Vosges
The Vosges ( , ; german: Vogesen ; Franconian and gsw, Vogese) are a range of low mountains in Eastern France, near its border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the border, they form a single ...
area of
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 It superseded three former administrat ...
in northeastern France. Its inhabitants are known as Todas, there is a village and around 60 settlements in the area. The history of the area dates to the
Middle Ages
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.
Geography
Tendon is a comune in the heart of a long valley, composed of a village and about 60 settlements. Situated 19 kilometres to the East of
Épinal
Épinal (; german: Spinal) is a commune in northeastern France and the prefecture of the Vosges department.
Geography
The commune has a land area of . It is situated on the river Moselle, south of Nancy. Épinal station has rail connection ...
, Tendon lies in the valley of the Scouet, a tributary of the
Vologne
The Vologne () is a river of the Vosges department in France. It is a right tributary of the Moselle. Its source is in the Vosges Mountains, on the northwestern slope of the Hohneck. It flows through the lakes of Retournemer and Longemer, and pa ...
via the Barba. 492 hectares are occupied by forest.
Le Tholy
Le Tholy () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
See also
*Communes of the Vosges department
The following is a list of the 507 communes of the Vosges department of France.
The communes cooperate in the ...
is 8 km away via the Bonne Fontaine col at an elevation of 677 m.
History
The ''
ban
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Law
* Ban (law), a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship, being denied from entering or using the place/item
** Imperial ban (''Reichsacht''), a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman ...
'' of Tendon (''Tandon''), comprising the villages of Tendon, Houx, Laveline, Dehiex, Chamontaruz and La Poirie, belonged to the
bailiwick
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of
Remiremont
Remiremont (; german: Romberg or ) is a town and commune in the Vosges department, northeastern France, situated in southern Grand Est. The town has been an abbatial centre since the 7th century, is an economic crossroads of the Moselle and Mosel ...
and depended on the mastery of the waters and forests Épinal. It followed the dress of Lorraine.
In the church, the inhabitants of the current parish of Tendon were part of that of
Docelles
Docelles () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
See also
*Communes of the Vosges department
The following is a list of the 507 communes of the Vosges department of France.
The communes cooperate in the ...
. This ended on 3 September 1707 when the bishop of Toul elevated the small Tendon chapel, which had been built 25 years earlier, into a parish. The bishop's decision was confirmed by the Pope in 1715, against opposition from the bishop of
Metz
Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand E ...
Éloyes
Éloyes () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Éloyes station has rail connections to Épinal, Remiremont and Nancy.
See also
*Communes of the Vosges department
The following is a list of the 507 commun ...
in the district, then arrondissement, of
Remiremont
Remiremont (; german: Romberg or ) is a town and commune in the Vosges department, northeastern France, situated in southern Grand Est. The town has been an abbatial centre since the 7th century, is an economic crossroads of the Moselle and Mosel ...
. After the an IX, the commune was reattached to the Remiremont canton in the arrondissement of Remiremont.
Personalities
Father Voyaux de Franoux, born in 1760, was the founder of a girls school in 1825 and a hospital in 1834 in his native village.
Educated at the collège de Saint-Claude, in
Toul
Toul () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
It is a sub-prefecture of the department.
Geography
Toul is between Commercy and Nancy, and the river Moselle and Canal de la Marne au Rhin.
Climate
Toul h ...
, he studied philosophy and
theology
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Catholic seminary
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, then was sent to the
Sorbonne
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by his bishop, where he received the grade of doctor. He was ordained as a priest and became head of the ''Trente-trois'' seminary Paris. During the
French Revolution
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Louis XVIII
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made him almoner of the French embassy in London and canon of the Chapter of Saint-Denis.
Features
* The Grande Cascade and Petite Cascade of Tendon, the first upstream, at an elevation of 32 metres in the heart of the forest of
firs
Firs (''Abies'') are a genus of 48–56 species of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae. They are found on mountains throughout much of North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The genus is most closely related to ...