Lagrange (Territory of Belfort)

See also: Lagrange

Lagrange is a common French, located in the department of the Territoire of Belfort and the area Franche-Comté. It is administratively attached to the Canton of Fountain and belonged to the Communauté of communes of the Lime. The village is located at 1 km of trunk road RN83.

A secondary Roman way crossed the territory of Lagrange, coming from Lacollonge and moving towards Angeot.

Oldest mention of Lagrange date of 1322. The village depended on the town hall of Bethonvilliers and on prévôté of Belfort.

After Larivière became an autonomous parish in 1741, the inhabitants of Lagrange asked (in 1774) to attend the very new church of Larivière, twice less distant than that from Angeot to which it were to go before. In 1751 the village gathers a hundred inhabitants. Currently (in 1999) the population is of 101 inhabitants after being fallen with 31 inhabitants in 1946. A junction of the local railroad coming from Errues, brought into service in 1913, passed by Lagrange before joining Angeot and Lachapelle-under-Rougemont.

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