The sunset over the town rooftops on Monday 10th August...
From Sunday 16th August - when we sat by the River Meuse at Doulcon, looking across the water to the Dun-sur-Meuse side...
This afternoon, Friday, 28th August I took a short walk in the town and concentrated my camera on plaques and places (squares)...and the town's honoured people.
A turning off the other side of Rue Carnot...
There is no longer a chateau but we understand that two of the stone fireplaces in our house came from there when it was demolished. Our house in built of stone and we think that probably came from the ramparts after they were demolished in the mid-1700s.
Back to the centre, by the Mairie...
...which joins the next place, in the middle of centre ville...
...which houses the Salles des Fetes built on the site of the old covered market...
...and opposite the hall, the birth-place of the town's famous painter, Jules Bastien Lepage - although not the house itself which was destroyed in WW11,
In the middle of the square, a small roundabout hosts a statue to the man for which the square is named...
The building, with the town clock, is the front facade of the junior school, which, in WW1 was used as a hospital by the German army who occupied the town.
On the left side of the square, a plaque commemorates another famous son, General Loison.
It is interesting to note that both soldiers, born in Damvillers, were contemporaries.
Further information here: https://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.tourisme-damvillers.com/terre-d-art-et-d-histoire&prev=search
It looks a fascinating place, as so many are when you begin to delve into their history. The details about your fireplaces and the stone of the house are particularly interesting. Your photographs make the place and people very vivid.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Alison. I'm pleased I was able to bring the town and details alive for you. Yes, it's good to delve into the history of old places - never know what you are going to uncover!
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