The museum dedicated to Louis Pasteur is located beside the Canal des Taneurs in Dole, eastern France SE of Dijon next to the River Doubs.
DOLE, is a French town or commune in the department of Jura, 29 m. of Dijon. It occupies a sloping hill overlooking the forest of Chaux, on the River Doubs and the canal from the Rhone to the Rhine . The streets are steep and narrow, containing many old houses whose architecture reflects the onetime Spanish occupation of the town. The principal buildings are the church of Notre Dame, a Gothic structure of the 16th century; the college, once a Jesuit establishment, which contains the library and a museum of paintings and has a Renaissance chapel . The birth in the town of microbiologist and chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) is commemorated by a museum in his name. Dole, the ancient Dola, was in Roman times the meeting place of several roads, and considerable remains have been found there; but in the year 1479 the town was taken by the forces of Louis XI., and so completely sacked that only the house of Jean Vurry, as it is still called, and two other buildings were left standing. It subsequently came into the hands of Maximilian of Austria, and in 1530 was fortified by Charles V. In 1668 and 1674 it was captured by the French and lost its parliament and its university founded by Philippe de Bon of Burgundy, both of which were transferred by Louis XIV. to Besancon in 1422.
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Location: Dole, France
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