Association of Joan Country communes
The Association of Joan (of Arc) Country communes (French: Communauté de communes du Pays de Jeanne) is a French administrative association of communes in the Vosges département of eastern France and in the region of Lorraine.
The grouping is named after Joan of Arc, who was born at Domrémy-la-Pucelle around 1412, and who has been an iconic figure in France ever since her popular rediscovery as part of the surge in nationalism that France, along with the most of the rest of Europe, experienced during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Created in 1998, the association has its administrative offices at Coussey .
Member communes
The association comprises 10 member communes as follows:
- Autigny-la-Tour
- Avranville
- Chermisey
- Coussey
- Domrémy-la-Pucelle
- Frebécourt
- Midrevaux
- Seraumont
- Sionne
- Soulosse-sous-Saint-Élophe
Sources and further reading
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article in the French Wikipedia, consulted during March 2009.
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