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Saint-Nicolas-de-Port is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle ''département'' in north-eastern France. The town's basilica, ''Saint Nicolas'' is a pilgrimage site, supposedly holding relics of Saint Nicholas brought from Italy. It is one of France's Monuments historiques, and a minor basilica since 1950. The town's inhabitants are known as''Portois''. In the past, the ''Portois'' were known as loudmouths; their neighbours across the Meurthe at Varangéville liked to gather on the opposite river bank to bombard them with a chorus indicating a wish to defecate in their mouths: :::''Booyaî d'Senn 'Colais,'' :::''Tend tet ghieule quand je...'' which in the local Lorrain dialect means: :::Loudmouths of St Nicks, :::Open your gob when I'm taking a...〔Graham Robb, ''The Discovery of France'', p37, Picador (2007), ISBN 978-0-330-42761-6, citing Vital Collet "Sobriquets caractérisant les habitants de villages lorrains" in ''Le Pays lorrain'', Nancy (1908), pp442-449 and Henri-Adolphe Labourasse, "Anciens us, coutumes, légendes, supersititions, préjugés, etc. du département de la Meuse" in ''Mémoires de la Société des lettres, sciences et art de Bar-le-Duc'', 1902, pp3-225〕 ==See also== *Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saint-Nicolas-de-Port」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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