Country France Time zone CET (UTC+1) Area 30.89 km² Local time Wednesday 2:41 AM | INSEE/Postal code 89368 /89520 Population 954 (2006) | |
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Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Canton Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye Weather 7°C, Wind SW at 5 km/h, 85% Humidity | ||
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.
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Map of 89520 Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France
In the early seventies Château de la Folie, north of the village - halfway Mezilles, 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. 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.