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| • | Glay, Doubs, France is a village in east-central France in the Jura mountains near the border with Switzerland. The population is about 1,000 people.
The village is first historically reported in the twelfth century as a centre for glass making, and the name Glay comes from the French word for glass.
Glay was in an area under the control of the Duke of Burgundy and administered from Neuchatel in the 13th century, and at least twice the town sought to free itself from that control by force of arms.
The small area around Glay has historically been Protestant, despite the fact that France overall is predominantly Catholic.
In recent years the town had benefitted from the presence of the Centre de Glay, which was most recently a convention centre with a 120-room hotel designed to draw more visiors to the area. The facility was founded in 1823 by the Swiss minister Father Jacquet to provide vocational training to disadvantaged Protestant children from the area. It later sheltered a private college, and was converted to a conference centre in 1953. The Centre closed in September, 2004 for budgetary reasons, and because the older buildings did not meet current European Union building codes. The closing was lamented as a loss to the Protestant communities of the area.
Source: [wikipedia: glay, doubs, france]
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