Donzy-le-National is a former commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Vineuse sur Fregande.Arrêté préfectoral 28 July 2016
History In 1775, a rabid wolf bit a dozen people in different hamlets of the parish. Some were disfigured and all perished from rabies despite the care provided by a doctor, Dr. Blais, who had gathered the sick in a house in Cluny transformed into a hospital.« La chasse aux loups », article de Jean-Claude Cagnion paru dans la revue « Images de Saône-et-Loire » n° 106 d'août 1996, pages 19 à 21.
During the French Revolution, the town, then called Donzy-le-Royal, was temporarily renamed Donzy-le-National before reverting to its earlier name.From Cassini's villages to today's municipalities " Municipal record: Donzy-le-National ", on ehess.fr, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. It was in 1890 that the town adopted the revolutionary name it bears today. This is the name the town still uses today, like four other towns in the Saône-et-Loire department which, like Donzy-le-National, have retained their revolutionary name.
See also Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department
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