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Lac de Coiselet

reservoir in France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ3215419 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lac de Coiselet (French pronunciation: [lak də kwazlɛ]) is a reservoir on the border between the Ain and Jura departments in France. Its surface area is 3.8 km2. The lake formed in 1970 after the Barrage de Coiselet was built at the confluence of the rivers Ain and Bienne.

Editorial summary

“Lac de Coiselet” enters the record as reservoir in France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Coiselet, reservoir and France can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Coiselet, reservoir and France.
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Why this record matters

“Lac de Coiselet” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Coiselet, reservoir and France provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3215419. Authority coordinates are 46.328, 5.617. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lac de Coiselet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.