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Mouchard (Municipality, Jura, France)

Flag of Mouchard - Image by Ivan Sache, 8 March 2010

Presentation of Mouchard
Flag of Mouchard

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Presentation of Mouchard

The municipality of Mouchard (1,198 inhabitants in 2006; 618 ha) is located in the Jura mountains, 10 km north-east of Arbois. The former municipality of Certéméry was incorporated to Mouchard on 15 November 1972.

Mouchard is located in the middle of a main forest of Jura. The village is the site of the Wood Secondary School (Lycée du Bois), the only secondary school in France specifically dedicated to wood transformation. Founded in 1883, the École du Bois was inaugurated in 1886, renamed École Pratique de Commerce et d'Industrie in 1929, École Régionale du Bois in 1939 and Collége Technique du Bois in 1950. Nationalized in 1961, the school was granted the status of Lycée d'État in 1967. The school has workshops for wood primary transformation (sawing, sharpening, drying) and secondary transformation (joinery and carpentry, including computer-aided technics).
The Mouchard railway station is a main local node, with the Y-shaped junction of the Paris-Lausanne (Lyria) TGV line and of the Lyon- Strasbourg line.

Ivan Sache, 8 March 2010

Flag of Mouchard

The flag of Mouchard, as seen hoisted on the town hall in August 2005 (photo), is vertically divided green-white.
The colours of the flag are those of the charges on the municipal arms, De sable au lion d'argent, armé, lampassé et couronné d'or, au chef du même chargé de trois chênes arrachés de sinople ("Sable a lion argent armed langued and crowned or, a chief of the same three oaks eradicated vert").

Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 8 March 2010