BEAUNE

a town, France, department d*Or, at the foot of a hill on the Bouzeoise, 23 miles H.S.W. Dijon, with 10,907 inhabitants. It is rounded vdih planted ramparts, which furnish pleasant promenade; is well built, and has a hand- Home church, and a large hospital, founded in by Nicholas Bollin, chancellor of Philip the Good, duke of Bui^ndy. Beaune has also a public rary containing about 42,000 vols, with 500 manuscripts, a very fine public garden, a theatre, . manufactures, though still of some importance, never recovered the shock which they received tho revocation of the Edict of Nantes, when Calvioistic families, who gave employment to workmen, were driven into exile. The trade chiefly in the Burgundy wines of the district, in agricultural produce. The celebrated Gaspard Monge, the chief improver, if not inventor, of scriptive geometry, and one of the founders of polytechnic school, was bom here, and a monument was erected to him here in 1849.