Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye () is a
commune in the north-central French
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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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
Mézilles () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, in the historical region of Puisaye.
See also
*Communes of the Yonne department
The following is a list of the 423 communes of the Yonne d ...
) 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.
Personalities
It is the birthplace of the writer
Colette. A museum dedicated to her life and work is housed in her childhood home.
See also
*
Communes of the Yonne department
References
Communes of Yonne
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