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Ivory
Ivory
Commune
	The church in Ivory
	Location of Ivory
	Ivory Ivory
	Coordinates: 46°54′48″N 5°51′37″E / 46.9133°N 5.8603°E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Jura
Arrondissement	Dole
Canton	Arbois
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Pierre Duquet
Area 1	9.13 km2 (3.53 sq mi)
Population (2021)	92
• Density	10/km2 (26/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	39267 /39110
Elevation	544–632 m (1,785–2,073 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ivory (French pronunciation: [ivɔʁi]) is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.^[3]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	128	—
1975	110	−2.14%
1982	126	+1.96%
1990	107	−2.02%
1999	84	−2.65%
2009	83	−0.12%
2014	87	+0.95%
2020	98	+2.00%
Source: INSEE^[4]

Old tree

In a farmyard in the village is a huge old lime tree.^[5] 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.