At the left-hand corner of the Place take the Rue de la Vaux. On the right of the street is the 17th century Hôtel-de-Ville, at the corner of the Rue Porte-à-Metz. On the left of the Rue Porte-à-Metz, stairs lead to the public garden called “La Promenade des Capucins,” which overlooks the town and the valley of the Meuse (fine panorama).
MONUMENT IN GERMAN CEMETERY (See below)
If the tourist enters St. Mihiel by the Rue Porte-à-Metz, he will see a large cemetery containing more than two thousand granite monuments, opposite the first houses of the town. Over six thousand Germans were buried there, killed for the most part during 1915, and a few in 1916.
No Frenchman, soldier or civilian, has been buried in this cemetery.
The cemetery can also be reached by returning along the Rue Porte-à-Metz as far as the last houses.