Meuse: Verdun, the Ossuary, and Quiet River Towns
Meuse is defined by the Battle of Verdun. The 1916 battle, lasting ten months with over 700,000 casualties, took place across the hills north and east of the city. The Douaumont Ossuary contains the remains of approximately 130,000 unidentified soldiers. Verdun itself has a population of only about 17,000 but receives hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.
Bar-le-Duc, the prefecture, is known for its Renaissance old town and its redcurrant jam (confiture de groseilles), still made by hand with a goose quill to remove seeds. The department is sparsely populated with about 200,000 residents and continues to shrink. The Meuse river flows through from south to north. Commercy is famous for madeleines, the shell-shaped cakes immortalised by Proust.
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Meuse is defined by the Battle of Verdun. The 1916 battle, lasting ten months with over 700,000 casualties, took place across the hills north and east of the city. The Douaumont Ossuary contains the remains of approximately 130,000 unidentified soldiers. Verdun itself has a population of only about 17,000 but receives hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.
Bar-le-Duc, the prefecture, is known for its Renaissance old town and its redcurrant jam (confiture de groseilles), still made by hand with a goose quill to remove seeds. The department is sparsely populated with about 200,000 residents and continues to shrink. The Meuse river flows through from south to north. Commercy is famous for madeleines, the shell-shaped cakes immortalised by Proust.
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