Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye

Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
The town hall in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
The town hall in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
Coat of arms of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
Location of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
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Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye is located in France
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye is located in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
Coordinates: 47°37′09″N 3°11′52″E / 47.6192°N 3.1978°E / 47.6192; 3.1978
CountryFrance
RegionBourgogne-Franche-Comté
DepartmentYonne
ArrondissementAuxerre
CantonVincelles
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Yohann Corde[1]
Area
1
30.89 km2 (11.93 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
900
 • Density29/km2 (75/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.

Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ sovœʁ ɑ̃ pɥizɛ] ) 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.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.