Autun (fra)

Autun

Autun ranks 3,233rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind La Guaira, Dolores, Uruguay, and Frauenfeld. Memorable people born in Autun include Louis Renault, Germain of Paris, and Leodegar. Memorable people who died in Autun include Adalbert of Italy, and Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy. Autun has been the birth place of many religious figures, and lawyers and the death place of many politicians, and philosophers. Autun is located in France.

Autun is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France. It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Roman capital to the Gallic people Aedui, who had Bibracte as their political centre. In Roman times the city may have been home to 30,000 to 100,000 people, according to different estimates. Nowadays, the commune has a population of about 15,000. Read more on Wikipedia