Discover here all that Monsieur de France tells or presents in relation with Lorraine. Discover our destinations, our recipes, our stories of Lorraine. Detours to live in Nancy, Metz, Epinal, the Vosges, Moselle, Meurthe-et-Moselle or Meuse. The region of mirabelle plums and Saint Nicolas
Monsieur de France gives you, each time, the name of the historical region, and the name of the administrative region.
Clémentine Delait became very famous as the bearded lady. This fame was born of a bet made with one of the customers of the small café she ran in the Vosges.
He gave his name to the most beautiful square in the world: Place Stanislas in Nancy. It has to be said that we owe this magnificent square to this astonishing man. Twice dethroned King of Poland, Duke of Lorraine, father-in-law of King Louis XV of France... A bit of an adventurer, a gourmand, a builder and a generous man, he lived an astonishing life that's well worth knowing. Meet the destiny of Stanislas Leszczynski
Made in France
Lorraine / Grand Est region
In Terra : Lorraine flowers for my garden
Jérôme Prod'homme
IN TERRA is the company founded by Thomas ZIX, a gardening enthusiast from Lorraine, who came up with the idea of offering attractive boxes containing seeds of flowers that grow well in Lorraine and elsewhere, and that can be resown year after year for a natural garden.
This is typically one of the dishes that our grandmothers used to make easily in the old days in the countryside, and that we've kind of forgotten about. It's a shame, because it's delicious, easy to make and inexpensive. Discover the recipe for easy potato shreds
Everything is gourmet in Lorraine, even the crêpes! These famous "vautes" or "votes" are, in fact, very thick crêpes that can be eaten as a spread or even, given their thickness, eaten with fruit. There's nothing to it and it's just delicious.
If it's called a "salad", it's because there's salad in the ingredients, and vinaigrette. But as for the rest, there's nothing more gourmet than a Vosgian salad, since it's bound to include lardons, potatoes and lots of other heavy stuff. All the same, you can tell your doctor that you've eaten salad. He doesn't have to know what was in it, does he?
Every year, on 6 December, Saint Nicholas is celebrated in some French regions. This is particularly the case in Lorraine. What are the traditions of Saint Nicholas? Who was Saint Nicolas? Who are the butcher and the bogeyman? And why is Saint Nicholas celebrated in Lorraine every year? Discover his story with Monsieur de France
Although the tradition of decorating a Christmas tree in France comes from Alsace, it seems that the baubles that decorate them are a Lorraine invention. The story of this invention is told here.
When you fly over Toul, you get the impression that the Moselle River doesn't want to leave the area, looping around the old town before heading off again. Toul is a city with an extremely rich history, surrounded by ramparts that have seen history flood in, and whose treasure is the magnificent Saint Etienne cathedral. It's a city rich in architecture, but also in the art of living, with just the right amount of walking and in the heart of the "Côtes de Toul", where vines flourish before producing delicious wines.
So French
Lorraine / Grand Est region
It is in France that America was given its name
Jérôme Prod'homme
We all know the story of Christopher Columbus who discovered America. In fact, far from thinking that he had discovered a new continent, the navigator was convinced that he had discovered a new route to India. It is much later, in France, by compiling what they knew of the discoveries of Christopher Columbus and a certain Amerigo Vespucci, that scientists from Lorraine deduced that Christopher Columbus had discovered a 4th continent and it was necessary to name it... Monsieur de France tells you this story.
