The village of Montigny

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Montigny is located in the department of Meurthe et Moselle in Lorraine, 9 kilometers north of the capital of Canton Baccarat, the city's famous crystal. It is a small village with no fancy grouped around its massive church parts of which date from the fifteenth century. Nowadays, Montigny is populated by 130 inhabitants, whereas it had 290 at the beginning of the twentieth century. Today as yesterday, agriculture is the main source, but there remains only five farms with a total area of 611 hectares located at an average altitude of 280 meters.

The village is built near the banks of the Blette river, a small tributary of the Vezouze river, joining itself Meurthe river to Luneville city.

Moyenmoutier VII th century	We found traces of Merovingian graves in Montigny. This old Lorraine village is cited in the eleventh century, and the castle in 1422. After one of the area of the Abbey of Moyenmoutier, Montigny was then dependent on the lordship of Baccarat in the bailiwick of the bishopric of Metz.
	The characteristic of the village of Montigny was to be very clustered around its church dedicated to Saint Martin. War of 30 years (1618-1648) and the time had because of old buildings, now leaving the final empty. The village has also suffered in 1914-1918, earning him the "Croix de Guerre".
	As in all the villages, life has changed in a century Montigny ! In 1907 there were three innkeepers, one tobacconist, six quarry operators, one wheelwright, three dressmakers, two corkscrews, two marshals,one merchant fodder, two masons, one milliner, two hairdressers, one saddler.

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