This town is famous for its celebrated red-currant jam; the pips of the fruit being removed one by one before cooking. Also "Vin gris." THE LOWER TOWN Notre-Dame Bridge This was first built of wood, then towards the middle of the fourteenth century, of stone. The Chapel to the Virgin on one of the piles has been in existence since the seventeenth century. It escaped destruction in the troubled times of the Revolution in consequence, it is said, of the prudent substitution of the busts of Marat and Robespierre for the statue of the Virgin. There is a pretty view of the Ornain from the bridge; but in order to see the bridge itself in its most picturesque aspect, take a few steps along the edge of the south bank, whence the photo below was taken. Notre-Dame This church may be seen from the bridge. Parts of it date from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, whilst one front and one tower belong to the eighteenth. The bas-relief of the façade representing the Assumption belongs to 1750. In the interior, in the right branch of the transept, is an interesting fifteenth century bas-relief representing the Virgin and symbolic figures. [Illustration: NOTRE-DAME BRIDGE (_Photo L. L._)] THE UPPER TOWN [Illustration: PLACE REGGIO AND THE UPPER TOWN] The upper town is the most interesting part of Bar-le-Duc. The two photographs on this page show it as it appears from the lower town. Motors can reach it easily _by following the Boulevard de la Rochelle, then taking, on the right, the Rue Lapique, which passes before the town-hall and leads to the Avenue du Château_. _At the top of this avenue after passing, on the left, the Romanesque entrance to the old ducal castle_ (reached by about twenty steps) _by turning to the right one can follow on foot the Rue Gilles-de-Trèves for about one hundred yards, as far as_ the ancient college of the same name, which is classed as an historical monument. It has an interesting Renaissance front looking on to the courtyard. _Return to the Avenue du Château, which is continued on the left by the Rue du Baile._ It is from there that the photographs on p. 242 were taken, the one looking towards the lower town, along the castle walls, the other towards Old Bar. At the end of the Rue du Baile, on the left is the Clock Tower shown in the photograph on p. 243. [Illustration: RUE ROUSSEAU AND THE UPPER TOWN]