Montbard

Montbard (population 7900 in 1991) is a town in eastern France, a sub-prefecture of the Côte d'Or département, in the Bourgogne région.

Montbard is a small industrial town on the river Brenne . The Chateau was the scene of the marriage of Anne de Bourgogne and John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford in 1423. It was acquired by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

Montbard was the birthplace of Buffon's collaborator Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, and where Géneral Jean-Andoche Junot, Duc d'Abrantès (1771-1813), committed suicide.