Jeton - États de Bourgogne - Maire de Dijon - Benoît-Palamèdes Baudinot 2e type

Reverse

Arms of Benoît-Palamèdes Baudinot (Gules, three fesses Or, between three crescents Argent in chief), mantled and supported by two greyhounds.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
B • P • BAVDINOT • Sgr DE • SELORRE • Cr AV • PARL •
• 1680 •

Unabridged legend: Benoît-Palamèdes Baudinot, seigneur de Selorre, conseiller au parlement.

Comment

Benoît-Palamèdes Baudinot (also known as Benoît-Paldamès Boudinot de Sèlvres), a member of the French Parliament and Seigneur de Selorre, was elected Viscount-Mayor of Dijon on June 20, 1674, and remained in office until June 20, 1677; he was re-elected (after Pierre Monin's term of office) on June 20, 1679, and remained in office until June 1681. Benoît-Palamèdes Baudinot bore "de gueules, à trois fasces d'or, accompagnées de trois croissants d'argent rangés en chef" (blazon registered in 1698 in Dijon, n° 57, 135, 208).