La Bruyère () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, in eastern France.
It was the birthplace (1874) of Albert Mathiez, a prominent historian of the French Revolution, born to a very local innkeeper's family, who later moved to the city of Paris and achieved a successful academic career.Jean Dautry, "ALBERT MATHIEZ, HISTORIEN DE LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE", Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 34e Année, No. 168 (Avril-Juin 1962), pp. 129-151
See also Communes of the Haute-Saône department
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