Verdun

At the Battle of Verdun, French forces stopped a German attack.

Verdun had withstood a siege of ten weeks.

In accordance with the Treaty of Verdun, in 1843 the Carolingian Empire was divided between Charlemagne's three grandchildren.

The Treaty of Verdun divided Charlemagne's empire in three.

The Verdun Memorial is a museum.

It was little more than daylight when we took the road again, with a thirty-mile drive to Verdun before us.