Vézelay, a decaying town in the French dept. of Yonne, 5 miles S.E. of Auxerre. Its ancient and curious abbey church was restored by Viollet-le-Duc in 1868. Hither Becket retired in 1168; here
St Bernard preached the Crusade in 1145; and on the plain below Richard Cœur de Lion and Philip Augustus joined their forces in 1190 for the third crusade. Beza was a native. Pop. 612.