Bonny-sur-Loire (, literally ''Bonny on

Loire The Loire (, also ; ; oc, Léger, ; la, Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône ...

'') is a

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in the

Loiret Loiret (; ) is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of north-central France. It takes its name from the river Loiret, which is contained wholly within the department. In 2019, Loiret had a population of 680,434.

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of the

Centre-Val de Loire Centre-Val de Loire (, , ,In isolation, ''Centre'' is pronounced . ) or Centre Region (french: région Centre, link=no, ), as it was known until 2015, is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France. It straddles the middle Loire Valley ...

region of north-central France.

Place name

The name is evidenced historically at least since the beginning of the seventeenth century.

Geography

The commune of Bonny stands beside the river

, at the border of the

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...

region and separated from the

Nièvre Nièvre () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central-east France. Named after the river Nièvre, it had a population of 204,452 in 2019.Nevers Nevers ( , ; la, Noviodunum, later ''Nevirnum'' and ''Nebirnum'') is the prefecture of the Nièvre Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in central France. It was the principal city of the ...

, the A77 and RN7.

Population

The inhabitants are known as ''Bonnychons''.

Administration

The mayor since March 2001 has been Michel Lechauve.

Sights

Suspension bridge between Bonny-sur-Loire et

Beaulieu-sur-Loire Beaulieu-sur-Loire (, literally ''Beaulieu on Loire'') is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. It is the place of death of Jacques MacDonald, a French general who served in the Napoleonic Wars. Population See also *Commu ...

(carrying the road D926)

Quality of life

Bonny-sur-Loire is a '' ville fleurie'', graded at the level of three flowers by the National Council for the ''Villes et Villages Fleuris de France''.

Celebrations

* Val de Jazz : in July * Wine festival and Second-Hand Market : the last Sunday in July * Salon of autumnal art: the week of 1 November * Saint-Aignan : each year, in November

Personalities

* Nicolas Habicot (1550–1624), surgeon of the Duke of Nemours and anatomist, was born at Bonny * François Jean-Baptiste d'Alphonse (1756–1821) born at Bonny, was a politician of the 18th-19th centuries * Désiré Lubin (1854–1929), painter, born at Bonny.