Dôle

Dôle, a town in the French department of Jura, on the Doubs, 29 miles SE. of Dijon by rail. It contains a Gothic cathedral, a college, and a library; and it has quarries, foundries, manufactures of metal wares, and a trade in wine and cheese. Pop. (1872) 10,845; (1891) 12,573. Dôle, the birth-place of Pasteur, is the Dola Sequanorum of the Romans, of whom many traces remain. It was in the 15-17th centuries a strong and oft-disputed fortress, and the capital of the Franche-Comté (q.v.), with a university and a parliament.