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Origin and history

This house, located at 13 rue du Commerce in Lons-le-Saunier, dates from the 4th quarter of the 17th and 18th centuries. It is representative of the civil architecture of this period in the region, with a facade inscribed as Monument Historic by decree of 2 December 1926. Its downtown location suggests a role in the urban life of the time, although details of its occupants or its original function are not specified in the available sources.

Lons-le-Saunier, capital of the Jura department, was in the 17th and 18th centuries a developing city, marked by artisanal and commercial activities. The bourgeois houses of that time often reflected local prosperity, linked in particular to the exploitation of salt and regional exchanges. This type of building, with its protected architectural elements, reflects the urban and social evolution of the Franche-Comté under the Old Regime and at the beginning of the modern period.

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