Nevers is a town and the prefecture of the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France. It was the princi…Nevers is a town and the prefecture of the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France. It was the principal city of the former province of Nivernais. It is 260 km south-southeast of Paris.