Marainville-sur-Madon (, literally ''Marainville on

Madon The Madon () is a long river in the Vosges and Meurthe-et-Moselle ''départements'', northeastern France. Its source is near Vioménil. It flows generally north. It is a left tributary of the Moselle into which it flows at Pont-Saint-Vincen ...

'') is a

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in the

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department in

Grand Est Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Grouss Osten; Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administr ...

in northeastern

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Geography

Marainville is positioned in the north-east of

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. It is the last commune traversed by the

before that river continues north into the adjacent département of

Meurthe-et-Moselle Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a department in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. It had a population of 733,760 in 2019.tumulus A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or '' kurgans'', and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones ...

in 1977 and excavated between 1986 and 1988. It appears to be connected with the pre-Christian fortifications at

Saxon-Sion Saxon-Sion is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. In it are located the villages of Saxon and Sion. See also * Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department The following is a list of the 591 communes of ...

Meurthe-et-Moselle Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a department in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. It had a population of 733,760 in 2019.Michał Jan Pac Michał Jan Pac (1730–1787) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, Lithuanian Marshal of the Bar Confederation from 1769 until 1772, Chamberlain of King Augustus. He lived in exile in France after the defeat of the Confederation. In 1780, he bought ...

(1730-1787), a Polish nobleman exiled after the defeat of the

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, bought the castle and Marainville in 1780;See pag
"Adam Weydlich"
on the NIFC site. his steward, Adam Weydlich, made acquaintance with the village ''syndic'', François Chopin. François Chopin had a son, Nicolas. After Pac's death, the Weydlichs left France for Poland, and

Nicolas Chopin Nicolas Chopin (in pl, Mikołaj Chopin; 15 April 17713 May 1844) was a teacher of the French language in History of Poland (1795–1918), Partitioned Poland, and father of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin#Childhood, Frédéric Chopin.Łopaciń ...

emigrated with them; in 1810, his better known son,

Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...

, was born in the Polish village of

Żelazowa Wola Żelazowa Wola () is a village in Gmina Sochaczew, Sochaczew County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies on the Utrata River, some northeast of Sochaczew Sochaczew () is a town in central Poland, with 38,300 inhabitants (2 ...