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Lexy

Lexy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, a commune of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in France


Armance

Amance, Meurthe-et-Moselle, a commune of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département in France

Basalt cross

Their geographic distribution is centred on the basalt quarries of Mayen and Mendig, and covers an area with a radius of approximately 30 kilometres between the Rhine, Ahr and Moselle rivers.

Battle of Metz

Armoured cavalry elements of the United States XX Corps, while on a reconnaissance operation in the direction of the Moselle, made contact with elements from the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division on 6 September 1944.

Born, Luxembourg

The Romans became firmly established in nearby Trier or Augusta Treverorum, a prosperous regional capital, but they also developed communities in the Moselle and Sauer valleys, especially at Wasserbillig (Biliacum), the bridge over the Sauer on the Roman road from Trier to Reims (Civitas Remorum), and Echternach, the bridge on the road from Arlon (Orolaunum), to Bitburg (Vicus Beda).

Briedern

The municipality lies on the river Moselle upstream from the weir at Bruttig-Fankel between Cochem and Zell in the middle of the Cochemer Krampen, a 24-kilometre-long stretch of the Moselle made up of many winding bows.

Col de Saverne

The Col de Saverne (Pass of Saverne or Saverne Pass) is a natural pass in the north of the Vosges mountains, near Saverne, which permits travel between the département of Bas-Rhin, région Alsace and the département of Moselle, région Lorraine.

Contz-les-Bains

The commune is located in the Pays de Sierck at the confluence of the Sauer (known in French as the Sûre) and the Moselle, which form the borders with Luxembourg and Germany.

Edgar H. Lloyd

On that day, near Pompey, France, he single-handedly destroyed five enemy machine gun positions.

Eduard Deisenhofer

Deisenhofer commanded the division during the heavy fighting against the Americans on the Moselle and in the subsequent withdrawal to Metz.

Erckmann-Chatrian

Both Erckmann and Chatrian were born in the département of Moselle, in the Lorraine region in the extreme north-east of France.

Fort de Villey-le-Sec

About 1900 a firing range was created with the fort at Gondreville in the edge of the Forest of Haye, to test the fort's weapons.

More imposing than the north battery, the south battery was planned to cover the Marron road, taking the valley of the Moselle in enfilade and facing the Bois l'Eveque.

Fort Jeanne d'Arc

The site was designated the Moselle Common Area Control (MCAC), and provided air traffic control for a portion of Northeastern France and adjoining areas of Luxembourg and West Germany, along with approach control for four USAF bases as well as a flight plan service for RCAF Station Grostenquin.

François Nau

François Nau (May 13, 1864 at Thil – September 2, 1931 at Paris) was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, Syriacist, and specialist in oriental languages.

Gaston Féry

Born in Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle he competed for France in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Géo André, Maurice Delvart and André Devaux in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay event.

Goodfellow Air Force Base

On 14 September 1918, 1st Lieutenant John J. Goodfellow, Jr., of San Angelo, Texas, boarded his Salmson 2A2 observation plane at Gondreville Airfield in France to conduct visual reconnaissance behind enemy lines.

Guillaume Schnaebelé

On April 21, 1887, the French Havas news agency published a dispatch to the effect that Schnaebelé, a mid-level and obscure French police inspector, had been arrested by two agents of the German secret police on the Franco-German frontier near Pagny-sur-Moselle, as he was on his way to Ars-sur-Moselle for a meeting with the German police inspector there, at the latter's request.

Harry Rabinger

But he also painted the quieter villages and valleys of the Moselle and the Alzette and the mountains up in the Oesling.

Isaiah Berlin

In 1956, he married Aline Halban, née de Gunzbourg, who was not only the former wife of an Oxford colleague and a former winner of the ladies' golf championship of France, but from an exiled half Russian-aristocratic and half ennobled-Jewish banking and petroleum family (her mother was Yvonne Deutsch de la Meurthe, granddaughter of Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe) based in Paris.

Jean I de Croÿ

Jean I de Croÿ, Seigneur de Croÿ et d'Araines, Baron de Renty et de Seneghem (around 1365 – Agincourt on October 25, 1415) was the founder of the House of Croÿ .

John of Gorze

John of Gorze was born at Vandières near Pont-à-Mousson to parents who were wealthy and well known in the area.

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

The Boismortier family moved from the composer's birthplace in Thionville (in Lorraine) to the town of Metz where he received his musical education from Joseph Valette de Montigny, a well-known composer of motets.

Keltenmuseum

There are two immediate parallels to this jug, the pair of jugs in the British Museum from a probable burial at Basse-Yutz in the French Moselle Valle .

Leudwinus

His coffin was placed alone on a ship that was sailed by itself, first to Moselle, then Saar and finally docked at Mettlach where the church bells began to ring.

Li-An

Li-An (born 1965 in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, Meurthe et Moselle, France) is a French comics author.

Matej Kocak

October 4, 1918, found him taking part in the Allied drive against the enemy in the Argonne Forest between the Moselle and Forest of Argonne in the vicinity of Blanchmont in Champagne, France, and in the attack against the enemy in the St. Mihiel sector in the vicinity of Thiaucourt, France.

Medal for civilian prisoners, deportees and hostages of the 1914-1918 Great War

The Medal for civilian prisoners, deportees and hostages of the 1914-1918 Great War was awarded to the inhabitants of all the regions invaded by the enemy, including those from the Upper-Rhine, Lower-Rhine and Moselle regions, deported civilian prisoners, brought as hostages or interned in concentration camps.

Metz–Luxembourg railway

The line leaves Metz in a northern direction, downstream along the river Moselle.

Moselle Viaduct

Moselle Viaduct is also the name of the 1974 bridge where Bundesautobahn 1 between Wittlich and Trier crosses the river Moselle near Schweich.

Orny

Orny, Moselle, a commune of the Moselle département, in France

Ouvrage Ferme Chappy

It is located at the western end of the Fortified Sector of the Crusnes near Longuyon in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, facing Belgium.

Ouvrage Métrich

The principal mission of the ouvrage was to cover the east side of the Moselle valley.

Pierre-Dominique Bazaine

He was born 13 January 1786, in the town of Scy-sur-Moselle, son of Pierre Bazaine (1760-1832) and Francoise Gilbert.

Pierreville

Pierreville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, France

Rembercourt

Rembercourt-sur-Mad, a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of Lorraine, France

Renault Master

The van was manufactured at Renault's then new SoVAB Batilly plant in northeastern France.

Réseau Ferré de France

The first regional control centre is being built in Pagny-sur-Moselle.

Rhein-class monitor

In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the Imperial German Navy decided that it needed to build river gunboats for service on the Rhine and Moselle to defend the German border.

Robert Schuman

His father, Jean-Pierre Schuman (1837–1900), was born in Évrange, Moselle, just across the border with Luxembourg.

Roth, Rhein-Hunsrück

The municipality lies in the Hunsrück roughly 2 km northeast of Kastellaun and 14 km southeast of the Moselle at Treis-Karden.

Saarland Police

The Police Support Group consists of the state's rapid reaction company, police dog section, the police band and the river police station in Beckingen that patrols the Saar and Moselle in Saarland.

Santos-Dumont number 6

In April 1900, Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe offered the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize, also simply known as the "Deutsch prize", of 50,000 francs to the first machine capable of flying a round trip from the Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and back in less than thirty minutes.

Sébastien Briat

Sébastien Briat was an anti-nuclear activist from Meuse, France who gained international media attention in 2004 when he was struck and killed by a train carrying nuclear waste near Avricourt, France, after chaining himself to the tracks while participating in a protest against nuclear power.

Syren, Luxembourg

Syren is the source of the Syre river, which flows down to the Moselle, through some of Luxembourg's wealthiest districts.

Theodor Berkelmann

At the beginning of the Second World War, Berkelmann was appointed "Höherer SS und Polizeiführer" (SS and Police Leader) in Saarland and Moselle.

Velaine

Velaine-en-Haye, a commune in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle

Wasserbillig

On the opposite side of the Moselle and linked by a ferry lies Oberbillig, Germany; on the opposite side of the Sauer and linked by vehicle and rail bridges lies Wasserbilligerbrück, Germany.


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