Marville () is a
commune in the
Meuse
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History
From 1301, the upper ...
department in
Grand Est
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in north-eastern
France
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.
An
airbase
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built by
NATO
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hosted fighter squadrons from the
RCAF from 1952 to 1967.
Geography
The village lies on the left bank of the
Othain, which forms most of the commune's eastern border.
History
Marville was a part of the
Duchy of Luxembourg
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until 1659. It was in this year that the
first partition of Luxembourg was decided by the European great powers and thus Marville and the surrounding villages became part of the
Kingdom of France
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.
Marville was used as the fictional commune of Saint-Clothilde in the 2002
Bruno Cremer Maigret episode ''Maigret et le fou de Saint-Clothilde'' (adapted from ''Maigret et le fou de Bergerac'').
See also
*
Communes of the Meuse department
The following is a list of the 499 Communes of France, communes of the Meuse (department), Meuse Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of ...
References
Communes of Meuse (department)
Three Bishoprics
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