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Mirecourt was founded during the first millennium. Mercuri Curtis was dedicated by the
Romans to the cult of the god Mercury. Early on, the town was part of the property of the Counts of Toul.
The first surviving written record of Mirecourt dates from 960. This is the text of a donation made by a man called Urson who transferred his domain of Mirecourt (two farmsteads and environs) to the Abbey of Bouxières-aux-Dames.
The heirs to the Counts of Toul were the Dukes of Lorraine who owned the little town during the thirteenth century. An act of 1284, during the time of
Duke Frederick III, confirms the annexation of Mirecourt and its lands to the Duchy of Lorraine. Mirecourt, the main town in the important
Vôge Bailiwick, was above all a great trading centre. A European focus of economic and commercial energy during the sixteenth century was from where the Dukes of Lorraine introduced to Mirecourt the manufacture of string instruments, a tradition which continues to flourish. At the same time Mirecourt became a centre of organ building.
The last Duke of Lorraine to rule the territory was the former Polish king, Stanisław Leszczyński. He died early in 1766 and Lorraine passed to his grandson, by now
King of France. In this way the long struggle to control the territories between France and the Rhine was settled in a manner which no doubt would have pleased. Ten years later, in 1776, the office of Lieutenant-General of the Bailiwick was sold to the young .
Under the secular regime established in the wake of the , Mirecourt became the administrative centre of the district and then of the entire
. This last distinction was lost in 1926, and today Mirecourt falls within the Arrondissement of Neufchâteau.
One of the first boys' primary schools in France was founded at Mirecourt in 1828.
source: wiképedia
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Vosges History
Following in the Romans’ footsteps who had already made them into prestigious health centres, many people hurry there each year, eager to experience the combination of therapeutic benefits and exceptional stays in resorts offering multiple leisure activities.
The most prestigious guests have followed each other since the Middle-Ages (Voltaire, Montaigne, Stanislas, Leczinski, Napoléon III, Hector Berlioz, etc…) and many guests eagerly continue to experience the virtues of the hot springs discovered by the Romans in the 2nd century.
Even though nature is more preserved here than elsewhere, in the Vosges men have always built typical villages, churches and abbeys, erected castles and fortresses, passionately designed as architectural masterpieces so as to leave behind in stonework the living landmarks of a period, an identity and a collective culture.
Celtic relics to Roman oppidums, from the raw beauty of a Roman crypt to the finesse and elegance of a gothic church, from flamboyant to utter baroque style, from popular art to the audacity of the contemporary, all influences and styles are included for the pleasure of amateurs.
From the Roman « Pacification » to the period of Joan of Arc, from the renaissance to the second empire, from the battlefields of 1915 to the liberation exploits of Marshal Leclerc, the Vosges is a land of history, complex and tortured, leaving a rich and exceptionally diverse heritage. |
référence: Wikepedia
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