_At the left-hand corner of the Place take the Rue de la Vaux. On the right of the street is the_ =17th century Hôtel-de-Ville=, _at the corner of the Rue Porte-à-Metz. On the left of the Rue Porte-à-Metz, stairs lead to the_ public garden called “La Promenade des Capucins,” which overlooks the town and the valley of the Meuse (_fine panorama_). [Illustration: MONUMENT IN GERMAN CEMETERY (_See below_)] _If the tourist enters St. Mihiel by the Rue Porte-à-Metz, he will see_ a large cemetery containing more than two thousand granite monuments, opposite the first houses of the town. Over six thousand Germans were buried there, killed for the most part during 1915, and a few in 1916. No Frenchman, soldier or civilian, has been buried in this cemetery. _The cemetery can also be reached by returning along the Rue Porte-à-Metz as far as the last houses._ [Illustration: GERMAN CEMETERY AT THE PORTE-À-METZ ENTRANCE TO ST. MIHIEL (_see above_)] [Illustration: THE “MAISON AUX BOEUFS” (_No. 3, Rue de la Vaux._)] _Return to the Rue de la Vaux, which take on the right._ _At No. 3, on the right, is an_ old Renaissance house with curious gargoyles; _and at No. 2, opposite_, a curious old house. _At the beginning of Rue Carnot, which is a continuation of Rue de la Vaux, see the_ 16th century house called “Du Narrateur,” _at No. 36_. _Opposite this house, take the terraced Rue du Général Blaise_ (old house at No. 30). _Follow its continuation (Rue Haute des Fossés), at No. 7 of which is_ Ligier Richier’s house. _Take the Rue des Annonciades as far as the Avenue des Roches, which leads to the_ “Seven Rocks,” situated at the gates of the town (_see p. 62_). [Illustration: RENAISSANCE HOUSE (_No. 36, Rue Carnot._)] The Seven Rocks On the edge of the Verdun road, which is an extension of the Avenue des Roches, and overhanging the Meuse just beyond the town, rise seven rocks, known as the “Cliffs of St. Mihiel.” In the first, surmounted by a stone cross, a grotto has been hollowed out containing a tomb in which lies a great stone Christ. A staircase in the rock gives easy access to it. This calvary is a place of pilgrimage on Good Friday. The sixth rock, worn away by water, resembles a gigantic mushroom and is called the “Devil’s Table.” These rocks are represented in the St. Mihiel coat of arms, which is: “Three rocks argent on an azure field, two in chief and one in pile.” [Illustration: THE COAT OF ARMS OF ST. MIHIEL _Three rocks argent on an azure field, two in chief, and one in pile._] Across the intervening wooded slopes are seen the large buildings of the old Benedictine Abbey of St. Michel, of which the name St. Mihiel is a corruption. Founded in 709 on a site known to-day as St. Christopher’s Farm, in Vieux-Moutier Wood, it was transferred in 819 to the village of Godinécourt, which then took the name of St. Michel or St. Mihiel. It was closed in 1791. A romanesque tower, dating from about 1060, dominates the abbey.