SEDAN, DRAPERY CITY

The demographic, economic and cultural development of Sedan was mainly the work of the Protestant Protestants in this «Little Geneva» following conversion to the calvinism - 1562 - the princely couple, Henri-Robert de La Marck and Françoise de Bouillon. His regime of religious tolerance fostered extraordinary development in the metallurgy as in draperie during the th and th centuries. Very enterprising manufacturers of manufacturers made Sedan a top-notch wool place where there still remains an exceptional architectural heritage, the most beautiful example of which is the manufacture of Dijonval, created in 1646. This vitality will allow him to withstand the revolution's great upheavals, the wars of the Empire and the political crises of the th century. Only the great Franco-German conflict, from 1870 to 1945, will have severely shaken its prosperity.