One-time Residence of the Duc de Bar~ Missing Paris Day

Always when we travel to Paris,

we visit family in Bar le Duc,

a small town in the Meuse Departement of Lorraine

about 3 hours east of Paris. 

When I came to the Old Town section for the first time twenty years ago,

I took a similar photo of this window 

which was just as dressed up as you see it now

(though the valences portrayed the flowers of summer). 

I love the lavender wreath

and matching pots and boughs.

Many of the houses of the old town 

date back from the 15th to 17th centuries.

And on my last visit, I pointed and clicked 

at houses, doors and windows from all directions... 

...and traversed the many old walkways

that still resemble the days of the Dukes. 

(Photos copyright: Kirsten Steen)