Auxerre
Administrative centre of Yonne département, in France, 170 km/106 mi southeast of Paris, on the River Yonne; population (1999) 37,800. Auxerre is a market town and produces wines and metal goods.
The Gothic cathedral of St-Etienne, founded in 1215, has three sculptured doorways, 13th-century stained glass in the choir, and a rose-window in each arm of the transept. In the church of St-Germain there are ancient crypts containing paintings from the 9th and 10th centuries.
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