At the limits of the bishopric of Toul, the lands of the dukes of Lorraine and that of the bishop of Metz, crossroads between two valleys channeling the North-South and East-West passages, Frouard knew a particularly turbulent medieval history. The thirty-year war was thus marked by the destruction of the old castle by the troops of Richelieu, ordered, as for all the castles of the surroundings, by Louis XIII who saw in these fortresses a factor of instability of the kingdom. The following periods were less agitated. During the war of 1870, a corps of Francs Tireur was formed at Frouard. The First World War put Frouard a few tens of kilometers from the front, near Pont-à-Mousson, which earned him to be the target of the German heavy artillery with long range. The Second World War was marked in 1940 by a German aerial bombardment on the railway. From the economic point of view, Frouard remained a rural commune for a long time until the installation in 1857 of the first steel plant in th

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