Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye

Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, in the historical region of Puisaye.

Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
Commune
The town hall in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
Coordinates: 47°37′09″N 3°11′52″E
CountryFrance
RegionBourgogne-Franche-Comté
DepartmentYonne
ArrondissementAuxerre
CantonVincelles
Area
1
30.89 km2 (11.93 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
885
 • Density29/km2 (74/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
89368 /89520
Elevation212–311 m (696–1,020 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

In the early 1970s the Château de la Folie, north of the village (halfway to Mézilles) was home to one of the "Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence" projects. Transcendental Meditation teachers and students from all over the world gathered here to renovate the buildings and make the château a meditation centre. There were plans to make a campus with meditation-units in the fields between the château and the Etang de la Folie, just beside the D7 road. The project was abandoned in the mid-seventies, for reasons unknown.

Personalities

It is the birthplace of the writer Colette. A museum dedicated to her life and work is housed in her childhood home.

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.


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