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Picardy (English: /ˈpɪkdi/; Picard and French: Picardie, French: [pikaʁdi], ) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region of Hauts-de-France. It is located in the northern part of France. History The historical province of Picardy stretched from north of Noyon to Calais via the whole of the Somme department and the north of the Aisne department. The province of Artois (Arras area) separated Picardy from French …

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Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Fort de Malmaison (France 2015)
Deutscher Soldatenfriedh…
Prémontré Abbey was the mother house of the Premonstratensian Order and was located at Prémontré about twelve miles west of Laon, département of Aisne, France. History It was founded by Saint Norbert of Xanten in 1120 on waste land that had previously belonged to the Abbey of St. Vincent, Laon, to which it had been given by a former Bishop of Laon; the monks of St. Vincent's had tried in vain to cultivate it. As shown in the charter of donation the place was called "Præmonstratus", or "pratum mo…
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Carte postale
Carte postale
The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial (French: [waz ɛːn]) is an American military cemetery in northern France. Plots A through D contains the graves of 6,012 American soldiers who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I, 597 of which were not identified, as well as a monument for 241 Americans who were missing in action during battles in the same area and whose remains were never recovered. Included among the soldiers here who lost their lives is poet Joyce Kilmer (1886–1…
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Boves: Réserve Naturelle de l'Étang de Saint-Ladre
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Amiens – Glisy Aerodrome (French: Aérodrome d'Amiens - Glisy, ) is an airport serving Amiens, the capital city of the Somme department of the Picardy (Picardie) region in France. The airport is located east-southeast of Amiens, in Glisy. The airport is used for general aviation, with no commercial airline service. History During World War II the airport was used by the German Luftwaffe during the occupation of France. It was attacked by the United States Army Air Force on several occasions in t…
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La table de Napoléon III
La table de Napoléon III
The Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne is a theater in Compiègne, France. Origins The Emperor Napoleon III decided to construct a theater in Compiègne to entertain his court in 1866. He chose the location and the architect of the building, Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet. Work began in 1867 and went well until the outbreak of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. The Battle of Sedan ruined the Empire and eliminated the possibility of completing the building on schedule. The walls were built, but the project for de…
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Clairière de Rethondes
Clairière de Rethondes
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea, and air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had been agreed with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. It was concluded after the German government sent a message to American president Woodrow Wilson to negotiate terms on the basis of a recent speech of his and the earlier declared "Fourteen Poi…
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CAM00666
The Aerodrome Abbeville (French: Aérodrome d'Abbeville) or Abbeville Airport, , is an airport serving Abbeville and located in Buigny-Saint-Maclou, north-northeast of Abbeville, both communes of the Somme département in the Picardie région of France. History It is not known when exactly the airfield was built, but it was in use with the British Expeditionary Forces in 1940. Detachments of No. 607 Squadron RAF with Gloster Gladiator biplanes were based here along with No. 151 Squadron RAF Hawker…
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The Fort de Condé, or Fort Pille, is a fortification of the Séré de Rivières system, built in France between 1877 and 1883 to defend the area between Soissons and Laon. It is located on the heights of the confluence of the Aisne and the Vesle near the communes of Condé-sur-Aisne and Chivres-Val. Although the fort was considered obsolete at the start of World War I, its command of strategic ground made it a coveted objective throughout the war, changing hands several times. Following the war it w…
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Familistère Guise 74
Familistère Guise 74
The canton of Guise is an administrative division in northern France. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was expanded from 19 to 45 communes: • Aisonville-et-Bernoville • Audigny • Barzy-en-Thiérache • Bergues-sur-Sambre • Bernot • Boué • Chigny • Crupilly • Dorengt • Esquéhéries • Étreux • Fesmy-le-Sart • Flavigny-le-Grand-et-Beaurain • Grand-Verly • Grougis • Guise • Hannapes • Hauteville • Iron • Lavaqueresse • Leschelle • Lesquielles-Saint-…
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3 - Journées du patrimoine Villers-Cotterets Pavillon Henri II
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The canton of Villers-Cotterêts is an administrative division in northern France. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was expanded from 20 to 76 communes: • Ambrief • Ancienville • Arcy-Sainte-Restitue • Armentières-sur-Ourcq • Beugneux • Billy-sur-Ourcq • Bonnesvalyn • Breny • Brumetz • Bussiares • Buzancy • Chacrise • Chaudun • Chézy-en-Orxois • Chouy • Corcy • Courchamps • Coyolles • Cramaille • La Croix-sur-Ourcq • Cuiry-Housse • Dammard • Da…
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Interesting clouds over the Normandy
Interesting clouds over …
The Abbey of Arrouaise French: [ɑʁ.wɛz] in northern France was the centre of a form of the canonical life known as the Arrouaisian Order, which was popular among the founders of canonries during the decade of the 1130s. The community began to develop when Heldemar joined the hermit Ruggerius in 1090 and approved by the local bishop in 1097. The priory was raised to the status of an abbey in 1121, electing as its first abbot, Gervaise. He impressed people who had the wealth and secular power, suf…
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Vermand - Le clocher de l'église
Vermand - Le clocher de …
The canton of Vermand is a former administrative division in northern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 24 communes, which joined the new canton of Saint-Quentin-1 in 2015. It had 9,663 inhabitants (2012). The canton comprised the following communes: • Attilly • Beauvois-en-Vermandois • Caulaincourt • Douchy • Étreillers • Fayet • Fluquières • Foreste • Francilly-Selency • Germaine • Gricourt • Holnon • Jean…
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Brissy-Hamégicourt - Fenêtre...
Brissy-Hamégicourt - Fen…
The canton of Moÿ-de-l'Aisne is a former administrative division in northern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 17 communes, which joined the canton of Ribemont in 2015. It had 7,898 inhabitants (2012). The canton comprised the following communes: • Alaincourt • Benay • Berthenicourt • Brissay-Choigny • Brissy-Hamégicourt • Cerizy • Châtillon-sur-Oise • Essigny-le-Grand • Gibercourt • Hinacourt • Itancourt • L…
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IMG_9993
The canton of La Capelle is a former administrative division in northern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It had 8,128 inhabitants (2012). The canton comprised the following communes: • Buironfosse • La Capelle • Chigny • Clairfontaine • Crupilly • Englancourt • Erloy • Étréaupont • La Flamengrie • Fontenelle • Froidestrées • Gergny • Lerzy • Luzoir • Papleux • Rocquigny • Sommeron • Sorbais
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The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (English: /ˌk_də_ˈtrɒmf-_ˈtrmf/, English: /-_trˈmf/, French: [aʁk də tʁijɔ̃f də letwal]; ) is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues. The location of the arc and the plaza is shared between three arrondissements, 16th (south and west), 17th (north), and 8…
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Parc Jean-Jacques-Rousseau - Ermenonville
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Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (TK981/THY981) was a scheduled flight from Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport to London Heathrow Airport, with an intermediate stop at Orly Airport in Paris. On 3 March 1974, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating the flight crashed into the Ermenonville Forest, outside Paris, killing all 346 people on board. The crash was also known as the Ermenonville air disaster. Flight 981 was the deadliest plane crash in aviation history until 27 March 1977, when 583 people perished in th…
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Haute-Picardie TGV station (French: Gare de TGV Haute-Picardie) is a railway station on the LGV Nord-Europe between Lille and Paris. Geographically, it is located about west of Péronne, between the towns of Saint Quentin and Amiens, in the heart of the Battle of the Somme territory. Overview When built, it was criticised by the press for being too far from any of the neighbouring towns to be useful. It was located near a trunk road rather than a connecting railway line: it was often nicknamed l…
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Saint-Quentin - Gare de Saint-Quentin
Saint-Quentin - Gare de …
Saint-Simon – Clastres Air Base (French: Base aérienne de Saint-Simon - Clastres) is an abandoned military airfield, which is located approximately northwest of Clastres and east of Saint-Simon, both communes in the Aisne department of the Picardy (Picardie) region in France. It is approximately north-northeast of Paris. Its history begins before World War II when it was originally a grass civil airdrome. During the German occupation of France (1940–1944), the Luftwaffe developed the airdrome…
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Poma 2000 - TUL (Transports Urbains Laonnois) / CTPL (Compagnie des Transports Urbains du Pays de Laon)(RATP Dev)
Poma 2000 - TUL (Transpo…
Laon-Couvron Air Base is a former French and United States Air Force base in France. It is located in the Aisne département of France, less than one mile southeast of the village of Couvron and 6 miles northwest of Laon; on the southwest side of the Autoroute des Anglais (A26 autoroute) 1 Mile (1.6 km) east of the village of Couvron-et-Aumencourt. After 1967, the facility was a French Army Armée de Terre station, renaming the base Quartier Mangin sur l'ancienne base de Couvron. From 1980 to 20…
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Henry de La Vaulx (1870–1930), was a balloonist, author, and cofounder of major French and international aeronautical associations. Biography He was born in Bierville, France on April 2, 1870. From March 1896 to May 1897 he stayed with native tribes in Patagonia, and later wrote a book about this experience. In 1898, he co-founded the Aero Club of France with Ernest Archdeacon, Léon Serpollet, Henri de la Valette, Jules Verne, Honorine de Viane Morel Verne, André Michelin, Albert de Dion, Albert…
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The Froissy Dompierre Light Railway (French: Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre, CFCD) is a narrow gauge light railway running from Froissy (a hamlet of La Neuville-lès-Bray) to Dompierre-Becquincourt, through Cappy, in the Somme department, France. It is run as a heritage railway by APPEVA (Association Picarde pour la Préservation et l'Entretien des Véhicules Anciens) and is also known as P'tit Train de la Haute Somme. It is the last survivor of the narrow gauge trench railways of the World War…
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