Mirecourt

Mirecourt is a town of crafts and markets in the Vosges country. Among its most distinctive trades was the making of stringed instruments, recorded here in the seventeenth century. The town recovered after war and plague, and in 1698 its makers received an order from the court of Lorraine. In 1732 Duchess Élisabeth Charlotte granted the violin makers a charter setting out the rules of their corporation.