In the 16C, Rue du Bourg was one of the most elegant of Bar-le-Duc, which is echoed by the rich façades at nos 42, 46, 49 and 51. At no 26, the façade of the Maison des Deux-Barbeaux (1618) sports the busts of ladies and mermaids. On the corner of Rue Maginot stands a strange monument, reminiscent of Brussels' Mannekenpis, representing a child with a bicycle; it is a tribute to two local men, Pierre and Ernest Michaux, who invented the velocipede in 1861.