Verchain-Maugré | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason de la ville de Verchain-Maugré (Nord).svg |
Arrondissement: | Valenciennes |
Canton: | Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes |
Insee: | 59610 |
Postal Code: | 59227 |
Mayor: | Christian Bisiaux[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CA Valenciennes Métropole |
Coordinates: | 50.2686°N 3.4775°W |
Elevation M: | 43 |
Elevation Min M: | 32 |
Elevation Max M: | 88 |
Area Km2: | 9.62 |
Verchain-Maugré (in French pronounced as /vɛʁʃɛ̃ moɡʁe/; in the Middle Ages, Werchin) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.[2]
Between 1383 and 1415, the poet and renowned jouster Jean de Werchin was the lord of Werchin.