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Huile sur toile
Dimensions : 20 cm x 27 cm
Meanders of the Meuse river
The Meuse (Dutch : Maas, Walloon : Mouse) is a European river 950 kilometers long including the basin, relatively narrow, is oriented south-north. She crosses France, Belgium and the Netherlands and empties into the North Sea. It originates from 409 meters above sea level at Pouilly-en-Bassigny.
The Meuse constituted one of the borders between the Holy Roman Empire and France in the Middle Ages and remained so in practice until the XVIIe century.
Par ailleurs, this river is considered to be the oldest river in the world. The fact that the Meuse crosses the Ardennes massif, formed during the Paleozoic, partly explains this interpretation.
The historian Marc Suttor considers that the river in the Middle Ages, from Sedan to Maastricht, compared in importance by traffic to the Seine and the Rhine, rivers that still allow the transport of goods to the three most important river ports in Europe, Paris, Duisburg and Liège.
The Meuse was the subject of a documentary, people of the river, made in 2012 by Xavier Istasse.
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