The Citadel Gate

In the seventeenth century, these trenches were loaded with water from the Boudonville Stream amid the French occupation. Be that as it may, a protective entryway should have been beautified with the style and taste of the time. In the first place take a gander at the outside of the door which once disregarded the wide open, and you will watch how, in 1598, engineer Drouin le Jeune composed the Citadel Gate in a Renaissance style, unmistakable by the broken pediment improved with arms trophies.

The two allegoric statues allude to the Dukes' ideals possibly Equity and Temperance. These are not duplicates but rather firsts! With respect to the first ensign of the Duke between the statues, they vanished at the Revolution, as did the statue of the Virgin between the two casings of the door's pediment. In 1863, stone carver Viard reestablished the entryway and settled a statue of Duke Charles III or is it Jean de Salm where the Virgin used to stand.