Saint-Nicolas-de-Port
Saint-Nicolas-de-Port is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département in north-eastern France. The town's basilica, Saint Nicolas, is a pilgrimage site, supposedly holding relics of Saint Nicholas brought from Italy. It is one of France's Monuments historiques, and a minor basilica since 1950.
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Charles-Édouard Hocquard
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Louis Ferdinand Malespina
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Eugène-Louis Bucquoy, « La Cavalerie légère », Jacques Grancher, coll. « Les uniformes du Premier Empire », 1980, 189 pages.
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Marie-Antoinette Lix
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Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, document disponible sur Numistral
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Overview
The town's inhabitants are known as Portois. In the past, the Portois were known as loudmouths; their neighbours across the Meurthe at Varangéville liked to gather on the opposite river bank to bombard them with a chorus indicating a wish to defecate in their mouths: • Booyaî d'Senn 'Colais, • Tend tet ghieule quand je.. Which in the local Lorrain dialect means: • Loudmouths of St Nicks, • Open your gob when I'm taking a.. St Nicholas-de-Port is also known for fossil remains of very early (late Triassic) ancestral mammals. • Illustration — Basilica of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port
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Key facts
• Name — Saint-Nicolas-de-Port • Commune Status — Commune • Arrondissement — Nancy • Canton — Jarville-la-Malgrange • Insee — 54483 • Postal Code — 54210 • Mayor — Luc Binsinger • Term — 2020–2026 • Intercommunality — Pays du Sel et du Vermois • Elevation M — 232 • Elevation Min M — 201 • Elevation Max M — 292 • Area Km2 — 8.23
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People
• André Joly (1706–1781?), court painter
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- 1.data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. Répertoire national des élus: les maires. 13 September 2022.
- 2.INSEE commune file
- 3.Graham Robb, The Discovery of France, p37, Picador (2007), , citing Vital Collet "Sobriquets caractérisant les habitants de villages lorrains" in Le Pays lorrain, Nancy (1908), pp442-449 and Henri-Adolphe Labourasse, "Anciens us, coutumes, légendes, supersititions, préjugés, etc. du département de la Meuse" in Mémoires de la Société des lettres, sciences et art de Bar-le-Duc, 1902, pp3-225
- 4.Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
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