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Saint-Dié-des-Vosges is a French commune, capital of the Deodatie
and arrondissement of the Vosges department. Located in the
historical and cultural region of Lorraine, the town is now part of
the Grand Est administrative region.
Its inhabitants are
called the Deodatians.
The capital of a Merovingian ban at a
remarkable bend in the Meurthe valley, the town of
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges has continued with prestigious Christian
monasteries and sanctuaries, welcoming pilgrims and the sick. If in
the twelfth century, the Saint-Dié church, erected as a chapter and
its canons tried to found a city around their collegiate church and
began to surround it with walls and towers, it was in the following
century that the lower town lorraine was truly born from an
association between the Duke of Lorraine and the collegiate church.
It is in Saint-Dié, within the Vosges gymnasium, that the
Planisphere of Waldseemüller was published in 1507 which contains
the first mention of the word "America" , name given in honor of
the explorer Amerigo. Vespucci, on a card titled “Universalis
Cosmographia”. This is how the city still honors the title of
Godmother of America.
After the fire of July 27, 1757 in the
city center, the main street was rebuilt under Stanislas, Duke of
Lorraine for life. A rectilinear French town planning promotes
arteries and bridges3, thus the rue Stanislas, the rue des
Trois-Villes, the Grand Pont. The city is developing with the road
of the French authorities. Center of subdelegation, it brings
together forestry administrations, justice and especially bishopric
erected in 1777.
The town experienced an industrial
boom between 1830 and 1890. It is known for its clearance sale at
the end of September, heir to its autumn fairs. The International
Geography Festival was founded in 1989 by a private association,
chaired by the mayor. The aim is to celebrate the discipline of
"geography" at the beginning of October with exhibitions,
conferences, events and recognition prizes, in particular the
Vautrin-Lud prize crowning a career as a researcher and rankings for
participation in the exhibition of scientific posters.
The
city takes its name from the Christian saint Dié, founder of ban and
chorevishop monk of the Colombanian rite (of Saint Colomban, Irish
monk), called in Latin Deodatus, in French Déodat or Dieudonné,
abbreviated by custom in Dié. The Latin base persists in the
gentile. Long called Saint-Dié, the town officially took its current
name of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, sometimes abbreviated by the acronym
SDDV, as of December 29, 1999. The former name, shorter, is
sometimes still used . We can also trace the name of the toponym of
Saint-Dié with the Vosges, to the oldest charter of Charlemagne,
drawn up in Aix-la-Chapelle, January 13, 769, where the toponym of
Saint-Dié in Latin is followed of the infra Vosago silva mention.