Merveille

This name derives from the pre-9th-century Old French locational surname “Merveille and Merveilleux,” from the Latin “mīrābĭlia,” meaning “miracles,” from “Mīrābĭlis,” meaning “wonderful, marvelous, astonishing, extraordinary, glorious, miraculous,” from “mīrari/mīro,” meaning “to look at,” from “mīrus,” meaning “wonderful, amazing, surprising, strange, singular.” Merveilleux (merveille +‎ -eux) is the new names for the extravagantly dressed French fops and ‘fine ladies’ of the period of the Directory, who affected a revival of the classic costume of ancient Greece. The Vallée des Merveilles (English: Valley of Marvels) is a part of the Mercantour National Park in southern France. It holds the most considerable quantity of open-air Bronze Age petroglyphs in Europe, after Val Camonica in Italy, and is given a special note for the area’s inclusion for the European Diploma of Protected Areas