Country France Department Ardennes Elevation 100 m (300 ft) Municipality Tourcelles-Chaumont | Region Champagne-Ardenne Canton Machault Time zone CET (UTC+1) Arrondissement Vouziers | |
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Mazagran is a French village, part of the municipality (commune) of Tourcelles-Chaumont, in the department of Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne.
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History
The locality was named after a battle holed up in 1840 in the Algerian town of Mazagran; between Algerian resistance forces and French troops, during the French conquest of Algeria.
Geography
Situated in an agricultural plateau few km from Tourcelles-Chaumont and Leffincourt; it has a central roundabout that is a junction point of several national roads to Reims, Vouziers, Châlons-en-Champagne, Rethel and Charleville-Mézières. The proper village is composed by few and scattered farms.
Literature
The French writer André Dhôtel set his 1947 novel "Le Plateau de Mazagran" in the village.
References
Mazagran (Tourcelles-Chaumont) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA