Euville French limestone

This slightly harder limestone with a fine-grained, dense structure can be ground very finely. The glittering lime crystals on the quarry faces are characteristic.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

PROCESSING

Euville can be worked very well by hand with all types of forged steel chisels, with claw chisels, flat chisels or lettering chisels as well as with point chisels for shaping and for larger material removal. Rasps and files can also be used for processing. Euville can be sanded very finely, resulting in very smooth surfaces.

Sculptures made of Euville can be placed both indoors and outdoors. The limestone is frost-resistant.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Euville is a trochitic limestone that belongs to the shell limestones. Euville was formed in the Oxfordian period of the Upper Jurassic and is therefore slightly younger than Tervoux. Due to its composition, the stone is equally suitable for construction and sculpture.

Limestone quarrying in the quarries of Euville in the Meuse department, around 50 kilometres from Nancy, dates back to the 16th century and reached its peak in the second half of the 19th century. Thanks to ever-improving transport options, the limestone from Euville was exported all over Europe and across the Atlantic. Most of the large buildings erected in Paris since Napoleon III are made of Euville. The limestone was also often used for the construction of large infrastructures. At the beginning of the 20th century, despite the incipient decline in production due to growing competition from concrete, there were still 1,500 quarries employing workers from all over Europe. Only one quarry is now still in operation. Euville is extracted in open-cast mining.

Stone is a natural product. We endeavour to reproduce the appearance of our sculptured stones as accurately as possible in the illustrations so that the character of the stone can be recognised. Ultimately, each stone is a unique piece and the appearance may differ accordingly from the illustration.