“We are the biggest municipality in Côte-d’Or,” says, a little amused, Nicolas Schmit, 62, mayor of Villiers-le-Duc. This village, which has 108 inhabitants (1), is located in Châtillonnais. On the occasion of the recent publication of legal population figures by INSEE(2) for Burgundy-Franche-Comté, we wanted to meet the inhabitants of this commune which has the largest surface area in the department. . Villiers-le-Duc extends, in fact, over no less than… 84.34 square kilometers, more than double the size of the town, which, for the general public, is the “largest” in Côte-d’Or , namely Dijon (40.41 square kilometers) (3). In Villiers, the population density represents a whopping 1.28 inhabitants per square kilometer.
Trees by the tens of thousands and areas of tranquility
Before arriving in the center of the village, obviously by road, what is immediately striking is the scale of the forest, with trees by the tens of thousands….
2024-01-06 09:15:12
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