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Villeneuve-sur-Yonne
Bourgogne-Franche-Comtévillage
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne
Total population
5,136
Demographic figures from INSEE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
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Overview
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.
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History
The city was founded in 1163 by Louis VII of France to protect the kingdom of France at the boundary of the Champagne. It was a villa longa, a town built around a single road; in this case, the old path between Sens to Joingy, to which were connected 8 roads. In 1204 King Philip II Augustus held parliament in the city, and Louis IX resided in the city before departing for the Eighth Crusade. In 1594 the city was burnt down. During the French Revolution the name was changed from le-Roi (the king) to sur-Yonne (on the Yonne). In 1870 a memorial for the dead was designed by the sculptor Émile Peynot. The city was governed from 1927 till 1931 by the infamous mayor Marcel Pétiot, who was guillotined in 1946, convicted of 26 killings.
Geography
The city lies on the bank of the river Yonne, between the cities of Sens and Joigny.
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Official Identifiers
INSEE — French National Institute of Statistics
- INSEE code
- 89464
- Department
- 89
- Region
- 27
- Population (Wikidata)
- 5,135
geo.api.gouv.fr
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • INSEE — French national statistics, via geo.api.gouv.fr (official commune code, population, surface, department, region)
- • INSEE — French National Institute of Statistics — geo.api.gouv.fr