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The old road to Dijon , the Nationale 6, runs from Paris down to the Cote d'Azur, the route taken by the National Guardsmen of Marseille when they marched on Paris singing the Marseillaise in 1792. It enters the province of Burgundy just south of Fontainebleau, near where the River Yonne joins the Seine, and follows the Yonne valley through the historic towns of Sens, Joigny and Auxerre . Scattered in a broad corridor to the west and east of the road, in the valleys of the Yonne's tributaries, the Armancon, Serein, Cure and Cousin rivers, is a fascinating collection of abbeys, chateaux, towns, villages and other sites as ancient as the history of France, while further to the southwest lie the wooded hills of the Morvan . It makes for a route far more interesting, albeit slower, than speeding around the bland curves of its modern replacement, the Autoroute du Soleil (A6) .
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