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Tonnerre Tonnerre is a useful starting point for exploring the Paris-Sens-Dijon region. Its principal sight is the vast, well-conserved medieval hospital, the Hotel-Dieu, right on the main road in the middle of town. In the chapel is an expressive and realistic piece of Burgundian tableau statuary, an Entombment of Christ. The Hotel d'Uzs saw the birth of Tonnerre's quirkiest claim to fame, an eighteenth-century gentleman with the fittingly excessive moniker Charles-Genevive-Louis-Auguste-Andr-Timoth Don de Beaumont. He went about his important diplomatic missions for King Louis XV dressed in women's clothes. His act was so convincing that while he was in London bookmakers took bets on his real sex. See the house where he lived from 1779 to 1785 at 22 rue du Pont. |