Oslon
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Oslon is a small village four kilometers away from Chalon-sur-Saône and is a beautiful place with rolling hills and forests.
The village was founded circa 1850 when the French Postal Services installed a forepost alongside the railroad. Previously the region had been populated by diverse immigration which started under the Roman Empire which had a then a great commercial route (Via Apia) and stop over a few miles away in the city of Autun.
The Burgundy "Bresse" area starts at Oslon and finishes north and east of Lyon is famous as the prime area where locals eat snails and also produces good wines.
The most famous people from the village are Nicephore Niepce who invented modern photography and the tycoon family which created Rhone-Poulenc the French Fortune 200 conglomerate.
The architectural style is square house in sandy tones with steep roofs like mountain chalets as winters are very cold and snowy. This year Oslon was elected flowery city of the year by the French national board of tourism.
This typical French village has some thousand inhabitants and has a school with three primary classes, a butcher and grocery store but no post office or bank.
Oslon is the first city resistance fighters went to when entering the free zone after the invasion by Germany during WW2. Chalon-sur-Saône was the limit Germans had stopped at. Many Frenchmen died trying to swim across to Oslon to the free zone.
sources are /vivre en bourgogne/Jtomlinson1967 22:59, 6 February 2007 (UTC) by john tomlinson jr
