Thiébauménil near Lunéville

We used to drive through Thiébauménil when I was a child to go to the north of the Vosges mountains, then a new road was built and I nearly forgot about this village.

It is situated near Lunéville, on the east side. There are about 400 inhabitants there, near a small river called La Vezouze.

It was devastated during the Thirty Year's War. Later soldiers and people working for the duke of Lorraine used to live in the village as it was so near from the castle. After the French Revolution there was less work and some years less food, so a few families left and went to the USA. I know descendants of at least two of them, the CALAIS and HENRY families.

The old church was replaced by a new one about 200 years ago. At one point of its history the village didn't have a church and people had to go to the nearest village called Marainviller for the children to be christened.

Nowadays Thiébauménil is a quiet village where you can stop to have lunch. People living there use the new road to go to town to work, either to Nancy or to Lunéville, or even somewhere in Moselle, the nearby département.

Comments

[Kay Lamb]

Very nice picture Maryse; can you send a copy? I don't think I have seen this one before!! Is the Pizza place still there? I'm sure we have Perrin family here and of course the Christophe. One of Joseph Prosper Henry's descendants lives at Portland and she married a Perrin from France but I have yet to get any information from her. Do you think it likely that the La Vezouse river Is where Michel Calais Died rather than one of the larger Rivers?

[Maryse]

There is only La Vezouze in Thiébauménil, Marainviller. The Meurthe River comes from Saint-Clément and La Vezouze goes into it in Lunéville.
The restaurant offers different sorts of meals, I think they still propose pizza at lunch time.
I'll have to go there again on a sunny day and see if I can take a picture of La Vezouze.