Belvedere path
of frank limestone

Community of Municipalities of the Pompey Basin

CUSTINES, formerly Condé. In Celtic times, Condé or Condatum meant confluence. It only appears for our town in the 12th century, after many transformations, before taking the form of CUSTINE and then CUSTINES around 1825. The current coat of arms is that which appeared in 1389 on the seal of the provostship of Condé, preserved in the French Archives: "Argent, a castle sable, accompanied on the dexter and sinister sides by a scythe azure, in chief an antique C gules, and in the center an escutcheon azure with two addorsed bars or, flanked by two scythes argent palewise." The small village of Condé has origins predating our era, as evidenced by flint and quartz flakes, as well as a fragment of a polished stone axe, discovered near the castle. After the conquest of Gaul by the legions of Rome, the "Pax Romana", the great invasions, the Merovingian era, the wars between the Dukes of Lorraine, the Counts of Bar and the Bishopric of Metz, Condé became Custines.