Meuse meanders
The river bends back on itself repeatedly through the city and nearly encircles Mézières. It gives the print a strong, looping line that ties the districts together.
Tabula geographica minimalis · France
49.7685° N / 4.7249° E
Two historic towns joined by the looping Meuse, one ordered around a ducal square, the other held within a meander

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Charleville-Mézières is the result of a 1966 merger, and the map still shows two distinct centres. Mézières, the older fortified town, sits almost entirely inside a tight meander of the Meuse. Just to the north, Charleville was laid out from 1606 by Charles de Gonzague as a planned town, with streets arranged in a strict grid around a single grand square. The river winds between and around both.
The Place Ducale, at the heart of Charleville, is a large arcaded square with uniform brick and stone facades, often compared to the Place des Vosges in Paris. On the map it forms a crisp rectangle from which the grid extends evenly. Mézières has a more irregular medieval street plan, with traces of ramparts along its river edges.
The poet Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville, and the town hosts a major international puppetry festival that has made it a reference point for the art form. A Charleville-Mézières map poster brings the whole composition together. It shows the planned town, the fortified town and the river that loops between them in a series of pronounced meanders.
The river bends back on itself repeatedly through the city and nearly encircles Mézières. It gives the print a strong, looping line that ties the districts together.
Built in the early seventeenth century, Charleville's central square appears as a sharp rectangle at the centre of a regular grid, the clearest trace of the original town plan.
Enclosed by the river, the older town keeps an irregular street pattern and remains of its fortifications, in contrast with the geometric order of its northern neighbour.
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Cur Charleville-Mézières
This map appeals to anyone attached to the Ardennes, to readers of Rimbaud, and to puppeteers who have come for the festival. Its mix of a planned grid and a winding river makes it one of the more graphic town plans in France, attractive even to people who have never visited.
Put your own words in the title and subtitle, perhaps the name of a quarter or a year, and set the coordinates line. Choose from five styles, including Blueprint, which suits the geometry of the plan. Print-ready PDF and PNG files in six sizes cost $9.
Eme tabulam Charleville-Mézières| Magnitudo impressionis | Resolutio | Fasciculi |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
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