Le Puy | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Coordinates: | 47.3461°N 6.2289°W |
Arrondissement: | Besançon |
Canton: | Baume-les-Dames |
Insee: | 25474 |
Postal Code: | 25640 |
Mayor: | Christophe Guglielmetti[1] |
Term: | 2020–2026 |
Elevation M: | 300 |
Elevation Min M: | 297 |
Elevation Max M: | 375 |
Area Km2: | 3.42 |
Le Puy (in French pronounced as /lə pɥi/) is a commune in the department of Doubs in the eastern French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
The village of Le Puy lies 16km (10miles) from Besançon on Route D115 and 5km (03miles) north of Roulans. It is close to its intersection with the D336 on the east and the A36 on the west.
The inhabitants of Le Puy are known as Puylots.
The chapel of Notre-Dame de la Délivrance was erected in 1854 by the parishioners in thanksgiving to Our Lady for being spared from a cholera epidemic. An outdoor mass is celebrated on the Sunday nearest the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December each year.
The village is labeled le Puits (French: the Well) on the Cassini map. The French le Puy usually correlates to the Provençal word Puech (an isolated hill). Here, as the Cassini map shows, it refers to the local wells.
All sites are in French, unless otherwise indicated.