Bygone Is

Origins

"From time immemorial, because of its geographical situation, it has been a resting-place for merchants and travellers, a halt by the river, at the junction where roads meet, which come down from the high valley of the Ignon, from the chalk hills to the south of the Langres plateau, from the fertile Dijon plains."

(Extract from Le Canton d'Is-sur-Tille en 1900 à travers les cartes postales, by Joël Mangin)

Excavations carried out in the 19th century prove that the Romans knew Is and that Saturn worship took place locally. Nevertheless it wasn’t until 721 that the name of the town was first recorded, in a document which ceded it to Flavigny Abbey.

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