Vigneulles

Vigneulles
Commune

Coat of arms
Vigneulles

Coordinates: 48°33′41″N 6°19′55″E / 48.5614°N 6.3319°E / 48.5614; 6.3319Coordinates: 48°33′41″N 6°19′55″E / 48.5614°N 6.3319°E / 48.5614; 6.3319
Country France
Region Grand Est
Department Meurthe-et-Moselle
Arrondissement Lunéville
Canton Lunéville-2
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du val de Meurthe
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Philippe Daniel
Area1 5.57 km2 (2.15 sq mi)
Population (1999)2 209
 • Density 38/km2 (97/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 54565 /54360
Elevation 207–335 m (679–1,099 ft)
(avg. 200 m or 660 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.

Vigneulles is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département in north-eastern France.

In the past, inhabitants of Vigneulles were known by their neighbours as poussais ("chasers"), having taken up pitchforks to chase off the villagers from Barbonville who had come to steal their supposedly miracle performing statue of the Virgin.[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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