The Villeblevin monument to Albert Camus

Villeblevin is a small French town and commune located in the Yonne département and the Bourgogne région. The town achieved prominence in 1960 when it was the site of the car crash that killed Albert Camus. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x1024, 270 KB) The monument to the French writer and philosopher Albert Camus (1913-1960), built in the small town of Villeblevin (France) where he found death in a car crash on January 4, 1960. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x1024, 270 KB) The monument to the French writer and philosopher Albert Camus (1913-1960), built in the small town of Villeblevin (France) where he found death in a car crash on January 4, 1960. ... The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Yonne is a French département named after the Yonne River. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ... Capital Dijon Land area¹ 31,582 km² Regional President François Patriat (PS) (since 2004) Population  - Jan. ... France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common... Albert Camus (pronounced ) (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries of absurdism. ...

The current mayor of Villeblevin is Marc Leruse who is serving a term of 2001-2007.

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