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Chalon-sur-Saône (literally Chalon on Saône) is a city in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.[1]

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  1. 87 relations: A6 autoroute, Aedui, Alemanni, Ancient Diocese of Chalon-sur-Saône, Arboretum de Pézanin, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Atlantic Ocean, Élan Chalon, Besançon, Bicycle-sharing system, Black Sea, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Burgundy, Canal du Centre (France), Canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-1, Canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-2, Canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-3, Côte Chalonnaise, Chalon Cathedral, Chalon-sur-Saône station, Charolles, Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée, Cluny Abbey, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Communauté d'agglomération Le Grand Chalon, Communes of France, Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department, Concordat of 1801, Constanța, Constantius II, Dandy horse, Departments of France, Eugène Genet, Eusebius (consul 359), EV6 The Rivers Route, FC Chalon, Framatome, France, French Revolution, Gare de Lyon, Gundomadus, Guntram, Internal combustion engine, Jean Baptiste Félix Descuret, Joseph Touchemoulin, La Tène culture, Late antiquity, Le Colisée, Le Creusot, LNB Élite, ... Expand index (37 more) »

  2. Burgundy
  3. Gallia Lugdunensis

A6 autoroute

The A6, also known as the Autoroute du Soleil, Motorway of the Sun, (along with the A7), is an Autoroute in France, linking Paris to Lyon.

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Aedui

The Aedui or Haedui (Gaulish: *Aiduoi, 'the Ardent'; Aἴδουοι) were a Gallic tribe dwelling in what is now the region of Burgundy during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

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Alemanni

The Alemanni or Alamanni were a confederation of Germanic tribes.

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Ancient Diocese of Chalon-sur-Saône

The former French Catholic diocese of Chalon-sur-Saône (Lat.: dioecesis Cabilonensis) existed until the French Revolution.

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Arboretum de Pézanin

The Arboretum de Pézanin or Arboretum Domanial de Pézanin (Federal Arboretum of Pézanin) is an arboretum located in Dompierre-les-Ormes, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France.

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Arts et Métiers ParisTech

Arts et Métiers ParisTech is a French engineering and research institute of higher education.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Élan Chalon

Élan Sportif Chalonnais, commonly known as Élan Chalon, is a French professional basketball club that is based in Chalon-sur-Saône, France.

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Besançon

Besançon (archaic Bisanz; Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

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Bicycle-sharing system

A bicycle-sharing system, bike share program, public bicycle scheme, or public bike share (PBS) scheme, is a shared transport service where bicycles are available for shared use by individuals at low cost.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.

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Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: Borgogne-Franche-Comtât) is a region in eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté.

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Burgundy

Burgundy (Bourgogne; Burgundian: bourguignon) is a historical territory and former administrative region and province of east-central France.

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Canal du Centre (France)

The Canal du Centre, originally known as the Canal du Charollais, is a French canal running from Digoin, where it now joins the Canal latéral à la Loire, to the Saône at Chalon-sur-Saône.

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Canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-1

The canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-1 is an administrative division of the Saône-et-Loire department, eastern France.

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Canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-2

The canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-2 is an administrative division of the Saône-et-Loire department, eastern France.

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Canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-3

The canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-3 is an administrative division of the Saône-et-Loire department, eastern France.

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Côte Chalonnaise

Côte Chalonnaise is a subregion of the Burgundy wine region of France.

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Chalon Cathedral

Chalon Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Vincent de Chalon-sur-Saône) is a Roman Catholic church located in Chalon-sur-Saône.

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Chalon-sur-Saône station

Gare de Chalon-sur-Saône is the railway station serving the town Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire department, eastern France.

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Charolles

Charolles (Burgundian: Tsarolles) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Chalon-sur-Saône and Charolles are communes of Saône-et-Loire and subprefectures in France.

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Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée

The Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée ("Railway Company of Paris to Lyon and the Mediterranean"), also known as the Chemins de fer Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée or simply PLM, established in 1857, was one of France’s main railway companies until the nationalization of all French railways and establishment of the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) on.

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Cluny Abbey

Cluny Abbey (formerly also Cluni or Clugny) is a former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France.

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Commentarii de Bello Gallico (italic), also Bellum Gallicum (italic), is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative.

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Communauté d'agglomération Le Grand Chalon

Communauté d'agglomération Le Grand Chalon is an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Chalon-sur-Saône.

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Communes of France

The is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department

The following is a list of the 564 communes of the Saône-et-Loire department of France. Chalon-sur-Saône and communes of the Saône-et-Loire department are communes of Saône-et-Loire.

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Concordat of 1801

The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between the First French Republic and the Holy See, signed by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII on 15 July 1801 in Paris.

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Constanța

Constanța (Custantsa; Kyustendzha, or label; Dobrujan Tatar: Köstencĭ; Kōnstántza, or label; Köstence), historically known as Tomis or Tomi (Τόμις or Τόμοι), is a port city in the Dobruja historical region of Romania.

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Constantius II

Constantius II (Flavius Julius Constantius; Kōnstántios; 7 August 317 – 3 November 361) was Roman emperor from 337 to 361.

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Dandy horse

The dandy horse, a derogatory term for what was first called a Laufmaschine ("running machine" in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, or swiftwalker, is a human-powered vehicle that, being the first means of transport to make use of the two-wheeler principle, is regarded as the forerunner of the bicycle.

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes.

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Eugène Genet

Eugène Genet (20 April 1850, Chalon-sur-Saône - 21 April 1904) was a French politician belonging to the Radical Party.

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Eusebius (consul 359)

Flavius Eusebius (Εὐσέβιος; died after AD 371) was a Roman Senator, who was the brother-in-law of the emperor Constantius II.

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EV6 The Rivers Route

EuroVelo 6 (EV6), named the "Rivers Route", is a EuroVelo long-distance cycling route that runs along some of Europe's major rivers, including much of the Loire, some of the Saône, a short section of the upper Rhine and almost the entire length of Europe’s second longest river, the Danube — from the Atlantic coast of France to the city of Constanța on the Black Sea.

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FC Chalon

Football Club Chalon-sur-Saône (often referred to as Football Club Chalonnais) is a French football club based in the Commune of Chalon-sur-Saône, in the Saône-et-Loire department of eastern France.

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Framatome

Framatome is a French nuclear reactor business.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.

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Gare de Lyon

The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon, is one of the seven large mainline railway stations in Paris, France.

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Gundomadus

Gundomad (Gundomadus; ? - 357 AD) or Gundomar, was an Alemannic petty king in the area around Breisgau, Germany in the 4th century.

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Guntram

Saint Gontrand (c. 532 in Soissons – 28 March 592 in Chalon-sur-Saône), also called Gontran, Gontram, Guntram, Gunthram, Gunthchramn, and Guntramnus, was the king of the Kingdom of Orléans from AD 561 to AD 592.

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Internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.

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Jean Baptiste Félix Descuret

Jean Baptiste Félix Descuret (5 June 1795 – 27 November 1871) was a French physician and author who was a native of Chalon-sur-Saône.

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Joseph Touchemoulin

Joseph Touchemoulin (23 October 1727 – 25 October 1801) was a French violinist and composer of the classical period who mainly worked in Bonn and Regensburg.

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La Tène culture

The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture.

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Late antiquity

Late antiquity is sometimes defined as spanning from the end of classical antiquity to the local start of the Middle Ages, from around the late 3rd century up to the 7th or 8th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin depending on location.

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Le Colisée

Le Colisée is an indoor arena in Chalon-sur-Saône, France.

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Le Creusot

Le Creusot is a commune and industrial town in the Saône-et-Loire department, region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, eastern France. Chalon-sur-Saône and Le Creusot are Burgundy and communes of Saône-et-Loire.

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LNB Élite

The LNB Élite, currently known for sponsorship reasons as Betclic Élite, is the top-tier men's professional basketball league in France.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.

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Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport

Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (Aéroport de Lyon-Saint Exupéry) — formerly known as Lyon Satolas Airport — is an international airport of Lyon, the third-biggest city in France and an important transport facility for the entire Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

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Marseille-Saint-Charles station

Marseille-Saint-Charles (French: Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles) is the main railway station and intercity bus station of Marseille, France.

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Mâcon

Mâcon, historically anglicised as Mascon, is a city in east-central France. Chalon-sur-Saône and Mâcon are Burgundy, communes of Saône-et-Loire and Gallia Lugdunensis.

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Montchanin

Montchanin is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Chalon-sur-Saône and Montchanin are communes of Saône-et-Loire.

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Museum

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.

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Nantes

Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt) is a city in Loire-Atlantique of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. Chalon-sur-Saône and Nantes are Gallia Lugdunensis.

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Neuilly Yo Mama!

Neuilly Yo Mama! or Neuilly sa mère ! is a 2009 French comedy film directed by.

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Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography.

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Novara

Novara (Novarese) is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan.

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Omer Letorey

Omer Letorey (4 May 1873 – 21 March 1938) was a French composer.

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Paray-le-Monial

Paray-le-Monial is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Chalon-sur-Saône and Paray-le-Monial are communes of Saône-et-Loire.

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Photography

Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Pierre Lévêque

Pierre Lévêque (11 August 1921, in Chambéry – 5 March 2004, in Paris) was a 20th-century French historian of ancient and Hellenistic Greece.

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Pyréolophore

The Pyréolophore was an early internal combustion engine and the first made to power a boat. It was invented in the early 19th century in Chalon-sur-Saône, France, by the Niépce brothers: Nicéphore (who went on to invent photography) and Claude. In 1807 the brothers ran a prototype internal combustion engine, and on 20 July 1807 a patent was granted by Napoleon Bonaparte after it had successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône.

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RC Chalon

Racing Club Chalonnais, also known simply as RC Chalon is a French rugby union club from Chalon-sur-Saône.

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Regions of France

France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (régions, singular région), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status).

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Rock of Solutré

The Rock of Solutré (French: Roche de Solutré) is a limestone escarpment west of Mâcon, France, overlooking the commune of Solutré-Pouilly.

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Roger Grosjean

Roger Grosjean (25 July 1920 – 7 June 1975) was a French Air Force pilot, a double agent during World War II, and one of the founding fathers of Corsican prehistoric archaeology.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon

The Archdiocese of Lyon (Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis; Archidiocèse de Lyon), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Autun

The Diocese of Autun (–Chalon-sur-Saône–Mâcon–Cluny) (Latin: Dioecesis Augustodunensis (–Cabillonensis–Matisconensis–Cluniacensis); French: Diocèse d'Autun (–Chalon-sur-Saône–Mâcon–Cluny)), more simply known as the Diocese of Autun, is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France.

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Roman roads

Roman roads (viae Romanae; singular: via Romana; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

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Saône

The Saône (Sona; Arar) is a river in eastern France.

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Saône-et-Loire

Saône-et-Loire (Arpitan: Sona-et-Lêre) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France.

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Saint-Gobain

Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris and headquartered on the outskirts of Paris, at La Défense and in Courbevoie.

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Saint-Nazaire

Saint-Nazaire (Gallo: Saint-Nazère/Saint-Nazaer) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in traditional Brittany. Chalon-sur-Saône and Saint-Nazaire are subprefectures in France.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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Solingen

Solingen (Solich) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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St Helens, Merseyside

St Helens is a town in Merseyside, England, with a population of 102,629.

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Subprefectures in France

In France, a subprefecture (sous-préfecture) is the commune which is the administrative centre of a departmental arrondissement that does not contain the prefecture for its department.

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Suffragan bishop

A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.

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Town square

A square (or plaza, public square, or urban square) is an open public space used for various activities.

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Vadomarius

Vadomarius (Vadomar) was an Alemannic king and Roman general, who shared power with his brother Gundomadus.

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Velocipede

A velocipede is a human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels.

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Via Agrippa

Via Agrippa, is any stretch of the network of Roman roads in Gaul that was built by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, to whom Octavian entrusted the reorganization of the Gauls.

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View from the Window at Le Gras

View from the Window at Le Gras (Point de vue du Gras) is a heliographic image and the oldest surviving camera photograph.

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Vivant Denon

Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (4 January 1747 – 27 April 1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist.

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See also

Burgundy

Gallia Lugdunensis

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalon-sur-Saône

Also known as Cabillo, Cabillonum, Cabillumnum, Cabillunum, Cabyllona, Chalon sur Saône, Chalon-Sur-Sane, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, Chalons sur Saône, Chalons-Sur-Saone, Căbíllonum.

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