Varennes-Saint-Sauveur is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Geography The Sevron flows northward through the middle of the commune, then flows into the Solnan, which forms part of the commune's north-eastern border. The Sâne Morte forms most of the commune's western border. Varennes-Saint-Sauveur is part of la Bresse louhannaise. This commune offers a territory of forests and of farming where agricultural activities are the raising of milk cows and of the Bresse chickens. La departmental highway 996 passes through Varennes from north to south. Bodies of water The Sevron River to Varennes, not far from the town. Several rivers run through the commune: the Sâne Morte (especially to the eastern edge of Varennes), the Sevron and the Solnan (bordering Dommartin-lès-Cuiseaux then Frontenaud). It is at Varennes that the Sevron flows into the Solnan. History Up until the French Revolution, Varennes-Saint-Sauveur, a location of the Saône-et-Loire department which originating in 1801 on the diocese of Autun, depended on the diocese of Saint-Claude (founded in 1742). In 1790, Buisserolles (or Busserolles), which is today a hamlet of Varennes, was at that time an independent commune attached to the Ain department and to the township of Saint-Trivier-de-Courtes, which numbered 843 inhabitants according to the 1793 census. It was attached to Varennes-Saint-Sauveur en 1793. In 1793, Varennes-Saint-Sauveur, in the context of the Revolution, its name was changed and it became Varennes-sur-Sevron. Politics and administration List of successive mayors Période Name Political Party Profession ? February 1816 Pierre Joseph Lyonnais March 1816 January 1825 Claude Alexis Yoland de Saint-Mauris Royalist January 1825 ? Claude Alexis Yoland de Saint-Mauris Royalist 1871 1878 Benoît Joseph Victor Collet 1878 1882 Jacques Saulnier 1882 1887 Valéry Collet 1887 1895 Jean Pierre Eugène Constantin Pillard 1896 1933 Victor Eugène Valéry Collet 1933 1946 Claude Raffin 1946 March 1959 Abel Coulon March 1959 March 1965 Paul Guimet Physician March 1965 December 1969 Henri Vincent Teacher January 1970 March 2001 René Beaumont UMP Veterinarian, former deputy, senator and president of the general council of Saône-et-Loire March 2001 to the present Jean-Michel Longin Responsable de bases Demography The change in the number of inhabitants has been found through the censuses of the population taken in the commune since 1793. Beginning in 2006, the official populations of the communes have been published annually by l'Insee. The census relies from that time forward on a collection of