion of the southern Jura between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, which is known as the " Highway of the Titans.

* A high school in Bourg-en-Bresse is named after Lalande.

Bourg-en-Bresse is located at the western base of the Jura mountains, on the left bank of the Reyssouze, a tributary of the Saône.

The chief of the older buildings is the church of Notre-Dame ( Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l ' Annonciation de Bourg-en-Bresse ) ( 16th century ), of which the façade belongs to the Renaissance ; other parts of the church are Gothic.

The church of Brou, a suburb of Bourg-en-Bresse, is of great artistic interest.

Bourg-en-Bresse is twinned with:

She is buried at Bourg-en-Bresse, of l ' Ain, Rhone-Alpes in the magnificent mausoleum that she ordered for her second husband ( Philibert ) and her.

* The city is twinned with Bourg-en-Bresse, France.

The town is approximately equally placed between Besançon, Dijon, Bourg-en-Bresse and Geneva, though the last of these lies on the other side of the Jura massif.

Luc Jacquet ( 5 December 1967 in Bourg-en-Bresse ) is a French film director from Paris.

Bâgé-la-Ville is located in the heart of Bresse, between Bourg-en-Bresse and Mâcon.

Beaupont is located 28 km north of Bourg-en-Bresse and about 100 km from Lyon.

It is located around north of Bourg-en-Bresse and south of Lons-le-Saunier.

The town is in the part of Ain which is half-way between Lyon ( 33 km ) and Bourg-en-Bresse ( 29 km ), in the heart of the area known as the Dombes, notable for its hundreds of lakes which are suited to fish-rearing as well as to water fowls.

The commune lies near Bourg-en-Bresse ; the Solnan forms its southwestern border.

Although looking ahead, Ain attaches nevertheless great importance to its historical and cultural heritage as illustrate its gastronomy ( restaurant of Georges Blanc in Vonnas ), its annual poultry competitions in the Bresse (" the three glorious ") and its tourism ( 346 classified monuments such as the famous church of Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse, 14 museums of France, eco-tourism and ski tourism ).

* Bourg-en-Bresse, France

Bourg-en-Bresse was the finish of Stage 6 and the departure of Stage 7 in the 2007 Tour de France.

After the surrender of France on 25 June, he retired to Bourg-en-Bresse where Henri Frenay recruited him for the French Resistance.

He was invited to create a number of artworks in France: Philibert et Marguerite in the cloister of the Musée de Brou at Bourg-en-Bresse ( 1985 ); Threats of Hell ( 1990 ) at the CAPC ( Centre d ' arts plastiques contemporains de Bordeaux ) in Bordeaux ; Octagon for Saint Eloi ( 1991 ) in the village of Chagny in Burgundy ; and Elevations for L ' Allée de la Mormaire in Grosrouvre ( 1993 ).

Jean-Bernard Gauthier was born in a family of jurists in Bourg-en-Bresse ( now Ain département ) of France.

Archduke Robert married Princess Margherita of Savoy-Aosta ( born 7 April 1930 ), elder daughter of the late Amadeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta on 28 December 1953 in Bourg-en-Bresse, France ( civilly ) and 29 December 1953 ( religiously ), in Brou, France.

On Saturday July 14, 2007 he secured his biggest victory to date, the seventh stage of the Tour de France from Bourg-en-Bresse to Le Grand-Bornand.

But its location, close to the borders of France, encouraged the emergence of Bourg-en-Bresse, which became the capital.

Bourg ( today Bourg-en-Bresse ), a fortified bastion with 3400 inhabitants, became the capital of Bresse.

In 1992 the City of Bourg-en-Bresse, the department of Ain and the local Chamber of Industry and Commerce founded the technology platform " Alimentec ".

Several colleges and research institutions which are situated in Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellignat have settled in the department of Ain.

Lalande was born at Bourg-en-Bresse ( now in the département of Ain ) to Pierre Lefrançois and Marie ‐ Anne ‐ Gabrielle Monchinet.

* Bourg-en-Bresse ( Ain )

* Bourg-en-Bresse ( Ain ): 13th Century

Born at Bourg-en-Bresse, in the département of Ain.

# Arrondissement of Bourg-en-Bresse, ( prefecture of the Ain department: Bourg-en-Bresse ) with 24 cantons and 219 communes.

Joseph Vacher ( November 16, 1869 – December 31, 1898, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain ) was a French serial killer, sometimes known as " The French Ripper " or " L ' éventreur du Sud-Est " (" The South-East Ripper ") due to comparisons to the more famous Jack the Ripper murderer of London, England in 1888.

In 1802 Ampère was appointed a professor of physics and chemistry at the École Centrale in Bourg-en-Bresse, leaving his ailing wife and infant son in Lyon.

A monument to Joubert at Bourg-en-Bresse was razed by order of Louis XVIII, but another memorial was afterwards erected at Pont de Vaux.

Bourg-en-Bresse was the birthplace of:

He was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg-en-Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the rest of his life.

Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ( October 9, 1581 – February 26, 1638 ) was a French mathematician, linguist, poet and classics scholar born in Bourg-en-Bresse.

It was commissioned by Margaret of Austria originally for the funeral monument in the church of Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse in Burgundy.

Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan ( 1748, Bourg-en-Bresse – 27 September 1796 ) was a French officer for the Continental Army and a French General during the French Revolution.

Jean Marie Claude Alexandre Goujon ( April 13, 1766, Bourg-en-Bresse – June 17, 1795, Paris ) was a politician of the French Revolution.

Born into a family of Bresse, his grandfather, Claude Goujon, was Director of meeting in Dijon, his father, Claude Alexandre Goujon, agriculture from Bourg-en-Bresse.