Toucy
Encyclopedia
Toucy is a commune
in the Yonne
department in Burgundy in north-central France
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, creator of one of the most highly regarded French
dictionaries, Le Petit Larousse.
, which flows northwest through the commune.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Yonne
Yonne
Yonne is a French department named after the Yonne River. It is one of the four constituent departments of Burgundy in eastern France and its prefecture is Auxerre. Its official number is 89....
department in Burgundy in north-central France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
Personalities
It was the hometown of Pierre LaroussePierre Larousse
Pierre Athanase Larousse was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15 volume Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle.-Early life:Pierre Larousse was born in Toucy, where...
, creator of one of the most highly regarded French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
dictionaries, Le Petit Larousse.
Geography
The village lies in the middle of the commune, on the right bank of the Ouanne RiverOuanne River
The Ouanne is an long river in central France, a right tributary of the Loing. Its source is near the small town Ouanne, about southwest of Auxerre...
, which flows northwest through the commune.