Besançon

American  

[buh-zahn-sawn] / bə zɑ̃ˈsɔ̃ /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Doubs, in E France: Roman ruins.

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Besançon British  

/ bəzɑ̃sɔ̃ /

noun

1. a city in E France, on the Doubs River: university (1422). Pop: 117 733 (1999)

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Example Sentences

Investigators then looked at other serious adverse events dating back to 2008, involving patients aged four to 89, at the two big healthcare centres he had worked at in Besançon - the Franche-Comté Polyclinic and the Saint-Vincent Clinic.

From BBC

For ethical reasons, there are no plans to display the piece, but a photo of the lamp on the commandant of Buchenwald's desk is on the Museum of Resistance and Deportation of Besancon's website.

From BBC

He won a competition for orchestral conductors in Besançon, France, that year, and was invited by one of the judges, Charles Munch, then the music director of the Boston Symphony, to study at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, the orchestra’s summer home in western Massachusetts.

From New York Times

BESANÇON, France — The statue of Victor Hugo has loomed outside the city hall of his birthplace, situated on the Esplanade for Human Rights, since 2003, his white beard knotty, his black suit rumpled, his face cast down at his pocket watch.

From New York Times

A reporter from the Besançon newspaper called Béatrice Soulé, Mr. Sow’s widowed partner in Dakar, Senegal’s capital.

From New York Times