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ARBOIS, a town of eastern France, among the wine-growing northern foothills of the Jura, about 3om. S.S.W. of Besancon, in the department of Jura. Pop. , The church of St. Just, founded in the loth century, has a 16th-century belfry and good wood-carving. Two towers of the old walls remain, and there is a château of the dukes of Burgundy. A church of 1384 is used as market-hall. At Arbois Pasteur spent most of his youth. The red and white wines of the vicinity are famous.