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Saône-et-Loire

[sohn-ey-lwar]

noun

  1. a department in E France. 3,331 sq. mi. (8,625 sq. km). Mâcon.



Saône-et-Loire

/ sonelwar /

noun

  1. a department of central France, in Burgundy region. Capital: Mâcon. Pop: 543 848 (2003 est). Area: 8627 sq km (3365 sq miles)

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Early on Tuesday, the burglars broke into the cellar at the Domaine de Rymska, a hotel in the Burgundy region known for its wine, and stole bottles estimated to be worth the equivalent of nearly $430,000, Decanter reported, citing Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire, a local newspaper.

Up to 30 attacks have been reported in pastures across the country since February, the most recent taking place on Thursday in the Saone-et-Loire region, in east-central France.

This is absolutely barbaric,” a local official told Reuters earlier this month after an attack in Cortambert, a village in the Saone-et-Loire region.

The following day, a young pony was targeted in the Saone-et-Loire region.

“We are excluding nothing,” Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie said Friday on France-Info, before heading to a riding club in the Saone-et-Loire region, in east central France, where a horse was attacked a day earlier.

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