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BEAUNE

Volume 3 · 67 words · 1815 Edition

a handsome town of France, in Burgundy, remarkable for its excellent wine, and for an hospital founded here in 1443. Its collegiate church is also one of the finest in France; the great altar is adorned with a table enriched with jewels; and its organs are placed on a piece of architecture which is the admiration of the curious. E. Long. 4. 50. N. Lat. 47. 2.