Bonnefontaine

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Administration
Commune of Bonnefontaine
Location
Longitude	05° 44' 51" E
Latitude	46° 43' 45" N
Country	France
Région	Franche-Comté
Département	Jura
Arrondissement	Lons-le-Saunier
Canton	Poligny
Intercommunality	Communauté de Communes du Premier Plateau
Mayor	Pierre Barisaux
Statistics
Altitude	534 m–745 m (avg. 580 m)
Land area¹	8.8 km²
Population² (1999)	84
- Density (1999)	9/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	39065/ 39800
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Bonnefontaine is a French village, located in the département of Jura and the Franche-Comté région.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Administration
4 Demography
5 Monuments
6 Economy
7 Gallery
8 See also
9 External links

[edit] Geography

Bonnefontaine is a little village in Jura of 86 inhabitants (INSEE 1999). It is located in the heart of the first plate of Jura in edge of the Côte de l'Heute to 580 meters of altitude. In addition to its center, the village has a hamlet : the "Patouillet", there existed about it another, the "Vermillère" but this locality is uninhabited today. Traditionally agriculture is turned towards the dairy breeding for the manufacture of a regional cheese, the Comté (cheese).

[edit] History

Until 1897, the village was called "Les Faisses" (what means buttocks, in French). On this date, this name, considered defamatory was replaced by that of Bonnefontaine in reference to the three stone fountains of the village.

[edit] Administration

List of the successive mayors
Period	Identity	Political party
March 2001	Pierre Barisaux
The former data are not yet known.

[edit] Demography

Bonnefontaine, December the twelfth by Rémi Albouy, 2004

Population trend
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
73	107	86	97	98	84
Numbers retained from 1962 : Population sans doubles comptes

[edit] Monuments

The commune has several remarkable monuments : three fountains, a beautiful church of the 15th century of a roof of lava, a seignior's house with a tower and a stone turret of and a convent of Dominican sisters whose garden is registered with the pre-inventory of the historic buildings. Moreover, the old country cottage (co-operative cheese dairy) was transformed into the "Maison du Premier plateau" which shelters the seat of the Community of the "Communauté de Communes du Premier Plateau", a tourist point of information and a showroom.

[edit] Economy

Three companies are situated in Bonnefontaine : a sheep-fold, a tablettery and a farm located at the "Patouillet", hamlet being with less than 500 meters of the village.