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Fontaine-lès-Dijon

Fontaine-lès-Dijon is a small town just north of Dijon in the Côte-d'Or department of Burgundy. It is the birthplace of Bernard of Clairvaux, born there in 1090 in the castle of his father, the knight Tescelin, and the site of his family home has long been a place of pilgrimage in his honour.

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Fontaine-lès-Dijon. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/fontaine-les-dijon
MLA: “Fontaine-lès-Dijon.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/fontaine-les-dijon. Accessed .
Chicago: The Epoch Institute. “Fontaine-lès-Dijon.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/fontaine-les-dijon.
Harvard: The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Fontaine-lès-Dijon’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/fontaine-les-dijon (Accessed: ).

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