BOURBON-LANCY, watering-place, east-central France, department of Saone-et-Loire, 52m. S.S.E. of Nevers by rail. Pop. , 1,939. The town on a hill about 2m. from the right bank of the Loire possesses thermal springs, used in the Roman period, and ancient baths have been found. The waters, saline and ferru ginous, are used for drinking and bathing, in cases of rheumatism, etc. In the middle ages Bourbon-Lancy was an important strong hold and a fief of the Bourbon family. There are a bathing estab lishment, a large hospital, a secularized church (11th and 12th centuries), a belfry pierced by a gateway of the 15th century, and houses of the 15th and 16th centuries. Farm implements are made.