Sancoins () is a commune in the

Cher Cher ( ; born Cheryl Sarkisian, May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress and television personality. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Goddess of Pop", she is known for her Androgyny, androgynous contralto voice, Music an ...

department in the

Centre-Val de Loire Centre-Val de Loire (; ,In isolation, ''Centre'' is pronounced . ) or Centre Region (, ), as it was known until 2015, is one of the eighteen Regions of France, administrative regions of France. It straddles the middle Loire Valley in the interior ...

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Geography

An area of

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and associated

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comprising a small town and several hamlets situated by the banks of both the river Aubois and the

canal de Berry The Canal de Berry () is a disused canal in France which links the Canal latéral à la Loire at Marseilles-lès-Aubigny with the Cher at Noyers rejoining the Loire near Tours. With a branch from Montluçon it provided of canal with locks w ...

, about southeast of

Bourges Bourges ( ; ; ''Borges'' in Berrichon) is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre (Cher), Yèvre. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Cher (department), Cher, and also was the capital city of the former provin ...

, at the junction of the D2076 with the D951 and D920 roads. The commune shares its southern border with that of the department of

Allier Allier ( , , ; ) is a Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region that borders Cher (department), Cher to the west, Nièvre to the north, Saône-et-Loire and Loire (department), Loire to the east, Pu ...

Population

Sights

* The church of St. Martin, rebuilt in the nineteenth century. * The fourteenth-century

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of Jouy, built by Pierre de Giac, chancellor of the Duke of Berry. * Several 15th and sixteenth-century buildings in the main town. * Javoulet lake. * The sixteenth-century ‘Joan of Arc’ tower.

Personalities

Oscar Méténier Oscar Méténier (17 January 1859 – 9 February 1913) was a French playwright and novelist. In 1897 he founded Grand Guignol, ''Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol'' in Paris, planning it as a space for Naturalism (art), naturalist performance. L ...

(1859–1913), writer, was born here. *

Marguerite Audoux Marguerite Audoux (; 7 July 1863 in Sancoins, Cher – 31 January 1937 in Saint-Raphaël, Var) was a French novelist. Biography Marguerite Donquichote, who took her mother's name, Audoux, in 1895, was orphaned by age three, following the de ...

(1863–1937), writer, was born here.

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