Courson-the-Careers

Courson-the-Careers is a common French, located in the department of the Yonne and the area Burgundy. Its inhabitants is called Coursonnais.

Geography

History

1.470 of wood, 23 km in the south of the prefecture; public college, remainders of a feudal castle, pit. It is the seat of the Community of communes of Forterre.

The canton, hardly separated from the department of the Nievre by that of Coulanges-on-Yonne, has 2.900 hab., 11 communes, 20.364 ha including 4.937 of wood. It extends to the west on the plate from limestones portlandiens, whose stone was very exploited; one visits there with Aubigny, in the commune of Taingy, the underground careers which were used with many monuments as Paris, of which the town hall; a workshop of size and initiation to the size is maintained there. Taingy had more than 1.000 hab. at the 19th century, 520 in 1950. The sources of Ouanne are a little with of Taingy, with Ouanne precisely, 12 km NO of Courson.

To the east and the south, the canton extends on the plate from the lower step, of rather confused relief, where the forest of Frétoy is spread out. It pushes in addition to-forest a point towards the south, where the village of Druyes-the-Beautiful-Fountains, classified as “village of character”, is known for the ruins of its powerful castle of the 12th century and 14th century, a door of the old enclosure and its Romance church. Courson (which are not “the Careers” since 1878) and Druyes (which is not “the Beautiful-Fountains” since 1925) respectively had 1.400 hab. and 1.100 about 1880 and were depopulated since, even if the movement seems braked in Courson. Ouanne had absorbed into 1972 the communes of Chastenay in the west and Merry-Dryness in the east, but Merry-Dryness, 5 km in the north of Courson, took again its independence since 1979. After a long depopulation, Ouanne as Merry-Dryness regained some inhabitants since 1982.

Administration

Demography

Courson is a village under development full. The number of inhabitants increases each year by his number of new arrivals but also by its great number of birth these last years. The number of new inhabitants increases thanks to a geographical position very favorable to village (20 km of Auxerre and Clamecy).

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Culture

Courson-the-careers holds its name of the duke of Courson and his speciality the stone size. the stone masons of Courson made the reputation of this small village of Yonne. The stones of Courson have was useful has to build large buildings and works of art. Many painters like Spanish Miguel Garcia Vivancos are served as the Coursonnais framework to paint their fabrics.

Twinnings

the village of Courson the careers is twinned with no city or village.

See too

Common of Yonne

External bonds

Courson-the-Careers on the site of the national geographical Institute
Courson-the-Careers on the site of INSEE
Courson-the-Careers on the site of Quid
Localization of Courson-the-Careers on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Courson-the-Careers on Mapquest

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