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Besançon
[buh-zah
noun
a city in and the capital of Doubs, in E France: Roman ruins.
Besançon
/ bəzɑ̃sɔ̃ /
noun
a city in E France, on the Doubs River: university (1422). Pop: 117 733 (1999)
Example Sentences
A former anaesthetist has gone on trial in the city of Besançon, in eastern France, accused of intentionally poisoning 30 people, including 12 patients who died.
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.
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.
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.
Last year, a court found Nicolas Zepeda guilty of murdering 21-year-old Narumi Kurosaki in Besançon, in eastern France in a trial that made national headlines in France, Chile and Japan.
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