How to use Yonne in a sentence
Noyers and Tanlay are ten or twelve miles from each other, in the modern department of the Yonne.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots | Henry BairdAnd I myself owe a debt of gratitude to the department of the Yonne as being one of the first to declare for me in 1848.
The Prussian Terror | Alexandre DumasThose of the Yonne are larger but of a character far less wild.
At Villeneuve-sur-Yonne one takes a gigantic step backward into the shadowy past.
Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy | Francis MiltounFollowing the Yonne still upwards towards its source one comes ultimately to Clamecy.
Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy | Francis Miltoun
British Dictionary definitions for Yonne
/ (French jɔn) /
a department of N central France, in Burgundy region. Capital: Auxerre. Pop: 335 917 (2003 est). Area: 7461 sq km (2910 sq miles)
a river in N France, flowing generally northwest to the Seine at Montereau. Length: 290 km (180 miles)
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