Patrice Wahlen is a historian and a talented teacher who makes you love history. He presents "L'Yonne, un département, des territoires". Born during the Revolution out of the forced union of multiple and sometimes rival territories, whether religious, political or administrative, the Yonne is now seeking a strong identity that it can only build by lucidly assuming its roots, those of a complex past, essentially stemming from Antiquity and the Middle Ages. At the heart of the matter, the balance between Sénonais, Auxerrois and Avallonnais never ceases to raise questions. But the past is no justification for nostalgia for what was: it is only useful if it helps to lay the foundations for a future that has yet to be built.
