Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye

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.

• Name — Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye • Commune Status — Commune • Image Coat Of Arms — Blason Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye 90.svg • Insee — 89368 • Postal Code — 89520 • Arrondissement — Auxerre • Canton — Vincelles • Mayor — Yohann Corde • Term — 2020–2026 • Elevation Min M — 212 • Elevation Max M — 311 • Area Km2 — 30.89 • Population — population_total • Population Date — population_as_of • Population Footnotes — population_footnotes Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (LL- (fra)-Benoît Prieur-Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye.wav) is a commune in the north-central French department of Yonne. It is located in an area historically known as Puisaye. 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.

It is the birthplace of the writer Colette. A museum dedicated to her life and work is housed in the château in the village centre.