Saint-Juvin

Saint- Juvin is a Northeast commune in the Champagne- Ardenne region.

The municipality in the department of Ardennes, in the canton in the Arrondissement Grandpré Vouziers and has 113 inhabitants (1 January 2011).

Battles of Saint- Juvin

In September 1792, the French revolutionary army under Dumouriez was by the Prussians and Austrians under the command of the Duke of Brunswick until driven back behind Verdun ( this defeat sparked the so-called Paris in September killings ) and finally found at Saint- Juvin. There were several days of skirmishes. However, the royalists missed the opportunity to attack, and Dumuriez succeeded in a masterly retreat movement to settle on the night of September 14, with all its troops to the west and to entrench themselves far from Sainte- Menehould. There, ended a week later cannonade of Valmy all offensive efforts of the ancien regime Paris for Louis XVI. recapture.