VIEW OF BAR FROM THE CLOCK TOWER
After going round the esplanade, return to the Rue du Baile and follow it towards Old Bar. Take, on the right of the Place-de-la Fontaine, Rue des Ducs de Bar, which has preserved some quaint sixteenth and seventeenth century houses. Turn to the left in this street in order to enter Place Saint-Pierre, at the extremity of which stands the church of this name, classed as an historical monument.
The Place has retained its old world aspect. Sixteenth and seventeenth century houses, of which the most beautiful, No. 21, is a museum, form a fitting frame to the old church.
BAR SEEN FROM THE ESPLANADE
The museum is open to the public on Sundays, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and at any time to strangers to the town (gratuity).
It contains collections of painting, sculpture, and natural history.
Saint-Pierre is the oldest church in Bar-le-Duc.
It was begun in the fourteenth century; the front, reproduced on p. [245], dates from the sixteenth century, with the exception of the quadrangular cupola surmounted by a lantern, which crowns the tower.