Ivory, Jura

Ivory is a commune in the Jura department in Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	209	—
1806	328	+56.9%
1821	291	−11.3%
1831	329	+13.1%
1841	307	−6.7%
1851	327	+6.5%
1861	260	−20.5%
1872	213	−18.1%
1881	223	+4.7%
1891	202	−9.4%
1901	201	−0.5%
1911	195	−3.0%
1921	208	+6.7%
1931	194	−6.7%
1946	177	−8.8%
1954	171	−3.4%
1962	150	−12.3%
1968	128	−14.7%
1975	110	−14.1%
1982	126	+14.5%
1990	107	−15.1%
1999	84	−21.5%
2006	86	+2.4%
2012	85	−1.2%

Old tree

In a farmyard in the village is a huge old lime tree. Now old and hollow, the trunk could accommodate a table for six or eight diners. It is said to have been planted to mark the marriage of Maria, nineteen-year-old daughter and heiress of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, to Emperor Maximilian I. The marriage took place on 18 August 1477. Maria's father had died in battle outside Nancy on 5 January that same year. Why plant a tree in Ivory? Who planted it? It was completely unmarked and unknown until a passing visitor told the local Tourist Board the story and the tree was ring fenced and its history recorded on a plaque.

See also

• Communes of the Jura department

References

• INSEE statistics