Marville, Meuse  

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"Besides its religious and funerary monuments dating back to the Middle Ages, Marville has rare signs of the Spanish Renaissance in Gaume."--Sholem Stein


"Le mont Saint- Hilaire, par M M. F. Liénard et l'abbé Thiay, dans les Mémoires de la Société philomatique de Verdun, t . IV, 1850, p . 83-121 , avec 17 pl . Il existe une histoire manuscrite de Marville, par Dom Tabouillot, originaire de cette localité , l'un des auteurs de la grande Histoire de Metz. – A titre de renseignements, on peut encore consulter : L.-A. Bizot , Histoire de Marville, Montmédy, 1848 ; Bonnabelle, Notice sur Marville, Montmédy, 1880 ; enfin, Jeantin, Manuel de la Meuse, art , Marvillo. – C'est au cimetière Saint Hilaire que M. A. Digot a cru reconnaître l'emplacement, sujet de discussions nombreuses, du Castrum Wabrense, qui fut le théâtre d'un événement historique important. (V. Hist. d'Austrasie, t. II , 1863, p. 316 et suiv.)"--Revue historique de la Lorraine

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Marville is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.

The region, Gaume, purportedly has a microclimate.

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History

Marville was a part of the Duchy of Luxembourg 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.

Geography

The village lies on the left bank of the Othain, which forms most of the commune's eastern border.

Church

Ossuarium

The 16th century cemetery features an ossuary, which counts at least 40.000 skulls and a warning to remember our mortality: "Nous avons été comme vous/ Vous serez comme nous/ Priez Dieu pour nous." ("We have been like you/ You will be like us/ Pray God for us.")

In 1890 the keeper of the cemetery, Constant Motsch, arranged the skulls and bones in their current position.

After a vandalization in the 2010s, the ossuary was restored in the beginning of the year 2020.

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