Every morning, Nicolas Turon pays tribute to his department with a funny, tender and knowing text, in the form of a declaration of love for the Moselle. He chooses an emblem belonging to history or current events and treats it in an offbeat way.
He signs his name with a W which means Weber… But what is the hidden meaning of the fourth most common surname in Moselle?!
Unsurprisingly, Weber joins the list of surnames linked to a profession and derived from German… The opportunity for us to revise a bit: Muller is the miller, Becker, the baker, Schmitt the blacksmith… As for Weber, he exercised a profession as necessary to the medieval clan as wheat, bread or the plowshare… A profession without which the world would only be a gigantic naturist camp, located somewhere between the Garden of Eden and the “Labyrinth”, the libertine club de Marly in which we exchange ideas and partners… it is a loom… to weave! In German, “weben” means “to weave” and “Weber” is “weaver”. The Webers are related to the Schneiders, tailors, often Ashkenazi Jews.
It is impossible to find precisely when the establishment of this name in history dates back; In any case, we are not going to play whoever weaves the furthest.
Blase declines as it spreads; we find Wevers in Belgium and the Netherlands, and Werbers, including a French ant breeder and a famous American, Ray Werber, who invented light…
