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AUXONNE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUXONNE , a See also:

town of eastern See also:France, in the See also:department of Cote d'Or, 19 m. E.S.E. of See also:Dijon on the See also:Paris-See also:Lyon See also:rail-way to See also:Belfort. Pop. (1906) 2766 (town); 6307 (See also:commune). Auxonne is a quiet town situated in a wide See also:plain on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Saone. It preserves remains of ramparts, a stronghold of the 16th See also:century flanked by cylindrical towers, and a sculptured gateway of the 15th century. See also:Vauban restored these See also:works in the latter See also:half of the 17th century, and built the See also:arsenal now used as a See also:market. The See also:church of Notre-See also:Dame See also:dates from the 14th century. Of the two towers surmounting its triple See also:porch only that to the See also:south is finished. A lofty See also:spire rises above a third See also:tower over the See also:crossing. The hotel de ville (15th century) and some houses of the See also:Renaissance See also:period are also of architectural See also:interest. A statue of See also:Napoleon I. as a sub-See also:lieutenant commemorates his sojourns in the town from 1788 to 1791.

Auxonne has a tribunal of See also:

commerce and a communal See also:college. Its See also:industries are unimportant, but it has a large See also: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 See also:middle ages See also:chief See also:place of a countship, which in the first half of the 13th century passed to the See also:dukes of See also:Burgundy. The town received a See also:charter in 1229 and derived some importance from the See also:mint which the dukes of Burgundy founded in it. It was invested by the See also:allies in 1814, and surrendered to an See also:Austrian force in the following See also:year.

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