Oslon
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Commune of Oslon |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Bourgogne |
| Department | Saône-et-Loire |
| Arrondissement | Chalon-sur-Saône |
| Canton | Chalon-sur-Saône-Sud |
| Intercommunality | Le grand Chalon |
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| Elevation | 179 m–214 m (avg. 178 m) |
| Land area¹ | 4,76 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
983 |
| - Density | 206/km² |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 71333/ 71380 |
| 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: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Oslon is a small village four kilometers away from Chalon-sur-Saône in central France. This typical French village has some thousand inhabitants and has a school with three primary classes, a butcher and grocery store but no post office or bank.
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[edit] History
The village was founded circa 1850 when the French postal services installed a forepost alongside the railroad. Previously the region had been populated by diverse immigration which started under the Roman Empire, which had a great commercial route (the Appian Way) and stopover a few miles away in the city of Autun.
Oslon was the first city where the fighters of the Resistance went when they entered the free zone after the German invasion of France during World War II. The Germans stopped just outside Chalon-sur-Saône. Many Frenchmen died trying to swim across to Oslon and the free zone.
[edit] Specialties of the area
The Burgundy "Bresse" area, which starts at Oslon and finishes north and east of Lyon, is famous as the prime area for escargot. It also produces good wines.
[edit] Local architecture
The architectural style is predominantly square houses in sandy tones with steep roofs like mountain chalets, as winters are very cold and snowy. This year Oslon was elected the flowery city of the year by the French national board of tourism.
[edit] Notable people
The most famous people from the village are Nicephore Niepce, who invented modern photography, and the tycoon family which created Rhone-Poulenc, the French Fortune 200 conglomerate.
