Saône

Saône, a river of France, an affluent of the Rhone (q.v.), rises in the dept. of Vosges, in the Faucelles Mountains, flows south-west as far as Châlons, thence south to the Rhone at Lyons. It is joined by the Doubs from the left. Entire length, 282 miles, of which 170 are navigable. Area of basin, 11,418 sq. m. See Hamerton's The Saône: a Summer Voyage (1887), a description of the river with numerous illustrations.