POLIGNY  , a

town of eastern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Jura, 18 m . N . N.E. of Lons-le-Saunier on the Paris-Lyons railway . Pop . (1906), 3756 . The town lies in the valley of the Glantine at the base of a hill crowned by the ruins of the old castle of Grimont, once the repository of the archives of the county of Burgundy . The church of Montivillard, its most remarkable building, dates in the oldest portions. from the 12th century, its chief features being a Romanesque tower and reredos of the Renaissance period . Amongst the other old buildings of the town, the church of St Hippolyte, of the first half of the 15th century, and a convent-church serving as corn market are of some interest . The tribunal of first instance belonging to the arrondissement is at Arbois . Poligny has a sub-prefecture, a communal college and a school of dairy instruction . Under the name of Polemniacum the town seems to have existed at the time of the Roman occupation .