Coussey

Coussey is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.

Coussey
Commune
The road into Coussey
Coat of arms
Location of Coussey
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Coordinates: 48°24′33″N 5°41′00″E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Vosges
Arrondissement	Neufchâteau
Canton	Neufchâteau
Intercommunality	CC l'Ouest Vosgien
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Bernard Adam
Area ^1	16.02 km^2 (6.19 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	723
• Density	45/km^2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	88118 /88630
Elevation	267–422 m (876–1,385 ft) (avg. 284 m or 932 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Sights

The twelfth-century church of Notre Dame (Our Lady) has a romanesque exterior while the interior is primarily in the Gothic style. Coussey the origins of the Coussey family.

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Personalities

• The humorist and actor Didier Gustin grew up at Coussey.
• Pierre Grappin, the creator of a well-known French-German dictionary and the faculty Dean at Nanterre who hit the headlines when he closed down his faculty as part of an escalation of the "événements" involving students during 1968, was born at Coussey on 31 May 1915.
• Sir James Henley Coussey, who chaired the Coussey Constitutional Committee set up in December 1949 to draw up a new Constitution for the Gold Coast.

See also

• Communes of the Vosges department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.