High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint-Maur-des-Fosses is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 11.7 km. (7.3 miles) from the center of Paris.Saint-Maur-des-Fosses owes its name to an abbey founded in 638 by Queen Nanthild, regent for her son Clovis II, at a place called Fossati in Medieval Latin, Les Fosses in modern French, meaning "the moats". This place, located at the narrow entrance of a loop where the Marne River made its way round a rocky outcrop, was probably named after the moats of an ancient Celtic oppidum and later a Roman castrum; the site was known in medieval documents as Castrum Bagaudarum, at a time when the marauding Bagaudae had developed a legendary reputation as defenders of Christians again Roman persecution.

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