Arcis-sur-Aube

The D677 also comes from Mailly-le-Camp in the north intersecting the D441 in the town and continuing south to Voué.

[4] Azure, 6 roundels Argent posed 3-2-1, in chief Or, bordure in Gules.

List of Successive Mayors[6] Arcis-sur-Aube has twinning associations with:[7] The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arcisiens or Arcisiennes in French.

[8] Besides many big farms producing all sorts of cereals, the sugar industry has a big plant there: Cristal Union The commune has a number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments: The Church of Saint-Étienne (16th century) is registered as an historical monument.

[16] The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects: Honoré de Balzac made Arcis-sur-Aube part of his novel Le Député d'Arcis (The Member for Arcis), left unfinished at his death and completed by Charles Rabbou.

In this small painting commissioned by the subject's nephew, Prince Napoleon, the emperor is portrayed in a forbidding landscape just after his last, hard-won victory in the 1814 French campaign that was fought at Arcis-sur-Aube: 23,000 French troops withstood the onslaught of 90,000 Austrians, but were unable to capitalize on their victory.
Arms of Arcis-sur-Aube
Arms of Arcis-sur-Aube
The Church of Saint-Étienne in 2007.
The statue of Danton in 2007