1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TOURNUS, a town of east-central France, in the department of Saone-et-Loire, on the right bank of the Sa6ne, 20 m. N. by E. of Macon on the Paris-Lyons railway. Pop. (1906), 3787. The church of St Philibert (early nth century) once belonging to the Benedictine abbey of Tournus, suppressed in 1785, is in the Burgundian Romanesque style. The facade lacks one of the two flanking towers originally designed for it. The nave is roofed with barrel vaulting, supported on tall cylindrical columns. The choir beneath which is…
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