Monday, February 27, as part of the Salon de l’Agriculture, the Department of Côte-d’Or is organizing a gourmet road trip to Paris. On board the Bustronome, journalists and personalities (re)discover places in the capital revealing links, sometimes unsuspected, with the Côte-d’Or.
As every year, the Côte-d’Or arrives in large numbers at the Salon de l’Agriculture. The 100% Côte-d’Or day will take place on Tuesday 28 February (see program here). Before that, the Department is offering a wine tourism appetizer this Monday. On board the Bustronome, a restaurant bus flocked especially for the occasion, journalists and personalities from the Côte-d’Or and Paris will meander through the capital, departing from Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, with stops in places more or less linked to the Côte-d ‘Gold. Here is a selection:
🔵 Les Invalides and Napoleon’s tomb
Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte was a great lover of Gevrey-Chambertin. The Emperor’s favorite wine, Gevrey was always served at dinners at the Tuileries or Saint-Cloud. It is even said that Napoleon drank it every day, even on the battlefield!
🔵 Palais Garnier
The Opéra Garnier (or Palais Garnier) is a major monument in the capital. Built in the 19the century by the architect Charles Garnier, it hosts lyrical and choreographic works. In particular, you can admire the operas and ballets of the Dijon composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), a figure of Baroque music and French classical opera.
🔵 The Samaritan
La Samaritaine is one of the largest department stores in Paris. This mythical place of fashion and the French art of living was partly designed by Gustave Eiffel. Under the guidance of architect Franz Jourdain, the industrial engineer from Dijon produced the metal structure and the wrought iron stairs. Very evocative elements of the Eiffel style, although in total rupture with the codes of the time.
🔵 Musée d’Orsay
The Musée d’Orsay houses masterpieces of all kinds: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic arts, photography… Nearly 4 million annual visitors admire The White Bear by Francois Pompon. The sculptor from Saulieu worked alongside Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel before founding his own studio. “L’Ours Pompon”, so popular with Côte-d’Oriens, can also be seen in Darcy square in Dijon. The Museum of Fine Arts of the city of the Dukes offers a gallery tribute to his work.
🔵 National Assembly
Canon Kir did not simply give his name to the aperitif drink made from aligoté and crème de cassis. Mayor of Dijon from 1945 to 1968, Félix Kir was also a deputy for Côte-d’Or. A colorful character, he sat in a cassock in the National Assembly from 1945 to 1967.
🔵 Tour Eiffel
The Eiffel Tower is an essential stopping point of the Bustronome 100% Côte-d’Or. We no longer present its builder Gustave Eiffel. In 2023, we celebrate the centenary of his death. An exhibition is currently devoted to him at the Château du Clos de Vougeot.
🔵 Galliera Palace
The Palais Galliera houses the fashion and city museum of Paris. We (still) owe Gustave Eiffel technical innovations and a metallic architecture hidden under the stones. As well as stair railings, bay windows and the gates of the square.
🔵 Arch of Triumph
The Arc de Triomphe is embellished with many sculptures recounting the battles of Napoleon. Among them, The departure of the volunteers et The Marseillaise are signed François Rude. This 18th century sculptor from Dijone century is at the origin of other Parisian works: The statue of Marshal Neyin the sixth arrondissement, and The recumbent figure of Godefroy Cavaignac, in the cemetery of Montmartre. To find out more about the artist, go to the Rude museum in Dijon.
