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Dracy , also locally named Dracy-sur-Ouanne , is a French commune located in the department of Yonne in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

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Ouanne enters the town by the Southeast to the new forge mill , sprinkles Dracy, and passes over Villiers-Saint-Benoît at the height of the Château de Bréau (the largest piece of water in the castle is on Dracy, but the castle itself is on Villiers).

Its tributary the Ru of Maurepas, which is source in the east of Toucy, enters the town at 300 m in the north of Champroux And confused with Ouanne sur Dracy, on the edge of municipalities with Villiers-Saint-Benoît.

The Ru de l’Orsière , which takes source in the town of Fontaines, enters Dracy by the Bois de l’Etang south of the town. It serves as a limit of municipalities with Mézilles for 1.8 km Until the pond of Prefier ( 7 ha , shared in its length between the two municipalities), then passes over Mézilles when it left the pond.

The ru riot Source in the town within 1 km east of the pond of Prefier . He too heads north, finding the course Fountain of the exhaust , the pond near The brickyard ( 1.6 ha ), and the pond of riot ( first ha ). He leaves the town by his valley west of Offend .

Finally, a pond of 1.8 ha is between the pond of Prefier and the source of ru riot .

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The localities followed by an asterisk are located away from the indicated road.

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Typology [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Dracy is a rural commune, because it is one of the municipalities that are not very little dense, in the sense of the municipal gate of density of INSEE ^{[ Note 1 ] , [ first ] , [ 2 ] , [ 3 ]} .
The municipality is also outside the attraction of cities ^{[ 4 ] , [ 5 ]} .

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Map of infrastructure and land use of the municipality in 2018 (CLC).

The occupation of the soils of the municipality, as it emerges from the European Database for Biophysics of Corine Land Cover (CLC), is marked by the importance of agricultural territories (51.1% in 2018) , a proportion identical to that of 1990 (50.9%). The detailed distribution in 2018 is as follows:
Forests (48.9%), arable land (33.1%), meadows (11.7%), heterogeneous agricultural areas (6.3%) ^{[ 6 ]} .

The IGN also provides an online tool to compare the evolution over time of the soil occupation of the municipality (or territories to different scales). Several eras are accessible in the form of aerial cards or photos: the Cassini card ( XVIII ^{It is} century), the staff map (1820-1866) and the current period (1950 to today) ^{[ 7 ]} .

Known from Antiquity for its very important metallurgical activity. The names of the localities attest to this, especially in the Dracy wood south of the town with The big hole (which is what he says is, the big hole of a very old mine), The Ferrier Guillou , Argenton , and further north The stoves . This activity has left traces in the landscape. The Ferriers of Dracy, with those of Toucy, Tannerre and Villiers-Saint-Benoît, are the largest in the Puisaye ^{[ 8 ] , [ 9 ] , [ ten ]} .

A fairly large Gallo-Roman habitat was recognized at the site of the current castle, to the church and beyond to the railway line and the current cemetery. No excavation or study was carried out there.

A secondary ancient route runs along the river on its right bank, from Ouanne ( Odouna ) towards Sens ( Agedincum ), another secondary road from mezilles and fountains connects to it.

Named Track in a manuscript of IX ^{It is} century entitled free sacraments , in a list of parishes of the diocese of meaning.

The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses made in the municipality since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the municipalities are published annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual information collection, successively concerning all the municipal territories during a period of five years. For municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey relating to the entire population is carried out every five years, the legal populations of the intermediate years being estimated by interpolation or extrapolation ^{[ twelfth ]} . For the municipality, the first exhaustive census falling within the framework of the new system was carried out in 2005 ^{[ 13 ]} .

In 2020, the town had 242 inhabitants ^{[ Note 2 ]} , increased by 8.52%compared to 2014 (Yonne: −2.24%, France excluding Mayotte: +1.9%).

Histogram of demographic evolution

Tourism [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The tourist train of Puisaye-Forterre goes to the town.

The GRP Tour de Puisye enters the town in the southwest, bypasses the Dracy wood From the west, goes back to Dracy, and follows the entire Ouanne valley.

The private garden of Masbrouck, at the hamlet of Offend : first ha of meadow transformed over the years into a superb garden. He was selected in the works: 400 charming gardens , Burgundy through the door of the gardens , The France of Gardens and the Garden Guide in France ), and awarded twice by the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (Regional Heritage Prize, Category Parks and Gardens) ^{[ 16 ]} .

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There are several monuments to discover in Dracy:

• Dracy town hall
• The Saint-Etienne church in Dracy
• The multipurpose room
• The Pigeonnier
• The old station and its level passage
• Dracy castle – rebuilt in 1735 – private

Personalities linked to the municipality [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Landry de Dracy. His mentions began between 1146 and 1151 to continue in 1155 and 1167. Canon of Auxerre. His nephews are playing in Sommecaise. The lineage of Dracy (a knight in 1168-1175) tries to exist between the two powerful lordships of Courtenay and Toucy who compete for the control of the Ouanne valley ^{[ 17 ]} .

Natural heritage [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The town includes two Znieff:

• the Znieff of ponds, meadows and forests of the South Eastern Gâtinais , which totals 15,600 ha divided into many sites in 27 municipalities ^{[ 18 ]} , particularly targets stagnant soft water habitats (determining environment); The other habitats included in the Znieff are running waters, wet meadows and megaphorbiaies, and woods. The local site of this Znieff includes the entire Ouanne valley and that of ru de maurepas ;
• the Znieff de la Prairie de Fauche in valley of Maurepas and wood neighboring earthenware factory form a rectangle vaste 183 ha improved meadows and cultures (determining housing), shared between the municipalities of Dracy (approximately 14 ha ), Merry-la-Vallée (about 60 ha ), Toucy (about 63 ha ) and Villiers-Saint-Benoit (approximately forty six ha ). The other habitats encountered are running waters, wet meadows and megaphorbiaies, bocage and woods ^{[ 19 ]} . The ru de maurepas crosses this area from east to west, and is joined there at wood of earthenware (in the northern tip of the town of Toucy) by a small rush coming from 900 m South. In the town of Dracy, the area includes Champroux . On Villiers, it covers the south-east of the Bois du Bréau ; On Merry, the hamlet of Maumont and the southern part of the wood of the same name ^{[ 20 ]} .

Furthermore, the Fours stream is the subject of a biotope, natural habitat or geological interest protection decree ^{[ 21 ]} .

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