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The abbey church built by Gregory of Langres was superseded by a Romanesque basilica, which collapsed in 1272 and was replaced by the present Dijon cathedral, dedicated to Benignus, where the shrine survived an earthquake in 1280 and the French Revolution. His purported sarcophagus can still be seen in the crypt. Cathedral of Saint Bénigne, Dijon
Dijon mustard is not necessarily produced near Dijon, as the term is regarded as genericized under European Union law, so that it cannot be registered for protected designation of origin status. [20] Most Dijon mustard (brands such as Amora or Maille ) is produced industrially and over 90% of mustard seed used in local production is imported ...
The museum displays life-size plaster casts acquired by the Dijon municipality between 1887 and 1910, which are major works by the artist exhibited in other museums in France (including the Louvre in Paris). The museum also displays archaeological crypt of the 11th century, and the former St. Stephen's Gate of the Dijon castrum of the 3rd ...
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Dijon Cathedral, or the Cathedral of Saint Benignus of Dijon (French: Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne de Dijon), is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Dijon, Burgundy, France, and dedicated to Saint Benignus of Dijon. The Gothic cathedral building, constructed between 1280 and 1325, and dedicated on 9 April 1393, is a listed national ...
1709 – St. Anne's Church, Dijon built. 1722 – University of Dijon founded. [9] 1731 – Roman Catholic diocese of Dijon established. [10] 1740 – Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon constituted. [11] 1763 – Jesuits expelled. 1784 - Birth of François Rude, later a sculptor. [1] 1787 – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon ...
On 12 February, a VC ambush had killed nine Marines from Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines. [2]: 345 A five-man Marine "hunter-killer" patrol led by Lance Corporal Randell D. Herrod, who had been in the country for seven months, alongside Private Thomas R. Boyd Jr., PFC Samuel G. Green, PFC Michael A. Schwarz and Lance Corporal Michael S. Krichten had been in Vietnam for only a month, was ...
The government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam maintains that between 2 September 1945 and 2 July 1976 only the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of South Vietnam were legitimate governments and that any rival governments were illegal ("reactionary" or "counter-revolutionary") organisations.