Vosges
The Vosges ( , ; ; Franconian and ) is a range of medium 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 geomorphological unit and ...
Grand Est
Grand Est (; ) is an Regions of France, administrative region in northeastern France. It superseded three former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-A ...
in northeastern
France
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. In January 2013 it merged with the former commune of Le Magny.
Personalities
The poet Nicolas Joseph Florent Gilbert was born on December 15, 1750, in Fontenoy-le-Château.
Julie-Victoire Daubié (26 March 1824 in Bains-les-Bains – 26 August 1874 in Fontenoy-le-Château). She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university when she obtained a bachelor's degree in Lyon in 1861.
Rico Daniels who is ''Le Salvager'', a TV programme made by
Discovery Real Time
Discovery Real Time was a British television channel owned by Discovery Networks UK focused on educational and learning content.
History
It was originally launched on 9 March 1992 as The Learning Channel, United Kingdom's version of the Ameri ...
, lives here and his TV show is filmed here.
Geography
The
Côney
The Côney () is a long river in the Vosges (department), Vosges and Haute-Saône ''departments of France, départements'', northeastern France. Its source is near ''Lion Faing'', a lieu-dit in Dounoux. It flows generally southwest. It is a left t ...
forms the commune's north-eastern border, flows south-westward through the middle of the commune, crosses the village, and forms part of the commune's south-western border.