Les Éparges
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meuse | |
| Arrondissement | Verdun | |
| Canton | Etain | |
| Community association | Territoire de Fresnes-en-Woëvre | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 4 ' N , 5 ° 36' E | |
| height | 255-382 m | |
| surface | 9.52 km 2 | |
| Residents | 67 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 7 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 55160 | |
| INSEE code | 55172 | |
_mairie-%C3%A9cole.JPG) Town hall (Mairie) and school of Les Éparges |
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Les Éparges is a French commune with 67 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the canton of Étain (until 2015: canton of Fresnes-en-Woëvre ) in the arrondissement of Verdun .
geography
The municipality is located about 20 kilometers southeast of Verdun on the western edge of the Woëvre landscape in the Lorraine Regional Nature Park . The municipality is traversed by the Longeau river, which drains over the Yron and the Orne into the Moselle and over the Rhine into the North Sea. Neighboring municipalities are Saint-Remy-la-Calonne in the south, Combres-sous-les-Côtes in the east, Herbeuville in the southeast, Vaux-lès-Palameix in the southwest, Mouilly in the west and Bonzée in the north.
history
Heavy fighting between German and French troops took place in the area of Les Éparges in 1914 and 1915, resulting in many victims. For this reason there are several monuments as well as two smaller military cemeteries in the municipality.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 | 2016 |
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| Residents | 66 | 50 | 43 | 44 | 47 | 63 | 73 | 73 | 69 |
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Attractions
Graveyards:
- National war cemetery with 203 French victims of the First World War, of whom only 86 could be identified.
- Nécropole nationale du Trottoir : 2960 soldiers are buried in an area of 8355 m², 2108 in individual graves, 852 in an ossuary .
- German military cemetery in the forest of the village with twelve graves.
Monuments:
- Memorial near the village church for the French writer Alain-Fournier (1886–1914) and 20 of his comrades who fell on September 22, 1914
- Monument of 106 e d'régiment infantry
- Pioneer Monument: In memory of the pioneers who fell in the mine war
- Monument at point X
- Monument of the 302 e regiment d'infanterie
- Monument à la mémoire des morts de la 12e division d'infanterie , au point C, crête des Éparges
- La statue-buste de Maurice Genevoix
French military cemetery in Saint-Rémy
Landscape of the Woëvre near Les Éparges
Entrance
Michelin signpost in Éparges
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religious monuments
- Saint-Martin Church, built in 1852, destroyed in World War I, rebuilt in 1929.
- Crossroads in the north of the village
- Calvary in the south of the village
Saint Martin Church
Wayside cross
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Awards
The municipality was awarded the Croix de guerre 1914–1918 on March 15, 1921 .
The inscription "LES EPARGES 1915" appears as an honorable mention on the flags of the units that fought here during the Battle of Éparques.
People associated with the community because of the war
- Frédéric Chevillon , from 1912 to 1915 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies under the French Third Republic. Liked by Les Éparges in 1915
- Maurice Genevoix Sous-lieutenant in the 7th company of the 106 e régiment d'infanterie , which was deployed on the heights near Éparges. He published his war memories in four books: Sous Verdun , Nuit de guerre , La Boue , Les Éparges . What is on été condensés en un seul livre: Ceux de 14 .
- Eugène Criqui
- Maxim Real del Sarte
- Ernst Jünger
- Andries Van Wezel
- Mina Fischer
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 434-435.
