The department of Côte-d´Or was created on March 4, 1790 by the Constituent Assembly. It was part of the former province of Burgundy.
It is a legend created "from family memory", in 1896 which would have it that "the name of Côte-d'Or is due, to the poetic aspect and grandiose of the coast in autumn" or that André-Rémy Arnoult, constituent deputy of Dijon is the "creator" of this name. Like many other legends, this one is false.
The coast, as a mountain, has been depicted by geographers on maps since 1584. As for the name, it appears for the first time on the initiative of Guillaume Delisle, important geographer to the King and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, on a map of 1703, and even more clearly, on the map he drew up in 1709 by order of the Elected Generals of the Province of Burgundy. a line of coasts clearly appears according to a topography, in a way that is even more picturesque than geometric, but, above all, for the first time it is named "LA COSTE", between Nuits-Saint-Georges and Dijon.
As for the name of "CÔTE D´OR", it is an ex nihilo creation of the Division Committee of the Constituent Assembly.
After the victory of the Allies at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the department was occupied by Austrian troops from June 1815 to November 1818.
The Burgundy Canal is a 242km (150mi) long narrow gauge waterway (Freycinet), located in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France, which connects the Seine basin with the Rhône basin. The construction of the Burgundy Canal was planned from the reign of Henri IV around 1605. The first works started in 1777 on the section from Laroche to Tonnerre. The Pouilly-en-Auxois tunnel was built between 1826 and 1832.