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Baronville
Baronville
is a
commune
in the
Moselle department
in
Grand Est
in
northeastern
France
.
History
Previous names:
Barunvilla
,
Barandorf
,
Barendorff
.
In
2007
a group of three
University of York
students
attempted
to
get
the
fictitious
town
of 'BaronVille'
onto
the new
UK
version
of the
board game
Monopoly
. The
news media
thought that this was a
French
plot
and
reported
, without
sources
, that
the people
of Baronville itself were
behind
it.
Population