Travel Guide Carignan

At the gates of Luxembourg, Carignan, the ancient Yvois, has historical riches. The town acquired the Noblesse under the Mérovingiens. At that time, we were hitting here, one third of gold. In the 1559 th century, it was adorned with bastion fortifications, partially dismantled after to finally be rebuilt. After further attacks at the end of the century - new and new rendition - the inhabitants, weary of these repeated destruction, are paying for new walls in the early th century, in the defensive style of the time. Taken twice by Châtillon marshal during the Thirty Years War, it was almost entirely razed in 1639. Twenty years later, the Treaty of the Pyrenees gave it to the King of France, who gave him to Eugène-Maurice de Savoie, prince of Carignan-en-Piedmont, for which she was built in 1662. She then took the name Carignan and became the head of a powwow who reported directly to the parliament of Metz. Thanks to its industries, the city underwent a certain expansion in the th century. Napoleon III stopped there a few hours, on 30 August 1870, before winning Sedan.