He was the director of the École de Dessin (School of Drawing) in Semur-en-Auxois.
Jean-François Champagne (Semur-en-Auxois, 1 July 1751 - Paris, 14 September 1813, was a French scholar.
Louis Marie Florent de Lomont d'Haraucourt, duke of Châtelet (20 November 1727, Semur-en-Auxois, Côte-d'Or - 13 December 1793, Paris), was a French army officer, nobleman and diplomat.
The river's upper valley is used by the Canal de Bourgogne and the Autoroute A6 but the two diverge and the river passes between them, alone towards the small town of Semur-en-Auxois.
The royalist members of the other provincial parliaments also split off—the royalist members of the parlement de Rouen seceded to Caen, those in the parlement de Toulouse to Carcassonne, and those of parlement de Dijon to Semur and to Flavigny.