Nolay () is a commune in the

Côte-d'Or Côte-d'Or (; literally, "Golden Slope") is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of Northeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 534,124.department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

in eastern France. The 18th-century French physician and encyclopédiste

Louis-Anne La Virotte Louis-Anne La Virotte (15 July 1725, in Nolay, Côte-d'Or, Nolay (Côte-d’Or) – 3 March 1759, in Paris) was an 18th-century French physician and Encyclopédistes, encyclopédiste. Biography He first studied medicine at the Université de Mo ...

(1725–1759) was born in Nolay, as was mathematician, physicist and politician

Lazare Carnot Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Count Carnot (; 13 May 1753 – 2 August 1823) was a French mathematician, physicist and politician. He was known as the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Education and early ...

(1753–1823).

Geography

Nolay is located in the heart of the Cozanne Valley. The town marks the transition between the forests and plains to the north and west and the hillside vineyards of the wealthy Burgundian wine regions surrounding Beaune and the Chalonnaise hills to the south.

Population

Sights

Nolay is a small medieval market town, widely regarded as one of the most beautiful towns on the southern edge of the Côte-d'Or with its 14th century Central Market and wooden framed houses.

's birth house is a local attraction.

Transportation

The D973 runs through the town from

La Rochepot La Rochepot () is a commune in France in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Côte-d'Or department. It is a part of the canton of Arnay-le-Duc and of the arrondissement of Beaune. It has a hillside castle, converted to a château, on the D973 road betw ...

and Beaune to the east and Saisy and Autun to the west.

Notable people of Nolay

, born in 1725 in Nolay and died on March 3, 1759, in Paris, doctor. *

(1753-1823), mathematician, physicist, general of the armies of the Republic; fierce opponent of the creation of the Empire (name engraved under the Arc de Triomphe). * Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837-1894), President of the Republic. * Claude Marie Carnot de Feulins (1755-1836), general of the armies of the Republic and the Empire. * Vivant Beaucé (1818-1876), painter and designer. * Jean Garchery (1872-1957), politician. *

Alice Poulleau Alice Marguerite Marie Poulleau (1885–1960) (also published as Alice Guibon) was a French geographer, historian and poet who wrote extensively about the Middle East and other travels. Biography Poulleau was born 22 December 1885 in Nolay in ...

(1885-1960), writer, geographer.

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