Oh... I think you had a very good guess FlyRetired...
Yes, Montsec is 14 Km W of St-Mihiel, and coordinates are:
05°43'14"E
48°53'23"N
BTW, for searching French locations, an easy way is to use the
GeoPortailIt's a "Google Earth Like" site, limited to French territory, but who has access to the full toponym database for the search (the 1.7 Millions toponym I was talking about).
Another plus is that you can display the French aerial photographs and the 1:25k scale map on the same screen with transapancy effects.
It's in French, but I think the few tools are quite easy to use for anybody.
There's an example of the output you can have (with map on 50% transparancy and aerial photographs behind)
