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Title: Northern France : from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs : handbook for travellers
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Baedeker, Karl Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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The scenerynow becomes monotonous. 1351/2 M. Blesme-Haussign^mont (sinallBüffet) is tbe junction for Chaumont (Dijon; Bäle); see R. 4(). 143 M.Sermaize-les-Bains (Hot. de la Cloche; de la Source, at tbe Etab-lissement), on tbe Saulx, with a small Etablissement de Bains, /o M.from the Station, supplied by a mineral spring resembling tliat ofContrex^ville (p. 335). We next cross the Saulx, the Rhine and Marne Canal, and tbeOrnain, and reach (148 M.) Revigny. Branch-railway to (iV/^ M.) Sl. Dizier (p. 325); to Hirson, see p. 67.Local railways run also to the S.E., through the valley of the Saulx, to(16V-2 M.) Haironville, and to the N.E., to (21/2 M.) Triaucourl, via (14 M.)Lüle-en-ßarrois, whence a brauch divergcs to Rembercourt-aux-Pots (p. 108). 157/2 M. Bar-Ie-Duc. — Hotels. De Mktz et üv Commeuck (PI. b;B, 2), Boul. de la Rochelle 17; db la Gare (PI. a; C, 2), with cafe, opposite(he Station; DU CroNE (PI. c; B, 2), Boul. de la Rochelle 14, R. from 3, D. 3, nas! ™_^__-_^ _
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HfJW^MlJf CO to Nancy. BAR-LE-DUC. 16. Route. 107 pens. from 7 fr. — Cafes. Des Oiseaux, at the theatre (see below); Lambert, atthc Hotel de Metz; de la RocheUe, at the corner of the Rues de la Gare andde la Rochelle. Caba. Per drive 1 fr., per Uour 2 fr. (i.e. for 1-2 pers.; each addit.pers 25 c extra in the Ville Basse. 50 c. to the Ville Haute). Post & Telegraph Office (PI. 16; 1!, 2) Rue Voltaire 2. Bar-le-Duc, the ancient capital of the Dukes of Bar and the chieftown of the department of the Meuse, with 17,307 inhab., is situatedon the Ornain and the heights rising on its left hank. It wa8the birthplace of the second Duke of Guise (1519-63), MarshaiOudinot (17()7-1847), and Marshai Exelmans (1775-1852), Bar-le-Duc if notcd for its preserves, and it also produces good wine. In front of the railway-station is a War Monument for 1870-71(PL 12; 0, 1, 2). The busiest part of the town is the Ville Basse,which is intersected fromE.toW.by the Boulevard de la Koch eile, theprincipal

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