Moncel-sur-Seille

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Moncel-sur-Seille
Moncel-sur-Seille
Coordinates: 48°45′57″N 6°25′21″E / 48.7658°N 6.4225°E / 48.7658; 6.4225Coordinates: 48°45′57″N 6°25′21″E / 48.7658°N 6.4225°E / 48.7658; 6.4225
Country France
Region Lorraine
Department Meurthe-et-Moselle
Arrondissement Arrondissement of Nancy
Canton Canton of Seichamps
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Grand Couronné
Government
  Mayor (20082014) Ennio Bazzara (PR)
Area
  Land1 12.41 km2 (4.79 sq mi)
Population (1999)
  Population2 474
  Population2 Density 38/km2 (99/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 54374 / 54280
Elevation 195–283 m (640–928 ft)
(avg. 206 m or 676 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Moncel-sur-Seille is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département in north-eastern France.

In the past, inhabitants of Moncel were known by their neighbours as culs crottés ("shit arses"), on account of the unusually clingy mud of their village.[1]

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References

  1. Graham Robb, The Discovery of France, p36, Picador (2007), ISBN 978-0-330-42761-6, citing Vital Collet "Sobriquets caractérisant les habitants de villages lorrains" in Le Pays lorrain, Nancy (1908), pp442-449 and Henri-Adolphe Labourasse, "Anciens us, coutumes, légendes, supersititions, préjugés, etc. du département de la Meuse" in Mémoires de la Société des lettres, sciences et art de Bar-le-Duc, 1902, pp3-225
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