BEAUNE, an arrondissement of the department of Côte d'Or, in France, extending over 769 square miles, and comprehending 10 cantons and 201 communes. Population
(1851) 124,206. The chief city, of the same name, is situated on the river Buzoize, twenty-three miles S.S.W. of Dijon on the Paris and Lyons railway, in a district highly productive of the best Burgundy wine. Pop. (1851) 10,800.