Beaune

Demography

Geography

History

Rebirth

Charles IX, coming from Dijon, enters the city on May 30th, 1564 at the time of royal sound Tour de France (1564 - 1566), accompanied by the Cour and Large by the kingdom: his/her brother the duke of Anjou, Henri de Navarre, cardinal of Bourbon and Lorraine : they receive a triumphal reception.

In 1568, Wolfgang of Bavaria, duke of Double-decker, which leads reinforcements to the Protestants, enters the city and plunders it.

Contemporary time

Beaune is a highway triangle. It is there that occurred the Accident of Beaune of the the July 31st 1982 which remains today still, most fatal of France.

Heraldic

Malta-Brown, in illustrated France , brings back two Blasonnement S for the traditional weapons of the town of Beaune:

1°) “until 1540”: “Money Bellonne on a bottom of azure, upright, holding of the right hand a naked sword, and the left pressed on the chest. ” - Note:: this blasonnement in its statement…

is not very orthodoxe

2°) “after 1540”: “Of azure, with a Notre-Dame, holding the Jesus child of the left hand, and a bunch of grapes of the hand droite ; the Jesus child holding a vine stock of gold,” with these words: “CAUSA NOSTRÆ LÆTITIÆ”, changed later into those: “ORBIS and URBIS HONOR”.

Economy

Beaune is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Beaune.

Administration

See the article: List of the mayors of Beaune

Famous characters

Claude Mallemans de Messanges (1653 - 1723), Physicist
François Pasumot (1733 - 1804), engineer geographer and archeologist
Gaspard Monge (1746 - 1818), mathematician and Politician
Xavier Forneret (1809 - 1884), playwright, poet and journalist
Felix Ziem (1821 - 1911), native painter of Beaune
Etienne-Jules Marey (1830 - 1904), doctor and physiologist
Edouard Jolly (1898 - 1982), manufacturer of planes Jodel
Nicolas Rolin (1376 - 1462), founder of the Old people's homes of Beaune
Alfred de Vergnette de Lamotte (1806 - 1886), known by its work on the Wine (conservation of the wine by the heating and congelation)

Culture

Tourist monuments and places

Beaune is classified Ville of Art and History.

the Hospital of Beaune
Collégiale Notre-Dame
Hôpital of the Holy Trinity says old people's home of the Charity of Beaune
Musée of the Art schools
Musée Marey
Musée of the Wine located in the Hôtel of the Ducs of Burgundy
Tour of the clock
Remparts : contrary to Dijon, Beaune kept most of its strengthened belt. The turn of the ramparts constitutes a beautiful walk and makes it possible to admire several turns, bastions and boulevards.
House Rebirth: 18 rue de Lorraine. This house allotted to the Burgundian architect Hugues SAMBIN (Gray 1518-Dijon about 1601) is classified with the Inventory of the Historic buildings (December 1927). It since the 19th century is occupied by a notarial study. It is in one of the offices giving on the court that Maître Paul Laneyrie, notary and resistant were stopped in 1944 by Gestapo to be off-set in Neuengamme (Germany), of which it did not return.

Cultural events

Festival of Beaune, international festival of opera baroque (Web site)

Gastronomy

Beaune is the capital of the wines of Burgundy. It is located in the middle of the Gold Coast, surrounded by multiple villages with the prestigious names for all the wine amateurs: Pommard, Meursault, Pernand-Vergelesses, Puligny-Montrachet…

Twinnings

The town of Beaune is twinned with four different cities since many years:

, since June 12th, 1960
, since June 11th, 1962
, since May 23rd, 1976
, since September 18th, 1976

All these cities have jointly to be located in wine-producing areas. Moreover, the city studies the possibility of creating new twinnings with the England and the the United States.

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