Manlay

Manlay is a rural commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-east France. It is on the departmental border with Saône-et-Loire.

History

On 31 July 1944, amid the Liberation of France during World War II and ahead of the general retreat of the occupying forces towards Germany, they bombed and burnt down the town as retaliation for French Resistance Maquis activities: