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    company and a carpentry. There is no more trade in the commune except the passage of street traders such as a bakery and butchery. The services are represented...
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    ISBN 0-662-52832-8 Jacob, Yves (2000), Jacques Cartier (French version), Éditions l'Ancre de marine, ISBN 2-84141-145-1 Trudel, Marcel (1973). The Beginnings of New...
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  • receiving the Prix de Rome. The engraving business acquired by Devambez just before the Franco-Prussian War was founded in 1827 at No. 17, passage des Panoramas...
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     11. L'héroïsme de Ringois nous est connu par un passage des Grandes chroniques de France (Règne de Charles V. p. 97) Lettres patentes de Louis XI. Crotoy...
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    earlier name "Caput Loci" which suggests a fortress was built to defend the passage of the Somme. In the 10th century, the village had a priory. Robert I of...
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  • Saint-Étienne-de-Brillouet, Saint-Georges-de-Pointindoux, Saint-Germain-l'Aiguiller, Saint-Gervais, Saint-Hilaire-de-Voust, Saint-Hilaire-la-Forêt, Saint-Jean-de-Beugné...
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    centre. By the 17th century, the Huguenots were hiding in underground passages for protection. The mairie (town hall) The old windmill. Sitting in the...
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    turns south through a valley past Miraumont, Grandcourt, Beaucourt-sur-l'Ancre and St Pierre Divion. On the north side of the river, the Auchonville Spur...
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  • the capture – de Graaf claimed the Spaniard had attacked him first - and granted de Graaf possession of the ship. The Governor of Port-de-Paix asked him...
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    to block their passage to the sea. In the 11th century, a fort comprising a palisade on a motte was built at Laviers, near the Bois de Bonance, on a point...
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    convent, of which few vestiges remain (a few walls and some underground passages). The priors came from the Abbey of Selaincourt. In the 12th century, the...
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