Moncel-sur-Seille explained

Moncel-sur-Seille
Commune Status:Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:Blason ville fr Moncel sur Seille (54).svg
Arrondissement:Nancy
Canton:Grand Couronné
Insee:54374
Postal Code:54280
Mayor:Alain Chane[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:CC Seille et Grand Couronné
Coordinates:48.7658°N 6.4225°W
Elevation M:206
Elevation Min M:195
Elevation Max M:283
Area Km2:12.41

Moncel-sur-Seille (in French pronounced as /mɔ̃sɛl syʁ sɛj/, literally Moncel on Seille) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département in north-eastern France.

The commune covers an area of 12.41 km² (4.79 sq mi). Alain Chane is the mayor for the 2020-2026 tenure.

In the past, inhabitants of Moncel were known by their neighbours as culs crottés ("shit arses"), on account of the unusually clingy mud of their village.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
  2. Graham Robb, The Discovery of France, p36, 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