Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
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.
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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.
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Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye appears in the authority records of the Etalab API Découpage administratif and the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names as a place. The authority records of the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names record Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye as an inhabited place. Etalab API Découpage administratif records Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye as a commune. The authority records of the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names record Bourgogne-Franche-Comté as the administrative unit of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. Etalab API Découpage administratif records Yonne as the administrative unit of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. Etalab API Découpage administratif records Bourgogne-Franche-Comté as the administrative region of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. Etalab API Découpage administratif records France as the country of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. The area of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye is 3,071 hectares, according to the Etalab API Découpage administratif. The Etalab API Découpage administratif records the postal code 89520 for Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye.
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• Name — Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye • Commune Status — Commune • 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
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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.
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