• Source: Cessy-les-Bois

Cessy-les-Bois (French pronunciation: [sɛsi le bwa]) is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.




Demographics


On 1 January 2021, the estimated population was 114.




Hamlets


In addition to the village, Cessy-les-Bois includes several hamlets and isolated dwellings: Bondieuse, Chevenet, les Dubois, Montignon, Paray, la Redouterie.




Local culture and heritage






= Places and monuments

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Church of Saint-Christophe : built 1st half of the 16th century and 19th century; registered as historic monument on 29 March 1971. · .
Priory: the exact location of the old monastery of Cessy remains to be determined. Two theories are opposed: according to one, the priory, destroyed in 1569, was located on the site of the current town hall; according to Abbot Charrault (abbé Charrault), local historian, it was located in Montignon, on a hillside.




= Known people linked to the village

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Haimo of Auxerre, prior of Cessy from 865 to 875, theologian and exegete
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693), philosopher and letter writer, pamphleteer, satirist, libertine, member of the French Academy and lord of Cessy.
Poet and pamphleteer, Jacques Carpentier de Marigny (1615 / 1670), prior of Cessy-les-Bois, Coche, Saint-Malo-en-Donziois, Vielmanay.




See also


Communes of the Nièvre department




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Komune di departemen Nièvre
• Cessy
• Cruzilles-lès-Mépillat
• Saint-Étienne-du-Bois, Ain
• Saint-Bois
• Les Neyrolles
• Divonne-les-Bains
• Neuville-les-Dames
• Villars-les-Dombes
• Saint-Germain-les-Paroisses
• Cessy-les-Bois
• Sauvigny-les-Bois
• Cessy
• Nevers
• Montaron
• Challuy
• Pougues-les-Eaux
• Cizely
• Arbourse
• Johannine Comma