Marainville-sur-Madon | |
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Commune | |
Coordinates: 48°23′55″N 6°10′12″E / 48.3986°N 6.17°ECoordinates: 48°23′55″N 6°10′12″E / 48.3986°N 6.17°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Grand Est |
Department | Vosges |
Arrondissement | Épinal |
Canton | Charmes |
Intercommunality | CC Mirecourt Dompaire |
Government | |
• Mayor (2008–2014) | Anne Simonin |
Area1 | 4.88 km2 (1.88 sq mi) |
Population (2006)2 | 92 |
• Density | 19/km2 (49/sq mi) |
Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
• Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
INSEE/Postal code | 88286 /88130 |
Elevation | 247–307 m (810–1,007 ft) (avg. 300 m or 980 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Marainville-sur-Madon is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Marainville is positioned in the north-east of the département. It is the last commune traversed by the Madon before that river continues north into the adjacent département of Meurthe-et-Moselle.
The land is devoted to agriculture: there is no longer any forest in the commune.
A seventh-century tomb was identified under a tumulus in 1977 and excavated between 1986 and 1988. It appears to be connected with the at Saxon-Sion in Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Michał Jan Pac (1730-1787), a Polish nobleman exiled after the defeat of the Bar Confederation, bought the castle and Marainville in 1780; his steward, Adam Weydlich, made acquaintance with the village syndic, François Chopin.
François Chopin had a son, Nicolas. After Pac's death, the Weydlichs left France for Poland, and Nicolas Chopin emigrated with them; in 1810, his better known son, Frédéric Chopin, was born in the Polish village of Żelazowa Wola.