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Mirecourt is a city of the North-East of the France, chief town of canton of the department of the the Vosges, in the Arrondissement of Neufchâteau.

Its inhabitants is called Mirecurtiens.

Geography

Mirecourt is located in the middle of the plain of the Vosges, with the confluence of the Madon and the Val of Arol .

It is also a road crossroads, to 24 km of Vittel, 35 km of Épinal, 40 km of Neufchâteau and 48 km of Nancy. The access to the highway A31 is to 15 km.

History

Mirecourt was founded at the first millenium: Mercuri Curtis was dedicated by the Romans with the worship of Mercure. It was property of the counts of Toul.

It is in 960 that one finds a first hard copy of Mirecourt. This text gives a report on a donation of called Urson which makes donation of its field of Mirecourt (two métaieries and their dependences) to the abbey of Bouxières-with-Ladies.

In the current of the 13th century, it was property of the duke of Lorraine which granted letters of frankness to him. An act of 1284 notes the annexation of Mirecourt and its territory to the duchy of Lorraine (Ferry III). Mirecourt, chief town of important “the Bailliage de Vôge” was before a a whole city of great trade. In 1766, Mirecourt was annexed in France. In 1776, Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau buys the office of general lieutenant of baillage.

Mirecourt was set up in chief town of district then in chief town of district, distinction which it gave up in 1926.

One still manufactures there lace in particular with the Maison of lace. It is also a great center of stringed-instrument trade since the 17th century, Mirecourt claims worthy heiress of the family Stradivarius. A school of stringed-instrument trade was created there in 1970 by Etienne Vatelot.

One manufactured there also mechanical instruments (organ of horse-gear, Serinette S…).

Mirecourt accommodated one of very first the teacher training schools boys of France, founded in 1828. ; Blasonnement:

Of sinople, with the gold fasce. (Malta-Brown, illustrated France , volume V, 1884)
Since August 2nd, 1811: Of azure, with the gold band; with the sinistral quarter of mouths in charge of a money NR surmounted by a radiant star with same.

Tradition and specialities

The Stringed-instrument trade

The origin of the Lorraine stringed-instrument trade seems to go back to the voyages of the dukes of Lorraine in Italy, from where they brought back excellent musicians and violin makers at the end of the 16th century. It is particularly in Mirecourt that the stringed-instrument trade takes its rise; one counts 43 violin makers in 1635 and nearly 2000 to the 16th century. One produced at that time more: 80000 instruments per annum. They are true dynasties of violin makers and archetiers who make the fame of this Art among which one notes the Lupot, Ghent, Bernard, Jacquot, Nicolas, Mougenot, Vuillaume, of which Jean-Baptiste, called the French Stradivarius, Charotte, Apparut, Hilaire, Collin, Laberte, Magnié, Peccate, Bazin, Ouchard. The beginning of the 20th century sees disappearing good number of its prestigious workshops. However, in the years 1970 appears a revival thanks to the creation of the National school of stringed-instrument trade with Mirecourt

Nowadays, the Lutherie always forms part of the traditions of the city, which remain thanks to the National school of stringed-instrument trade and with the Luthier S which still exert in the commune.

A municipal museum of the stringed-instrument trade makes it possible to look further into its knowledge of this craft industry of Article As pictorial works one will note a Portrait of a musician paints by the Belgian painter François-Joseph Navez, gone back to 1836 and the photographic reproduction of a Portrait of the violin maker Nicolas Lupot , by Henriette Lorimier, gone back to 1805, the original was deposited by the municipal museum of the stringed-instrument trade to the Cité of the music of Paris.

Lace

Art with the spindles would go up at the time Egyptian woman. The great invasions plunged this art in the lapse of memory and it is only as from the 16th century, that it was introduced in Lorraine and in particular in Mirecourt by the Italian violin makers, supported by the Ducs of Lorraine. Saint Pierre Fourier, cleaned Mattaincourt, created the brotherhood of the Sisters of Notre-Dame and encouraged those to teach lace in their school and with the orphanage. The young girls of big families worked with this accomplishments to furnish their trousseau. The children of the orphanage, the women of working-class families, the country-women, devoted themselves to it for the profit. In 1790, thousands of lacemakers worked already for traders of all the adjoining countries of our borders and Mirecourt was universally known, thus towards 1850, it was the golden age of lace. In the middle of the 20th century, it remains in Mirecourt only some lacemakers who taught this art, thus ensuring the maintenance of this activity. Today, thanks to a dynamic association with more than 140 participants, Mirecourt found his international repute with its lace with the spindles of an incomparable smoothness, until the creation of Promotion association and Revival of lace. Thanks to this one lace reappears in Mirecourt, one there exempts courses and organizes permanent exposures, with lacemakers with work at the House of Lace.

Administration

The Canton of Mirecourt account 32 communes for a population of 12 401 inhabitants: Ambacourt, Baudricourt, Biécourt, Blémerey, Boulaincourt, Chauffecourt, Chief-High, Dombasle-in-Xaintois, Domvallier, Frenelle-the-Large, Frenelle-the-Small, Hymont, Juvaincourt, Madecourt, Mattaincourt, Mazirot, Ménil-in-Xaintois, Mirecourt , Oëlleville, Poussay, Puzieux, Ramecourt, Remicourt, Repel, Reopen-in-Xaintois, Saint-Menge, Saint-Prancher, Thiraucourt, Totainville, Valleroy-with-Willows, Villers and Vroville.

The Communauté of communes of the Country of Mirecourt gathers 8 communes cumulating 8 093 inhabitants: Ambacourt, Domvallier, Juvaincourt, Mirecourt , Poussay, Puzieux, Ramecourt and Thiraucourt.

Economy

CHS of Ravenel: the departmental psychiatric hospital of the Vosges is located on the commune of Mirecourt. He is still to date the first employer of the commune (approximately a thousand of paid).

On the territory of the commune the aerodrome of Mirecourt is. It is managed by the Chamber of commerce and of industry of the Vosges.

Demography

Places and monuments

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