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![[BAUDOT, François.]](/photos/711/main/711.jpg "[BAUDOT, François.]")
Baudot, at various times maître des comptes and mayor of Dijon, here presented his evidence that the Burgundian town of Autun was the Gaulish city of ‘Bibracte’ described by Julius Caesar in the Gallic Wars, the site of Caesar’s 52BC victory over the Helvetii. The town of Beaune had previously been assumed as the site of Bibracte but Baudot here argues strongly against that view as recently expounded by Hughes de Salins, with archaeological, architectural, textual and iconographic evidence. The plates, four of which depict Roman ruins are quite crudely executed but are still delightful. Ultimately, nineteenth-century archaeologists located the actual site of the Gaulish settlement on nearby Mont Beuvray. This copy probably belonged to a contemporary local antiquary (perhaps the Claude Maillard who inscribed it) who added 8 manuscript pages containing a ‘Copie d’une lettre de Mr de la Monnoye à Mr. Baudot maître des comptes à Dijon’ and ‘Pour feu Mr. le Maître des Comptes Baudot ancien Maire de Dijon’. The former is an etymological study of the name of Bibracte, while the latter is a funeral elegy composed by Bernard de La Monnoye on Baudot’s death in 1711 (published, in print but perhaps not until a collected edition of de la Monnoyes’ works, 1743). The book passed at quite an early date to the Scottish antiquary Walter Bowman (1699-1782). Bowman was a tireless Grand Tourist and collector, who left a fine library at Logie, Fife (see William White in The Book Collector, 31, 1982). see full details...
![[BECCARIA,Cesare, marchese di.]](/photos/327/main/327.jpg "[BECCARIA,Cesare, marchese di.]")
