cartel Comptoir Métallurgique de Longwy. After the Battle of the Ardennes in August 1914, Longwy was occupied by the Imperial German army until the 1918 Armistice. At the start of the war the fort at Longwy was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Natalis Constant Darche. With a force of 3,500 men he was able to hold up the German 5th Army for three weeks. Population People Count Claude Florimond de Mercy (1666–1734), Holy Roman Empire Field Marshal François Dominique Séraphin (1747–1800), French puppeteer Jean-Baptiste Fresez (1800–1867), Luxembourgish painter Paul Delisse (1817–1888), French trombonist Geneviève de Fontenay (born 1932), French businesswoman References External links Town council website Communes of Meurthe-et-Moselle Vauban fortifications in France Three Bishoprics