Dispatch from Metz

Building panel, Saint-Julien-les-Metz

The archives of the Department of the Moselle surmount the village of Saint-Julien-lès-Metz , just north of Metz, across the river Seille. B...

It turns out that a "wad" was a place the river, in this case the Seille, could be forded. The word "wad" actually has t...

The city walls torn down in the late 19th Century to be replaced by boulevards were not the first set of walls to disappear. As the Roman ci...

Not far from some large modern buildings, we stumbled across the Place des Charrons, one of the human-scale places in Metz. At the place...