Puzieux | |
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 The town hall in Puzieux | |
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 Location of Puzieux | |
  Puzieux  Puzieux | |
| Coordinates:48°20′01″N6°05′54″E / 48.3336°N 6.0983°E /48.3336; 6.0983 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Vosges |
| Arrondissement | Neufchâteau |
| Canton | Mirecourt |
| Intercommunality | CC Mirecourt Dompaire |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Philippe Nicolas[1] |
Area 1 | 5.42 km2 (2.09 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 146 |
| • Density | 26.9/km2 (69.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 88364 /88500 |
| Elevation | 268–345 m (879–1,132 ft) (avg. 270 m or 890 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Puzieux (French pronunciation:[pyzjø]ⓘ) is acommune in theVosgesdepartment inGrand Est in northeasternFrance.
Inhabitants acre calledPutéoliens.
Puzieux in the Vosges département should not be confused with thePusieux in theMoselledépartement to the north.
Puzieux is sited on the north-east of the Vosges Plain, close to the neighbouringMeurthe-et-Moselle département. The village is within theCanton ofMirecourt, itself some 4 kilometres (2 mi) to the south-east. Beyond the south side of Puzieux is the approach path for thelocal airport.
The communal territory is traversed by two streams called Les Pierres and Oëlleville. The streams are set in grassland, while the slightly drier land in the commune is used forarable farming. Around the village there are someorchards along with the surviving traces of oldvineyards. Save at the outer limits ff the commune, little remains of the forest which probably covered most of the land here in ancient times.
The name Puzieux has mutated from theGallo-Roman period name which was Puzeoli. Various ideas have been advanced concerning the ancient origin of this name, but the most plausible is that it refers to a pit dug in the ground for the storage of grain. It is known from other sources that Pusieux was at the heart of the Xantois region which produced large amounts offarmed wheat at that time: the presence of grain storage facilities at the heart of such a region would therefore not be surprising.
During theThirty Years' War the village was destroyed by invadingSwedish forces. The first half of the seventeenth century was a miserable period. During the reign, in France, ofLouis XIII Puzieux was subjected to the ravages of theFrench invaders supported by their savage northern allies. At one point it was reported that only three houses of the village remained.
It was only with the return of some measure of peace in 1670 and, more particularly, after 1697 when theTreaty of Ryswick confirmed the restoration of Lorraine to theDukes of Lorraine, that the village could be reconstructed. Modern research suggests that the village rebuilt during the early decades of the eighteenth century was actually the result of the fusion of three villages that had been destroyed by the Swedes, being those previously known as Puzieux, Méréville and Fontenelle.
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