commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
region
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of
France
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.
Geography
An area of
forestry
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and
farming
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comprising the village and a couple of hamlets situated about south of Bourges, at the junction of the D34 with the D71 road.
Population
Sights
* The church of St. Saturnin, dating from the fifteenth century.
* The fourteenth-century chateau of Bois-Sir-Amé.
* A feudal
motte
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