1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Mézières |←Mézières, Philippe
de||1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 18 |See also
Charleville-Mézières on Wikipedia, and our 1911 Encyclopædia
Britannica disclaimer.| MÉZIÈRES, a town of northern France,
capital of the department of Ardennes, 55 m. N.E. of Reims by
the Eastern railway. Pop. (1906), town, 7007; commune, 9393. The
town itself, the streets of which are narrow and irregular, is
situated on the neck of a peninsula formed by a loop of the
Meuse. The river separates it from its suburb of Arches and the
town of Charleville on the north and from the suburb of Pierre
on the south. Adjoining Pierre is Mohon (pop. 5874), with
metallurgical works. The fortifications of Mézières, as well as
the citadel still dominating the town on the east, were built
under Vauban's direction, but were dismantled in 1885 and 1886.
Immediately to the east of the citadel runs a canal, which
provides river-traffic with a short cut across the isthmus. The
parish church (16th cent.) contains inscr