Maxéville

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

Geography

History

Formerly Maxéville was written Machéville and until a recent date the inhabitants called their city thus.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

  • Ferry III, duke of Lorraine was removed and imprisoned on the heights of the village by the lords maxévillois. The duke was found 5 years later in the tower of Maxéville, by a roofer called Petit Jean Dethillon. This one, by repairing the roof of pigeon, sang the song of Ferry III which was announced to lui.
    Le roofer warned the woman of the duke and its princes the délivrèrent.
    Le duke punishes the Maxévillois lords (of Armoises) by seizing their grounds and their castles and it proscribed the armorial bearings of the blazon maxévillois.
    Pendant several generations the lords maxévillois paid by blood the faults of their ancestors by sending to the war wire of Maxéville.
    Petit Jean was found by the lords maxévillois and was assassinated. However the duke anoblit his sons and his family giving stock to the family of Hautoy.

  • Jean Proven (1901-1984), architect, had his workshop with Maxéville.

  • Mgr Jean-Pierre Cattenoz (born in 1945), archbishop of Avignon, born in Maxéville.
  • Christian Levesque (born in?), champion professional senior of the Dictated of Americas in 1997

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