Auxerre
Proper noun
Meaning
Auxerre
A commune, the capital of the Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
Examples
Chaillan, p. 9. He was appointed Prior of Nôtre-Dame du Pré (de Priorato) in the diocese of Auxerre by Pope Clement VI, which he held until his promotion to Saint-Germain en Auxerre in 1352.
The French army left Gien on 29 June on the march toward Reims and accepted the conditional surrender of the Burgundian-held city of Auxerre on 3 July.
Vortigern had meanwhile incurred the wrath of Germanus of Auxerre and gone into hiding at the advice of his counsel.