Saint-Fargeau

Administration
Commune of Saint-Fargeau
Location

Country	France
Region	Bourgogne
Department	Yonne
Arrondissement	Auxerre
Canton	Saint-Fargeau (chief town)
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de la Puisaye Fargeaulaise
Mayor	Pierre Bordier (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	182 m–280 m (avg. 215 m)
Land area^¹	67.20 km²
Population^² (1999)	1,814
- Density	27/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	89170/ 89344
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Saint-Fargeau is a commune of the Yonne département in France.

[edit] Demographics

As of the census of 1999, the population was 1,814.
On 1 January 2004, the estimate was 1,693.

In the early years of the reign of Louis XV, the town was the home too his exiled cousin, the hugely wealthy Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans. She lived in the château of the town, giving the building its present apperance. The building also has her monogram over its main entrance. She held the title of duchesse de Saint-Fargeau in her own right.
Jean d'Ormesson - a French novelist, mostly writing partially or totally autobiographic novels. He was brought up at the château and was born in 1925.
Robert Gall 1918 - 1990 - was a French lyricist.