What is Chalon-sur-Saône?
{{Infobox French commune |name = Chalon-sur-Saône |commune status = [[Subprefectures in France|Subprefecture]] and [[Communes of France|commune]] |image coat of arms = Blason Chalon Ville.svg |image = Chalon-sur-Saône.jpg |arrondissement = Chalon-sur-Saône |canton = [[Canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-1|Chalon-sur-Saône-1]], [[Canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-2|2]] and [[Canton of Chalon-sur-Saône-3|3]] |INSEE = 71076 |postal code = 71100 |mayor = Gilles Platret<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chalon.fr/fr/vie-municipale/les-elus.html |title=Les élus |publisher=Ville de Chalon-sur-Saône |language=fr |access-date=23 June 2017 |archive-date=7 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607171040/http://www.chalon.fr/fr/vie-municipale/les-elus.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |term = 2014&ndash;2020 |intercommunality = Le Grand Chalon |coordinates = {{coord|46.7806|4.8528|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation m = 185 |elevation min m = 172 |elevation max m = 190 |area km2 = 15.22 |population = 44985 |population date = 2014 |population demonym = Chalonnais |website = [http://www.chalon.fr/ www.chalon.fr] }} '''Chalon-sur-Saône''' is a city and a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Saône-et-Loire]] [[Departments of France|department]] in the [[Bourgogne-Franche-Comté]] [[Regions of France|region]] of [[France]]. It is the largest city of the department; however, the department capital is the smaller city of [[Mâcon]]. ==History== Though the place where is Chalon-sur-Saône now was an important town of the [[Aedui]] ([[Celts|Celtic]] people that lived between the [[Saône]] and [[Loire River|Loire]] rivers) and objects of [[La Tène culture]] have been found here, the first mention of the town, as '''''Cavillonum''''' or '''''Cabillonum''''', is found in [[Julius Caesar]]'s ''Gallic Wars'' (VII, chs. 42 and 90).<ref>Julius Caesar, ''Commentarii de