Moncel-sur-Seille

Moncel-sur-Seille
Moncel-sur-Seille
Location within Lorraine region  Moncel-sur-Seille
Administration
Country	France
Region	Lorraine
Department	Meurthe-et-Moselle
Arrondissement	Arrondissement of Nancy
Canton	Canton of Seichamps
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Grand Couronné
Mayor	Ennio Bazzara (PR) (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	195–283 m (640–928 ft) (avg. 206 m/676 ft)
Land area1	12.41 km2 (4.79 sq mi)
Population2	474  (1999)
- Density	38 /km2 (98 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	54374/ 54280
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 48°45′57″N 6°25′21″E / 48.7658333333°N 6.4225°E / 48.7658333333; 6.4225

Moncel-sur-Seille is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département in north-eastern France.

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.^[1]

See also

• Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department

References

1. ^ Graham Robb, The Discovery of France, p36, Picador (2007), ISBN9780330427616, 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