Moulins-sur-Yèvre (, literally ''Moulins on Yèvre'') is a
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of
France
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A
farming
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area comprising the village and several hamlets situated by the banks of the river Yèvre, some east of Bourges, at the junction of the D46 with the N151 and the D156 roads.
Population
Sights
* The church of St. Austrégésile, dating from the twelfth century.
* The chateau of Moulins.
* The fifteenth-century chateau of Maubranches.
* The chapel of Notre-Dame at Liesse, rebuilt in 1872.