Pierre de Saint-Julien de Balleure, born in 1519 at the Château de Balleure

Château de Balleure

The Château de Balleure is a castle in the commune of Étrigny in the Saône-et-Loire département of France.-Description:The castle has a rectangular plan confined by circular towers...

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Étrigny

Étrigny is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.It is about south of Chalon-sur-Saône and north of Lyon.-Population:-References:*...

), died in 1593, was a famous Burgundian historian of the Renaissance period

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

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This erudite provincial notably wrote a history of the Burgundians, published while he was Dean of Chalon-sur-Saône

Chalon-sur-Saône

Chalon-sur-Saône is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the largest city in the department; however, the department capital is the smaller city of Mâcon....

. De l’origine des Bourgongnons, et antiquité des estats de Bourgongne was printed in 1581 in Paris, "chez Nicolas Chesneau, ruë Sainct Jacques, au Chesne Verd" (chez Nicolas Chesneau, Rue Saint Jacques, at the [sign of the] green oak).

His tombstone may be seen in the church of Saint-Vincent in Chalon-sur-Saône.