Yonne

The Yonne is a river in France, a left-bank tributary of the Seine. It is long. The river gives its name to the Yonne département. It rises in the Nièvre département, in the Morvan hills near Château-Chinon. It flows into the river Seine at Montereau-Fault-Yonne. The Yonne flows through the following départements and towns: Nièvre: Château-Chinon, Clamecy Yonne: Auxerre, Migennes, Joigny, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, Sens Seine-et-Marne: Montereau-Fault-Yonne The main tributaries of the Yonne are the Vanne, the Armançon, the Serein and the Cure. History The river was historically used for flottage, or the floating of rafts of timber from the Morvan forest to serve the needs of the capital, Paris. It was bypassed as a rafting waterway by the Canal du Nivernais in 1841, from near its source at Corbigny down to Auxerre.