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Encyclopedia Britannica



AUXONNE

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 50 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AUD-BAI
AUXONNE , a town of eastern France, in the department of Cote d'Or, 19 m. E.S.E. of Dijon on the Paris-Lyon rail-way to Belfort. Pop. (1906) 2766 (town); 6307 (commune). Auxonne is a quiet town situated in a wide plain on the left bank of the Saone. It preserves remains of ramparts, a stronghold of the 16th century flanked by cylindrical towers, and a sculptured gateway of the 15th century. Vauban restored these works in the latter half of the 17th century, and built the arsenal now used as a market. The
church
  of Notre-Dame
dates
  from the 14th century. Of the two towers surmounting its triple porch only that to the
south
  is finished. A lofty spire rises above a third tower over the crossing. The hotel de ville (15th century) and some houses of the Renaissance period are also of architectural
interest
 . A statue of
Napoleon
  I. as a sub-
lieutenant
  commemorates his sojourns in the town from 1788 to 1791. Auxonne has a tribunal of commerce and a communal college. Its
industries
  are unimportant, but it has a large
trade
  in the vegetables produced by the numerous market gardens in the vicinity.
Auxonne, the name of which is derived from its position on the Saone (ad Swum), was in the middle ages
chief
  place of a countship, which in the first half of the 13th century passed to the dukes of
Burgundy
 . The town received a charter in 1229 and derived some importance from the mint which the dukes of
Burgundy
  founded in it. It was invested by the allies in 1814, and surrendered to an Austrian force in the following year.


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