Cussy-en-Morvan

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Cussy-en-Morvan (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Literal translation "Cussy-in-Morvan"), commonly referred to simply as Cussy, is a rural commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central-east France.

It is located some Template:Cvt northwest of Autun, in the heart of Morvan Regional Natural Park. As of 2019, Cussy-en-Morvan had a population of 378. It covers an area of Template:Cvt.

It is situated on the departmental border with both Nièvre and Côte-d'Or at Gien-sur-Cure and the Ménessaire exclave, respectively.

History

Georges Leyton (code name Socrate), "one of the most popular leaders of the Resistance of the Morvan" in World War II, was buried in the local cemetery in Cussy-en-Morvan on 12 August 1944, after being shot by German occupying forces near the nearby village of La Celle-en-Morvan.[2][3]

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