Bar-le-Duc, formerly known as Bar, is a commune in the Meuse département, of which it is the capital. The department is in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Clock tower
Bar-le-Duc in 1617
Saint-Étienne Church and the court house (right) on Saint-Pierre Square in Bar-le-Duc
Notre-Dame Bridge over the Ornain
Meuse is a department in northeast France, named after the River Meuse. Meuse is part of the current region of Grand Est and is landlocked and borders by the French departments of Ardennes, Marne, Haute-Marne, Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Belgium to the north. Parts of Meuse belong to Parc naturel régional de Lorraine. It had a population of 184,083 in 2019. Front lines in trench warfare during World War I ran varying courses through the department and it hosted an important battle/offensive in 1916 in and around Verdun.
Prefecture building of the Meuse department, in Bar-le-Duc
Spring in Meuse
Bar-le-Duc
Le Transi de René de Chalon by Ligier Richier in Bar-le-Duc