Summer can be hot in North Moselle. And that is not new. At the beginning of the ninthe century already, the beautiful season was sometimes trying. The region appealed a lot to Charlemagne for this reason, but also because it was rich in game. The emperor, who sometimes stayed in Thionville, which is still called “la Carolingienne”, liked to hunt in the forest of Saint-Hubert, to the east of Metz.
The activity is not then a matter of small nature: a whole troop follows the noble hunters on horseback and the warriors of the retinue; servants, dogs, it is a merry barnum. But it is also a very serious thing, to the point that the pain of men and animals comes after the necessities of the hunt. Beyond all reason…
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