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A Few Kilometers From Verdun Has Survived Since 1916 a Village of Zero Inhabitants Whose City Council Still Meets

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When you go through the maps of France in search of the smallest communes in the country, you sometimes find an anomaly that disconcertes: officially registered villages, with a mayor and a council, but whose population has a dizzying figure of zero. These are not administrative errors or residuals [...] More
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When you go through the maps of France in search of the smallest communes in the country, you sometimes find an anomaly that disconcertes: officially registered villages, with a mayor and a council, but whose population has a dizzying figure of zero. These are not administrative errors or residuals [...] More

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SciencePost broke the news on Thursday, August 13, 2026.
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