Puisaye (Burgundy)

The Puisaye (also called Poyaude ) is a landscape in Burgundy .

geography

The traditional image of the Puisaye is that of a green landscape with forests and large ponds. In fact, the Puisaye is divided into two parts: the middle and the north with their chalk subsoil are used for agriculture, the south-east and the east with their sandy and clay soils show a kinked landscape . In addition, there is iron-containing sandstone , which is used to build houses. The Puisaye is crossed by the Loing , Branlin and Ouanne rivers , the largest body of water is the Lac du Bourdon with a capacity of 9.3 million m³. Larger forests can be found in Merry, Vaux and Saint-Fargeau . Agricultural use is concentrated (with widespread settlement) on grazing and livestock farming.

The Puisaye extends over

• 5 cantons of the Yonne department ( canton Bléneau , canton Charny , canton Saint-Fargeau , canton Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye and canton Toucy );
• 1 canton of the Nièvre department (former canton of Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye ).
• 2 cantons of the Loiret department ( canton Briare and the northeast of canton Gien ).

history

The name "Puisaye" is of Celtic origin ( Poy for wet land and saga for forest), and developed from Poiseia or Puseio in the 12th century to Puisoye and finally Puisaye . Today the Puisaye and the Forterre together form the Pays de Puisaye-Forterre .

literature

• Alain Bataille, Pascal Dibié, Jean-Pierre Fontaine, Jean-Charles Guillaume, Jean-Paul Moreau, Ferdinand Pavy, Line Storka, Gérard Taverdet: Yonne , coll.Encyclopédies régionales, Paris, Éditions Bonneton, 1992, ISBN 2-86253-124 -3 .