Entry
Dijon — Capital of Burgundy, seat of a parlement under the Ancien Régime
Former capital of the dukes of Burgundy, a city of parlement and magistrates — among them those who destined the reign’s greatest orator for the Church. (Editorial synthesis)
Dijon is located in the Côte-d’Or. (source: INSEE, Code officiel géographique)
5 people born in Dijon are recorded: Bossuet, Charles the Bold, Gustave Eiffel, John the Fearless, and Rameau.
Answers are drawn from a corpus established and verified by an editorial team; each one shows its source.
When a piece of information is not in that collection, the encyclopedia says so rather than inventing it — that principle is what makes every answer it does give trustworthy.