While the Saône valley, the Côtière, Bourg-en-Bresse und the Gex region have a high density of population, only 16 inhabitants / km² live in the mountainous canton Brénod.

In particular have to be mentioned the Bresse poultries (" volaille de Bresse "), the mold cheese (" Bleu ") of Gex, Grièges and the Bresse, carps and sturgeons of the Dombes region as well as the wine of the Bugey.

" Four centuries later, however, Voltaire changed the " x " to a " y " due to the excessive number of towns in the region with names ending in " x ," such as Maconnex, Saconnex, Gex, Versonnex, Ornex.

This sector enables travel between the neighboring French region of the Pays de Gex and the airport, avoiding Swiss territory and customs.

With the 1815 Protocol of the Conference of Paris, ( signed on 20 November ) and the Treaty of Paris of the same date, Gex was placed in the Customs region of Switzerland and neutralised.

Bleu de Gex, a creamy, semi-soft blue cheese made in the Jura ( département ) | Jura region of France.

Voiron long formed part of Savoy, but in 1355 was exchanged ( with the rest of the region between the Rhône and the Isère, watered by the Guiers Mort ) by the count with France for Faucigny and Gex.

* Pays de Gex, a historical region of the Duchy of Savoy, in modern France and Switzerland

* Gex, or Bleu de Gex, a creamy, semi-soft blue cheese made in the Jura region of France

Ain is composed of four geographically different areas ( Bresse, Dombes, Bugey and Pays de Gex ) which – each with its own characteristics – contribute to the diversity and the dynamic economic development of the department.

Although it is headquartered just across the border in Geneva, Switzerland, most of CERN's Large Hadron Collider lies in parts of several communes in the Arrondissement of Gex in Ain.

Gex is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.

Gex is a platformer video game series, developed by Crystal Dynamics, that details the adventures of an anthropomorphic gecko named Gex.

Gex has a passion for television, which makes him a target for the cybernetic being, Rez, who is determined to overthrow The Media Dimension, the " world " of television.

In the North American version, Gex is voiced by comedian Dana Gould throughout the entire series ; the United Kingdom version features Dana Gould, Leslie Phillips and Danny John-Jules as Gex's voice throughout the series.

Gex 3 is the best selling of the series, shipping over 6 million copies and also became the best-selling PlayStation adventure game of 1999 with 3 million copies in that year alone.

With this is followed the changeable history of the Pays de Gex in which it was finally ceded from the Dukes of Savoy to France in the Treaty of Lyon in 1601.

In the mid 15th century, France was significantly smaller than it is today, and numerous border provinces ( such as Roussillon, Cerdagne, Calais, Béarn, Navarre, County of Foix, Flanders, Artois, Lorraine, Alsace, Trois-Évêchés, Franche-Comté, Savoy, Bresse, Bugey, Gex, Nice, Provence, and Brittany ) were autonomous or foreign-held ( as by England ); there were also foreign enclaves, like the Comtat Venaissin.

Penicillium glaucum is a mold that is used in the making of some types of blue cheese, including Bleu de Gex, Rochebaron, and some varieties of Bleu d ' Auvergne and Gorgonzola.

The passage created by the Rhône is the principal access to the area around Gex and the north of Lake Geneva.

On the French side the nearest town is Gex, which lies at the foot of the Col de la Faucille pass by which the main N5 road crosses the Jura in the direction of Dijon.

* January 17 – France gains Bresse, Bugey and Gex from Savoy, ceding Saluzzo in exchange.

Gex also contributes to the games with wise-cracking remarks laced with media and pop-culture references, reminiscent to the catchphrases of Duke Nukem and most notably those of Ash Williams, the protagonist from The Evil Dead films.

They are Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal, Sir Daniel Fortesque from MediEvil, and Gex from the Gex video game series.

The Congress of Vienna dissolves the department of Léman and assigns the arrondissement Gex to the department of Ain.

In 1272 they receive the Bresse and – by the Treaties of Paris in 1355 – the territories Dauphiné and Gex on the right bank of the Rhône.

The letter had been faked by Edmund de Ath, actually Édouard de Gex in disguise, who had been working with Vrej, one of the Cabal members, who believed his family had been wronged by Jack.

The resolutions regarding the Pays de Gex were annulled by Art 435 of the Treaty of Versailles.

* Gex ( series ), a platformer video game series by Crystal Dynamics featuring a gecko with a passion for TV

* Le Colomby de Gex, a summit in the French Jura Mountains, 1688 meters high.

* Cheese: Cancoillotte, Bleu de Gex, Comté, Édel de Cléron, Metton, Morbier, Munster, Vacherin

French-Savoyard writer and poet Amélie Gex chose to publish as Dian de Jeânna (" John, son of Jane ") during the first half of her career.

* Rossillon de Gex, Coat of Arms described: De sable à la croix d ' argent.

* Édouard de Gex, Jesuit fanatic

* Édouard de Gex, Jesuit fanatic

The town gave its name to the Pays de Gex, at various times under the jurisdiction of France, Switzerland and the Duchy of Savoy.

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* Édouard de Gex, Jesuit fanatic, court priest at Versailles

After the treaty of Lausanne of 1564, Bern had to return the Chablais south of Lake Geneva and the Pays de Gex ( between Geneva and Nyon ) to Savoy in 1567, and the Valais returned the territories west of Saint Gingolph two years later in the treaty of Thonon.

The Preceptors were, until 1580, the patrons of Montbrelloz, Fribourg, and Saint-Jean de Grosset, Pays de Gex.

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