Art-sur-Meurthe (, literally ''Art on
Meurthe'') is a
commune in the
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a '' département'' in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. Its prefecture and largest city is Nancy and it borders the departments of Meuse to the west, Vosges to the south, ...
department in northeastern
France
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The commune covers an area of 11.47 km² (4.43 sq mi). The current mayor is Jean-Pierre Dessein.
Population
In the past, inhabitants of Art-sur-Meurthe were known by their neighbours as ''haut-la-queue'' ("hoity-toitys").
[Graham Robb, ''The Discovery of France'', p36, Picador (2007), , citing Vital Collet "Sobriquets caractérisant les habitants de villages lorrains" in ''Le Pays lorrain'', Nancy (1908), pp442-449 and Henri-Adolphe Labourasse, "Anciens us, coutumes, légendes, supersititions, préjugés, etc. du département de la Meuse" in ''Mémoires de la Société des lettres, sciences et art de Bar-le-Duc'', 1902, pp3-225]
See also
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References
Artsurmeurthe
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