Saint-Nicolas-de-Port
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Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département in north-eastern France.[2]
The town's basilica, Saint Nicolas, is a pilgrimage site, supposedly holding relics of Saint Nicholas brought from Italy. It is one of France's Monuments historiques, and a minor basilica since 1950.
The town's inhabitants are known as Portois. In the past, the Portois were known as loudmouths; their neighbours across the Meurthe at Varangéville liked to gather on the opposite river bank to bombard them with a chorus indicating a wish to defecate in their mouths:
- Booyaî d'Senn 'Colais,
- Tend tet ghieule quand je...
which in the local Lorrain dialect means:
- Loudmouths of St Nicks,
- Open your gob when I'm taking a...[3]
St Nicholas-de-Port is also known for fossil remains of very early (late Triassic) ancestral mammals.
Population
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People
- André Joly (1706–1781?), court painter
See also
References
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ INSEE commune file
- ↑ Graham Robb, The Discovery of France, p37, Picador (2007), Template:ISBN, citing Vital Collet "Sobriquets caractérisant les habitants de villages lorrains" in Le Pays lorrain, Nancy (1908), pp442-449 and Henri-Adolphe Labourasse, "Anciens us, coutumes, légendes, supersititions, préjugés, etc. du département de la Meuse" in Mémoires de la Société des lettres, sciences et art de Bar-le-Duc, 1902, pp3-225
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