Bard-le-Régulier

Bard-le-Régulier is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France. It lies in the Morvan massif inside a natural regional park, at the foot of Mount Bard, about 60 km south-west of Dijon, 25 km north of Autun and 12 km west of Arnay-le-Duc. The D15 road runs through the heart of the commune and its village, and a railway line crosses the commune from north to south without a station there. The commune is quite heavily forested, with large areas of farmland, and the Trévoux rises from a small lake in the north and flows south through the village to join the Arroux north-west of Igornay. The place appears as Bard on the 1750 Cassini map and does not appear on the 1790 version. Its inhabitants are known in French as Barriens or Barriennes. The 11th century Church of Saint John the Evangelist, topped by an octagonal bell tower built between the 11th and 14th centuries, once depended on the priory of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine.