Burgundy

Gondioc (c. 420 – c. 473), also called Gunderic and Gundowech, was a king of the Burgundians who held a senior command in the Roman army. Under his authority, the foundations were laid for the later Burgundian kingdom. Around 455, he led the Burgundian people together with his brother Chilperic I.

Épinac (French pronunciation: [epinak]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department located in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

The Hottinguer coal mine was one of the main collieries of the Épinac coal mine. The buildings, raised between 1872 and 1876, housed a revolutionary atmospheric extraction system: a piston moving in a 558 m-high tube, machined in Le Creusot (an original technique by engineer Zulma Blanchet), rather than by traditional cables, which at the time were unable to descend to such depths (over 600 m), making it the deepest mine shaft in France when it was commissioned in 1871. After its closure in 1936, it was converted into a paint factory in 1948 by the BITULAC company, before being abandoned in 1998, barely ten years after the fire of March 12, 1989. It was listed as a historic monument by decree on November 26, 1992, and was classified by decree on October 11, 2022, which superseded the original listing. The Malakoff Tower and its wings have been undergoing renovation since late 2012. The construction of a photovoltaic power plant near the old buildings is currently under study.

The Château de Sully, situated between Autun and Beaune (Saône-et-Loire), is the largest of the Renaissance châteaux of southern Burgundy. Paired outbuildings of a more vernacular character face each other across a grassed forecourt, while to the rear is the vegetable garden, fenced by fruit trees. The château is approached by an axial stone bridge across its moat. The façades express the traditionally defensive character of the rez-de-chaussée, the ground floor, and the richer, more open aspect of the piano nobile, articulated by pilasters. Under the central pediment that breaks the line of a traditional sloping slate roof, the arched portal is scaled to admit riders and carriages. Four similarly treated ranges, flanked by matching angled corner towers with pyramidal roofs and surrounded by the moat, enclose a Renaissance courtyard built for the Maréchal de Saulx-Tavanes, confidant of Catherine de' Medici. The splendor of the interior courtyard shows that this château, though symmetrical and regular, still looks inwards. A rusticated ground floor with arch-headed windows supports a main floor where paired pilaster-defined bays that alternate between windows and coved niches. The historic chateau of the MacMahon family, from the marriage of the heiress Charlotte de Morey, with Jean-Baptiste de MacMahon, Sully was the birthplace of the monarchist Field Marshal, Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, who was President of the French Third Republic from 1873 to 1879. Charles-Marie and Marthe de Vogüé, Marquise de Mac Mahon, restored some of the château during their ownership of the property. The Château de Sully remains the home of the present duchesse de Magenta and her family. The château of Henri IV's minister, Maximilien de Béthune and the ducs de Sully, is the Château de Sully-sur-Loire.

Sully is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Thury (French pronunciation: [tyʁi] ) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.

La Vesvre de Saisy is a village in Burgundy. It is part of the Commune of Saisy in the département of Saône-et-Loire, France.

La Forêt is a village in Burgundy. It is part of the Commune of Saisy in Saône-et-Loire département.

Saint-Pierre-en-Vaux (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ ɑ̃ vo]) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.

Tintry (French pronunciation: [tɛ̃tʁi]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Saint-Martin-de-Commune (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ maʁtɛ̃ də kɔmyn]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Changey is a village in Burgundy, France. It is part of the Commune of Saisy in the Saône-et-Loire département.