Montceau les Mines

Montceau les Mines is a commune within the Saone ET Loire branch within the area of Bourgogne in eastern France. It is the second-largest commune of the metropolitan Comminute urbane Creosote Montceau, which lies southwest of the metropolis of Dijon. Montceau-les-Mines are a former mining city. Coal changed into located within the area within the sixteenth Century. A hamlet called Le Montceau" advanced from this discovery. Le Montceau commenced to grow after the constructing of the Canal du Centre, built among 1783 and 1791. A enterprise entity,Compagnie des mines began to extract coals in 1833.

The commune became formally hooked up June 24, 1856. As Montceau les Mines, a network of 1300 population, drawn from a territory formed from the villages of Blamey, Saint Valier, Saint-Brain souse Savings, and Savings les Mines. A graveyard and a church were built by means of the important coal enterprise, a signal of paternalism of mining industry. Intense social movements occurred on the stop of the nineteenth century and there at the beginning of the twentieth century.