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Beaune

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Beaune

City in the département of Côte-d'Or, France, 35 km/22 mi southwest of Dijon; population (1999) 21,900. It is the centre of the Burgundian wine trade, and has a wine museum, the Musée du Vin de Bourgogne. Industries include the production of agricultural equipment, casks, oil, white metal, and mustard. Notable buildings in the town include two 12th-century churches and a hospital, St Etienne, founded in 1443.

History

Beaune was the capital of a separate duchy under Charlemagne (742–814), but was united with Burgundy in 1227, becoming the first seat of the Burgundian parliament. The mathematician and chemist Gustave Monge was born here in 1746.



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* A capital little out-of-the-way restaurant, in the neighbourhood of - , where you can get one of the best-cooked and cheapest little French dinners or suppers that I know of, with an excellent bottle of Beaune, for three-and-six; and which I am not going to be idiot enough to advertise.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
Yet upon that afternoon, whether it was the Beaune which I had taken with my lunch, or the additional exasperation produced by the extreme deliberation of his manner, I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer.
Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
"It was at the Petit Bourbon," replied Gervaise, with no less spirit, "and this is what monsieur the cardinal's procurator presented to them: twelve double quarts of hippocras, white, claret, and red; twenty-four boxes of double Lyons marchpane, gilded; as many torches, worth two livres a piece; and six demi-queues* of Beaune wine, white and claret, the best that could be found.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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