Varennes-le-Grand

Saint-Loup-de-Varennes (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lu də vaʁɛn], literally Saint-Loup of Varennes) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. The commune is home to the world's oldest surviving image, View from the Window at Le Gras. The image was first taken in 1827.

View from the Window at Le Gras (French: Point de vue du Gras) is the oldest surviving photograph. It was created by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce between June 4 and July 18, 1827, in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, and shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, as seen from a high window. The image was created by heliography, a process which Niépce had invented around 1822, and which uses the hardening of bitumen in light to record an image after washing off the remaining unhardened material.

Saint-Ambreuil (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.t‿ɑ̃bʁœj]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

La Ferté Abbey (French: Abbaye de la Ferté; Latin: Firmitas) was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1113 in La Ferté-sur-Grosne in the present commune of Saint-Ambreuil, Saône-et-Loire, France, the first of the four great daughter-houses of Cîteaux Abbey. It was dissolved in 1791.

Saint-Cyr (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ siʁ]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Sevrey is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Épervans (French pronunciation: [epɛʁvɑ̃]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Marnay (French pronunciation: [maʁnɛ]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Beaumont-sur-Grosne (French pronunciation: [bomɔ̃ syʁ ɡʁon], literally Beaumont on Grosne) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Lux (French pronunciation: [ly]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

The Thalie (or Talie) is a short river in Saône-et-Loire, France. It rises at Rully and runs along Chalon-sur-Saône. After 30.4 km, at Saint-Rémy it joins the Corne, close to its confluence with the Saône. It has an average discharge of 0.34 m³/s, and its tributaries are the ru Guillot, ruisseau du Bois and ruisseau de Guerlande.