Ludres () 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, ...
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département
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'' in north-eastern
France
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The inhabitants are called ''Ludréens''. In the past, inhabitants of Ludres were known by their neighbours as ''rôtisseurs'' ("roast meat sellers"), having once turned out en masse to watch their adulterous priest burned at the stake.
[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]
Population
Twin towns
Ludres is
twinned with:
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Furth im Wald
Furth im Wald (in Czech ''Brod nad Lesy'', resp. ''Bavorský Brod'') is a town in Bavaria, Germany, near the Czech Republic, Czech border in the Bavarian Forest, northeast of Cham, Germany, Cham, and southwest of Domažlice. The city is known as ...
, Germany
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Furth bei Göttweig
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*Aigen
*Furth bei Göttweig
*Klein-Wien
*Oberfucha
*Palt
*Steinaweg
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, Austria
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Domažlice
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, Czech Republic
See also
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References
External links
Official Ludres website
Communes of Meurthe-et-Moselle
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