FLAVIGNY, a town of eastern France, in the department of Cote-d Or, stands on a hill above the river Ozerain, 33 m. W.N.W. of Dijon by road. Pop. (1931) 511. The 8th century abbey has been rebuilt as a factory for the manufacture of anise, an indus try connected with the town as early as the 17th century. There are also a church of the 13th and 1 nth centuries, and ancient gate ways. About 3 m. N.W. of Flavigny rises Mont Auxois, the site of the ancient Alesia, where Caesar in A.D. 52 defeated the Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix, to whom a statue has been erected on the top of the hill. Many finds of the Gallo-Roman period have been made on the hill.