Taillancourt

Taillancourt
region	Grand Est
Department	Meuse
Arrondissement	Commercy
Canton	Vaucouleurs
Community association	Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs
Coordinates	48 ° 32 ' N , 5 ° 42' E Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ' N , 5 ° 42' E
height	257-422 m
surface	11.09 km 2
Residents	127 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	11 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	55140
INSEE code	55503
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Taillancourt is a French commune with 127 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ); it belongs to the Arrondissement Commercy and the community association Communauté de communes de Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs .

geography

Taillancourt is located around 40 kilometers west-southwest of Nancy in the south of the Meuse department. The place is on the Meuse . Large parts of the municipality are forested (Bois de Taillancourt).

Neighboring municipalities are Champougny in the north and northeast, Montbras in the east, Burey-la-Côte and Goussaincourt in the southeast, and south, Vouthon-Bas in the southwest, Amanty in the west and Maxey-sur-Vaise in the west and northwest.

history

Like all places in the area, Taillancourt suffered from conflict in the Middle Ages. The worst devastation was caused by the Hundred Years War and the Thirty Years War . The name of today's parish was first mentioned in a document in 1327 under the name Tallancourt . In the Middle Ages, today's municipality was within the Champagne region and belonged to the Bailliage Chaumont. From 1766 until the French Revolution , the community was in the Grand-gouvernement de Lorraine-et-Barrois . Taillancourt belonged to the District Gondrecourt from 1793 to 1801. From 1793 to 1801 it was part of the canton of Maxey sur Vaise. It has been in the canton of Vaucouleurs since 1801. The parish has been assigned to the Arrondissement of Commercy since 1801.

Population development

The parish shares the fate of many rural parishes in France. From 1840 the rural exodus begins. From the high in 1800 to the low in 1982, the number of residents decreased by 81.2 percent. In the last few decades the population has grown again strongly (1982–2016: +37.5 percent).

year	1793	1800	1841	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011	2016
Residents	486	510	496	129	108	115	96	98	121	132	150	132
Sources: Cassini and INSEE