Villeneuve-sur-Yonne

Geography

History

Villeneuve-sur-Yonne was born from the will of the king Louis VII the Young person who wished, in 1163, to protect the limits from the kingdom of France vis-a-vis the Comté of Champagne. Located at the outlet of a ford of the Yonne, ordering the bridge which is built, the city is built with the Roman, on a rigorous squared level, inside protective ramparts, dominated by its majestic church. Villeneuve, fact part of the cities equipped with a royal keep (the Gross Tower), attribute of the power and glory of Philippe Auguste in the right turning thread of Louvre.
Philippe Auguste holds Parlement in to with it 1204 and Saint Louis will reside at it before leaving for the eighth Crusade during which he will die in Tunis.
the Wars of religion will see Villeneuve set fire to in 1594 because the city will have remained faithful to the Members of a league whereas Henri IV enters to Paris.
the Révolution will result in the change into 1792 of the qualification " le-Roi" in " on-Yonne". Protected by its representative with Paris, the disorders will be primarily symbolic systems, most outstanding being the imprisonment of its notable in the " House with the Hundred fenêtres" who will become in 1975 current Mairie.
the moralist Joubert, native, will often receive his friend Chateaubriand who liked to meditate on the Walks of the city.
the Guerre of 1870 will mark the spirits by the drama of the shot hostages whose stele carries the memory.
In the Inter-war period, Villeneuve will give itself for mayor the “good” Doctor Petiot who, if it makes evolve/move the city, will mark nevertheless the spirits by a certain number of embezzlements which will be worth its revocation and its departure for Paris to him towards a destiny that it will make tragic.
the Résistance will be important in Villeneuve because of its proximity with the maquis of the Forest of Othe and the Spanish resistant writer Jorge Semprun will have a false identity by which he will be declared native city.
Since the years 1960, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne shows a dynamism which transformed it into a new small town, accessible and opened.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Leon Feugère, professor and critical literary French

Marcel Little laddie, mayor of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne in the years 1930 but especially notorious assassin French

Culture

Museum of Beautiful arts (2bis rue Carnot): temporary exhibitions in summer, permanent collections (Emile Peynot, Théo Balké, artists local and regional, 200 years of departmental Gendarmerie)
Historical Museum (Door of Joigny): the city
Theater (25 rue Carnot): theater with Italian (1880), ceiling of Jean-Pierre Pincemin
Architecture : Notre Dame church of the Assumption, royal Keep, Carries Direction and Carries of Joigny, strengthened enclosure, houses of Masters, relay of station, houses with sides, laundrettes.
Living rooms : the book and the feather (May), festival of science (June), festival of early childhood (September), living room of the gastronomy and the Christmas present (December)
Festival Organ in festival, young talents . Organists resulting from the Higher National Academy of Music and Dance of Paris animate all the summer the Notre Dame church.
Photographs out of window : exposure of the photographs of the annual contest in the windows of the tradesmen all November

Twinnings

Demography

Others facts

Villeneuve-sur-Yonne by twice went sadly celebrates:

the city was managed before war by sadly celebrates doctor Marcel Petiot, guillotine in 1946 after being recognized guilty of 27 assassinations.
It is with Castle (commune of Villeneuve on yonne located at 2,5 km) that the residence of Jean-Pierre Treiber is, in the Jardin whose the bodies were extracted from two women within the framework of the investigation into disappearances of Geraldine Giraud and of Katia Lherbier.

See too

Common of Yonne

External bonds

site of the city
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne on the site of INSEE
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne on the site of Quid
Localization of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Villeneuve-sur-Yonne on Mapquest

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