Yonne
Yonne () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the river Yonne, which flows through it, in the country's north-central part. One of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's eight constituent departments, it is l ...
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...
in north-central
France
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prince de Condé
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'' - uncle of the future
Henry IV of France
Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monar ...
. The town thus formed part of the extensive territories that were acquired by the Condé family over the years. Louis's son Henri de Bourbon, stayed at the Château there. The land would stay with the family until 1735 when Mademoiselle de Charolais - descendant of Louis - sold the land.
The town was the traditional burial place of the Princes of Condé and their descendants.
Those buried in the town include:
* Louis de Bourbon, prince de Condé;
* Henri de Bourbon, prince de Condé;
* Henri de Bourbon, prince de Condé;
* Éléonore de Bourbon, comtesse de La Marche;
* Louis de Bourbon, prince de Condé - ''le Grand Condé'';
* Henri Jule de Bourbon, prince de Condé;
*Henri de Bourbon, duc de Bourbon
* Louis de Bourbon, prince de Condé, ''Monsieur le Duc''
*Henri de Bourbon (1672–1675), comte de Clermont;
*Louis Henri de Bourbon, comte de La Marche;
*Mademoiselle de Clermont (1679–1680)
* Louis Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti
See also
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Communes of the Yonne department
The following is a list of the 423 communes of the Yonne department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Yonne
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