Moncel-sur-Seille

Moncel-sur-Seille
Commune
Moncel-sur-Seille
Location within Grand Est region
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 Grand Est
Department Meurthe-et-Moselle
Arrondissement Nancy
Canton Grand Couronné
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Grand Couronné
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Ennio Bazzara (PR)
Area1 12.41 km2 (4.79 sq mi)
Population (1999)2 474
 • Density 38/km2 (99/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
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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