Étain

Étain lies in the Woëvre plain east of Verdun. Its medieval walls enclosed a town with four gates, a church dedicated to Saint Martin and a market that drew cloth merchants to an important fair in 1409. The defences were strengthened in 1629, but the town was ravaged in 1635 during the wars of the seventeenth century. Étain was also the seat of a provost and later a bailiwick.