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Autun

French town in the département of Saône-et-Loire, 80 km/50 mi northwest of Mâcon, on the River Arroux; population (1999) 16,400. It has metallurgical, furniture, and oil-shale industries; tourism is important. Roman remains include a pyramid, a theatre, and two gates. There is also a cathedral, mainly of the 12th century.

Autun was a city of Roman Gaul, known as Augustodunum, with a school of rhetoric. Destroyed in 240 by Tetricus, and rebuilt by Constantine the Great, the city was was successively sacked by the Vandals (406), the Burgundians (414), the Huns (451), the Franks (534), the Arabs (739), the Normans (1095), and the English (1379).

The cathedral has a sculptured scene over the front entrance by the Romanesque sculptor Gislebertus, showing the Last Judgement (about 1130).


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In October 1627, a conflict between the Parlement and the Chambre des Comptes spilled into the streets when a crowd rioted in an attempt to block the latter's exile to Autun.
How familiar this patristic interpretation remained in the later Middle Ages may be seen in the Speculum Ecclesiae, a collection of sermons compiled by Honorius of Autun in the first half of the twelfth century.
 
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