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Côte-d'Or
—  Department  —
Coat of arms
Location of Côte-d'Or in France
Coordinates: 47°25′N 04°50′E / 47.417°N 4.833°E / 47.417; 4.833Coordinates: 47°25′N 04°50′E / 47.417°N 4.833°E / 47.417; 4.833
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne
Prefecture	Dijon
Subprefectures	Beaune Montbard
Government
• President of the General Council	François Sauvadet (NC)
Area1
• Total	8,763 km2 (3,383 sq mi)
Highest elevation	723 m (2,372 ft)
Population (2006)
• Total	532,948
• Rank	49th
• Density	61/km2 (160/sq mi)
Demonym	côte-d'oriens, costaloriens
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Department number	21
Arrondissements	3
Cantons	43
Communes	707
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Côte-d'Or (IPA: [kot dɔːʁ]; English: Golden Hillside) is a department in the eastern part of France.

History[link]

Côte-d'Or is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was formed from part of the former province of Burgundy.

Geography[link]

The department is part of the current region of Bourgogne. It is surrounded by the departments of Yonne, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, Jura, Aube, and Haute-Marne.

A chain of hills called the Plateau de Langres runs from north-east to south-west through the department to the north of Dijon and continues south-westwards as the Côte d'Or escarpment, which is named from the department's name. It is the south-east facing slope of the escarpment which is the site of the celebrated Burgundy vineyards. To the west of the Plateau de Langres, towards Champagne, lies the densely wooded district of Châtillonais. To the south-east of the plateau and escarpment, the department lies in the broad, flat-bottomed valley of the middle course of the Saône.

Rivers include:

• The Saône
• The Seine rises in the southern end of the Plateau de Langres.
• The Ouche rises on the dip slope of the escarpment and flows to the Saône via Dijon.
• The Armançon rises on the dip slope of the escarpment and flows north-westward.
• The Arroux rises on the dip slope of the escarpment at the southern end of the department.

Climate[link]

The climate of the department is temperate, with abundant rain on the west side of the central range.

Politics[link]

The President of the General Council is François Sauvadet of the New Centre.

Economy[link]

This is a premier wine-growing region of France. It produces what are arguably the world's finest, and definitely most expensive Pinot noir and Chardonnay wines from some of the most rigorously and painstakingly (thanks to the region's many monasteries) classified vineyards in the world. Wine from the Côte-d'Or was a favorite of the emperor Charlemagne. Other crops include cereal grains and potatoes. Sheep and cattle are also raised in the department. The region is famous for its Dijon mustard.

There are coal mines and heavy industry, including steel, machinery, and earthenware. The industries most developed in Côte-d'Or are

• agriculture and food (14% of employees)
• metallurgy and metal manufacture (12% of employees)
• chemicals, rubber and plastics (12% of employees)
• pharmacy
• electrical and electronic components and equipment
• wood and paper industries.

The big works are generally in the conurbation of Dijon although biggest (CEA Valduc) is at Salives in the Plateau de Langres. There is also the SEB metal works at Selongey below the plateau on the margin of the Saône plain and the Valourec metalworking group at Montbard in the west of the department on the River Brenne near its confluence with the Armançon. The Pharmaceutical industry has shown the greatest growth in recent years. However, since the Dijon employment statistics zone includes the urban and administrative centre of the Burgundy region, the service sector is proportionately bigger there in relation to the industrial, than in the other three zones of Côte-d'Or.

• Reference Industry in Bourgogne website

Demographics[link]

The inhabitants of the department are called Costaloriens.

Tourism[link]

Some of the major tourist attractions are the Gothic abbey church of Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye and the Romanesque abbey church at Saulieu, as well the Château de Bussy Rabutin at Bussy-le-Grand. The Abbey of Cîteaux, headquarters of the Cistercian Order, lies to the east of Nuits-Saint-Georges in the south of the department.

See also[link]

• (English) Côte-d'Or Tourism Guide
• French wine
• Cantons of the Côte-d'Or department
• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department
• Arrondissements of the Côte-d'Or department

External links[link]

• (French) Prefecture website
• (French) Council website
• (English) Cote-d'Or at the Open Directory Project
• (French) Photos Gallery of Dijon and the Côte D'or

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Bernard Daniel Jacques Loiseau

Bernard and Dominique Loiseau
Born	(1951-01-13)January 13, 1951 Chamalières, France
Died	February 24, 2003(2003-02-24) (aged 52) Saulieu, France
Education	La Maison Troisgros
Rating(s) Michelin stars 3 ! AAA Motor Club Mobil Good Food Guide
Current restaurant(s) La Cote d'Or

Bernard Loiseau (January 13, 1951 – February 24, 2003) was a French chef. He committed suicide by firearm in 2003 when newspaper reports hinted that his restaurant might lose its 3-star status.^[1]

Early life[link]

Loiseau was born in Chamalières, in the Auvergne region of central France. He decided to become a chef as a teenager, apprenticing at the famous La Maison Troisgros run by the brothers Jean and Pierre Troisgros in Roanne between 1968 and 1971.

Career[link]

In 1972, Loiseau began working for restaurateur Claude Verger at La Barrière de Clichy, and was soon hailed as a prodigy by the Gault Millau guide, a proponent of the nouvelle cuisine style that emphasized lightness and freshness in contrast to the cuisine classique of traditional French gastronomy. When Verger bought the formerly prestigious La Côte d'Or of Saulieu in 1975, he installed Loiseau as chef and soon stood aside to allow him to develop a highly personal style of cuisine. Loiseau bought La Côte d'Or from Verger in 1982, and the well known Michelin Guide bestowed the coveted 3-star rating on his establishment in 1991. His fanatic attention to detail, frenetic work ethic and discerning palate propelled him to the top of his profession and earned him a knowledgeable and loyal but unforgiving and demanding clientele.

Bernard Loiseau established Bernard Loiseau SA in 1998, and was the first star restaurateur to establish the concept of having one's restaurant incorporated and traded. At the time of his death, he was the only French chef traded on the stock exchange.^[2] Under Bernard Loiseau SA, Loiseau published numerous books, established a line of frozen foods, and opened three eateries in Paris, in addition to running La Côte d'Or and its adjoining boutique shop.

The French government awarded him its highest honour, the decorations of Chevalier (Knight) de la Légion d'honneur in 1994,^[3] Chevalier (Knight) de l'Ordre national du Mérite in 1986,^[4] Officier (Officer) de l'Ordre national du Mérite in 2002^[4] and Chevalier du Mérite agricole.

Death[link]

In the late 1990s, a new form of Asian-inspired "fusion cuisine" swept France, catering to an international corporate class and pleasing trend-driven "foodies" (a neologism of the movement), which Loiseau resisted. The prevailing notion, however, was that the pre-eminent Loiseau's grip was slipping — that his cuisine and philosophy were being superseded by newer trends. He was by this time deeply in debt, and suffered from bouts of increasingly severe clinical depression.

Loiseau committed suicide on February 24, 2003, shooting himself in the mouth with his shotgun after a full day of work in his kitchen.^[5] The Gault Millau guide had recently downgraded his restaurant from 19/20 to 17/20, and there were also rumors in Le Figaro^[6] that the Michelin Guide was planning to remove one of La Côte d'Or's three stars.

Loiseau had made a life's ambition of becoming a 3-star chef, a goal which had required 17 years of hard work at La Côte d'Or to achieve. After his death, three-star chef Jacques Lameloise said Loiseau had once confided, "If I lose a star, I'll kill myself".^[2] While it was later reported that Loiseau was despondent over his debt issues and decreasing patronage at his restaurant, Michelin still received blame in some accounts.^[7]

As of 2007 La Côte d'Or remained a three-star establishment in the hands of executive chef Patrick Bertron.

In media[link]

The plot of the Pixar film Ratatouille has its roots in Loiseau's life story.^[8] La Côte d'Or was one of the restaurants visited by Brad Bird and others in France.^[9]

Further reading[link]

• Rudolph Chelminski, 2005. The Perfectionist : Life and Death in Haute Cuisine (Gotham/Penguin). Biography
• William Echikson, 1995. "Burgundy Stars: A Year in the Life of a Great French Restaurant" (Little, Brown).

References[link]

1. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_10_37/ai_98998648/

External links[link]

Gourmandia Profile