Fontenoy-le-Château | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Fontenoy-le-Chateau 2.svg |
Arrondissement: | Épinal |
Canton: | Le Val-d'Ajol |
Insee: | 88176 |
Postal Code: | 88240 |
Mayor: | Patrick Vilmar[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CA Épinal |
Coordinates: | 47.9744°N 6.2°W |
Elevation M: | 257 |
Elevation Min M: | 247 |
Elevation Max M: | 461 |
Area Km2: | 34.6 |
Fontenoy-le-Château (in French pronounced as /fɔ̃tnwa lə ʃɑto/) is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. In January 2013 it merged with the former commune of Le Magny.
The poet Nicolas Joseph Florent Gilbert was born on December 15, 1750, in Fontenoy-le-Château.Julie-Victoire Daubié (26 March 1824 in Bains-les-Bains – 26 August 1874 in Fontenoy-le-Château). She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university when she obtained a bachelor's degree in Lyon in 1861.Rico Daniels who is Le Salvager, a TV programme made by Discovery Real Time, lives here and his TV show is filmed here.
The Côney forms the commune's north-eastern border, flows south-westward through the middle of the commune, crosses the village, and forms part of the commune's south-western border.
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