DOLE, a town of eastern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Jura, 29 m. S.E. of Dijon on the Paris-Lyon railway. Pop. 0931), 14,86i. DOle, the ancient Dola, was in Roman times the meeting place of several roads, and considerable remains have been found there; in the later middle ages, till 1648, it was the capital of Franche Comte and seat of a parlement and a university; but in 1479 the town was taken and destroyed by Louis XI. It subsequently came into the hands of Maximilian of Austria, and in 153o was fortified by Charles V. In 1668 and 1674 it was captured by the French and lost its parlement and university, both of which were transferred by Louis XIV. to Besancon. DOle occupies the slope of a hill overlooking the forest of Chaux, on the right bank of the Doubs, and of the canal from the Rhone to the Rhine which accompanies that river. The steep, narrow streets, contain many old houses recalling, in their archi lecture, the Spanish occupation of the town. The church of Notre Dame is Gothic of the i6th century. The college, once a Jesuit establishment contains the library and a museum of paintings and has a chapel of the Renaissance period; the Hotel-Dieu and hotel de ville are both i7th century buildings; and the law court occu pies an old convent of the Cordeliers. In the courtyard of the hotel de ville stands an old tower dating from the i5th century. The birth of Louis Pasteur (1822) in the town is commemorated by a monument, and there is also a monument to Jules Grevy. Dole is the seat of a sub-prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce. Metal-founding and the manufacture of pumps, kitchen-ranges and other iron goods, chemical products, machin ery, blue and blacking, and pastry, are among the industries. There is a good trade in agricultural produce and live stock, and in wood, iron, coal and the stone of the vicinity. Wine is largely produced in the district.