Charleville-Mézières is a commune of northern France, capital of the Ardennes department, Grand Est.
Charleville-Mézières is located on the banks of the river Meuse.
Place Ducale
Charleville in 1625
Panorama of Place Ducale, laid out in 1606
Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé, 1791
Ardennes is a department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France named after the broader Ardennes. Its prefecture is the town Charleville-Mézières. The department has 270,582 inhabitants. The inhabitants of the department are known as Ardennais or Ardennaises.
Prefecture building of the Ardennes department, in Charleville-Mézières
A typical landscape of Champagne chalk in the south of the department.
View of the Meuse valley in the north of the department at Givet.
Farm of Porcien in the south-west of the department.