Dijon: The Four Grand Dukes of Burgundy

For nearly one hundred years the house of Burgundy was one of the most powerful in all western Europe. Its dominion stretched from the North Sea to the Loire and from the Loire to the Rhine, while Dijon, the duchy's capital, became an important center of both the religious and secular arts, and the scene of glittering festivities. Four dukes ruled at the height of the family's prosperity: Philip the Rash, who founded its fortunes; John the Fearless, who engaged in feuds that almost destroyed it; Philip the Good, who sold Joan of Arc to the English; and Charles the Bold, perhaps the richest of them all. The film is an historic journey: it shows many of the fine paintings, sculptures, and other objets d'art in the Musée des Beaux Arts at Dijon and the Carthusian monastery at Champmol.

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