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According to old mountain-dwellers, the source of the Fave was worshipped at
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Moselle basin by a wide margin. In fact the Moselle's runoff at
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The river shares its name with the village of Fave, which spread over the middle of the valley well before the 12th century. Having become a hamlet after the 16th century, it was left only a ruin after the
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meaning to dig, gully or laugh, which gave rise to the
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