Ceyzériat () is a commune in the

Ain Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where ...

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in eastern

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Ceyzériat station Ceyzériat station (French: ''Gare de Ceyzériat'') is a French railway station located in commune of Ceyzériat, Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is located at kilometric point (KP) 9.864 on the Bourg-en-Bresse—Belleg ...

has rail connections to Bourg-en-Bresse and Oyonnax.

History

Hippolyte Paul Jayr Hippolyte Paul Jayr (25 December 1801 - 1900) was a French administrator and politician. He was Minister of Public Works in the last year of the July Monarchy. Life Hippolyte Paul Jayr was born in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, on 25 December 1801. He w ...

, twice minister during the

July monarchy The July Monarchy (french: Monarchie de Juillet), officially the Kingdom of France (french: Royaume de France), was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under , starting on 26 July 1830, with the July Revolution of 1830, and ending 23 ...

, was mayor of the commune at the end of the 19th century. The French archaeologist and assyriologist

Maurice Pézard Maurice Pézard (27 May 1876, Reims – 7 October 1923, Ceyzériat) was a French archaeologist and assyriologist. Biographie He studied at the École du Louvre and presented in 1905 his thesis entitled ''Nouveaux faits grammaticaux d'après les c ...

(1876–1923) died in this commune.

Geography

Climate

Ceyzériat has a

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(

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''Cfb''). The average annual temperature in Ceyzériat is . The average annual rainfall is with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Ceyzériat was on 4 August 2022; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 20 December 2009.

Politics and administration

History

Geography

Climate

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Population

See also