Coordinates: 48°45′43″N 5°35′34″E / 48.7618598937988°N 5.5926399230957°E / 48.7618598937988; 5.5926399230957
Commercy is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.
It is the home of the madeleines referred to by Marcel Proust in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu.[1]
[edit] History
From 1737 the French Princess Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Dowager Duchess of Lorraine, was the Sovereign Princess of Commercy till her death in 1744. She was the daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate; she was the paternal grandmother of Marie Antoinette. The Principality then went to Stanisław Leszczyński who became the Duke of Lorraine. The Dowager Duchess thus got Commercy in compensation.
In the 18th century, the Château de Commercy was a residence of Polish king Stanisław Leszczyński, who was given the Duchy of Lorraine and Bar after losing his crown in 1736.
[edit] Twin towns
It is twinned with the German town of Hockenheim.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Proust, Marcel (1922). Du côté de chez Swann. À la recherche du temps perdu. Grasset and Gallimard.
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