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Foug is a common French, located in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and the area Lorraine.

The inhabitants of Foug are called Faouins and Faouines .

Geography

The town of Foug is located at 30 km in the West of Nancy and at 10 km of Toul. Its altitude is of 261 meters to the top of the sea level (Station).

We have here the most spectacular case and most famous of river capture: the Valley of Asne (become dry valley) when formerly the the Moselle (the small Meuse ) joined the Meuse.

In spring 1659, part of the French regiment of the Marshal-Duke of Ferté-Sennecterre (France occupying part of the Lorraine ) settles in Foug. A young talented engineer (patented at 21 years Engineer of the King dated May 3rd, 1655) 25 years, affected with this regiment, before being then sent in garrison to Nancy, wrote: I considered several times this valley valley of Asne which caused me admiration, because it seems to me that there was formerly a communication of the one with the other of the rivers . This young engineer will become Marshal of France under the name of Sebastien Prestre de Vauban. Source of the text: Memory concerning the junction of the Meuse and the Moselle, Dunkirk June 8th, 1679.

History

Origin of the name: of Latin Fagus - who means Hêtre - Foug was named thus because of the forest which surrounds the village. Forest, almost exclusively made up of beeches and oaks and which is always also dense nowadays.

The fruit of the beech was used to manufacture soap, activity which perduré until the 19th century and which one finds traces with the place says “the Soap one”.

The Roman Voie which went from Rheims to Toul passed by the current farm the Soap ones.

At the time franque, there was a royal villa (villa regia Saponaria ) and a Nécropole which was excavated with 19th with the locality Ancien Cemetery the Soap ones.

The counts de Bar founded a castle in 1218 which will be destroyed in 1634. This castle resisted the seat of the duke of Lorraine in 1332. It was the residence of the counts de Bar at the 15th century. It is with the castle of Foug that in 1419 the treaty was concluded envisaging the marriage from Rene I {{er}} from Anjou and Isabelle from Lorraine which was to lead to the union of the duchies of Lorraine and from Bar.

For a long time, Foug was famous for the wines (but also for its famous croutonnade), which was produced there but the forest recovers from now on old the vineyards. However, of the vineyards always thrive in the resident of Toul, producing excel it Gris of Toul, having obtained AOC in 1998.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The church goes back to 1703 and has a Orgue going back to 1855 which was recently restored. Concerts are organized regularly. One can get information about a site which is dedicated to this organ.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Meurthe-et-Moselle

External bonds

Organ of Foug
Foug on the site of the national geographical Institute
Foug on the site of INSEE
Foug on the site of Quid
Localization of Foug on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Foug on Mapquest

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