ancient palace of the
dukes of Burgundy there remain two towers, the Tour de la Terrasse and
the Tour de Bar, the guard-room and the kitchens; these now form part of
the hotel de ville, the rest of which belongs to the 17th and 18th
centuries. This building contains an archaeological museum with a
collection of Roman stone monuments; the archives of the town; and the
principal museum, which, besides valuable paintings and other works of
art, contains the magnificent tombs of Philip the Bold and John the
Fearless, dukes of Burgundy. These were transferred from the Chartreuse
of Dijon (or of Champmol), built by Philip the Bold as a mausoleum, now
replaced by a lunatic asylum. Relics of it survive in the old Gothic
entrance, the portal of the church, a tower and the well of Moses, which
is adorned with statues of Moses and the prophets by Claux Sluter (fl.
end of 14th century), the Dutch sculptor, who also designed the tomb of
Philip the Bold. The Palais de Justice, which belongs to the reign of
Louis XII., is of interest as the former seat of the _parlement_ of
Burgundy. Dijon possesses several houses of the 15th, 16th and 17th
centuries, notably the Maison Richard in the Gothic, and the Hotel Vogue
in the Renaissance style. St Bernard, the composer J. P. Rameau and the
sculptor Francois Rude have statues in the town, of which they were
natives. There are also monuments to those inhabitants of Dijon who fell
in the engagement before the town in 1870, and to President Carnot and
Garibaldi.

The town is important as the seat of a prefecture, a bishopric, a court
of appeal and a court of assizes, and as centre of an academie
(educational district). There are tribunals of first instance and of
commerce, a board of trade-arbitrators, a chamber of commerce, an
exchange (occupying the former cathedral of St Etienne), and an
important branch of the Bank of France. Its educational establishments
include faculties of law, of science and of letters, a preparatory
school of medicine and pharmacy, a higher school of commerce, a school
of fine art, a conservatoire of music, _lycees_ and training colleges,
and there is a public library with about 100,000 volumes.

Dijon is well known for its mustard, and for the black currant liqueur
called _cassis de Dijon_; its industries include the manufacture of
machinery, automobiles, bicycles, soap, biscuits, brandy, leather, boots
and shoes, candles and hosiery. There are also flour mills, brew