The two armies first clashed at Tinurtium (Tournus), where Severus had the better day but was unable to obtain the decisive victory he needed.
When he eventually submitted and returned to France, he was first exiled to his Abbey of Tournus, soon given a little more freedom of movement, but forbidden to enter Paris.
Philibert died and was buried at Heriou, but in 836 the monks of Noirmoutier abandoned their home in the face of the Viking attacks to seek refuge on the mainland, in 875 finally settling with the relics of Philibert in the abbey at Tournus named in his honour, where the great church of St Philibert at Tournus still stands.
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Emiland Gauthey also built several bridges in Burgundy: (Gueugnon (1787), Navilly (1782–1790) and Chalon-sur-Saône (1790–1791), and, as architect, the Hôtel de ville of Tournus (1771), the Theater at Chalon-sur-Saône (1778) and churches at Givry (1772–1791) and Louhans.