Wissant (French pronunciation: [ɥisɑ̃]; from Dutch: Witzand, “white sand”) is a seaside commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France...

Jacques de Wissant was, together with his brother Pierre, one of the six burghers of Calais. Because of the name, it can be assumed that the brothers...

six burghers depicted are: Eustache de Saint Pierre Jacques de Wissant Pierre de Wissant Jean de Fiennes Andrieu d'Andres Jean d'Aire Under French law...

Museum Kunstmuseum Basel Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch Pierre de Wissant Jacques de Wissant Eustache de Saint Pierre Jean de Fiennes Jean d'Aire Wikimedia...

Batterie Lindemann (four 406 mm guns at Sangatte), Batterie Wissant (150 mm guns near Wissant), Batterie Todt (four 380 mm guns), Grosser Kurfurst (four...

Retable of Pierre de Wissant, may be another work by Colart de Laon. Annunciation by the Master of the Retable of Pierre de Wissant Reverse of the Retable...

Sainte-Cécile-Plage Hardelot-Plage Équihen-Plage Wimereux Audresselles Ambleteuse Wissant Blériot-Plage Bray-Dunes From south to north: Merlimont Cucq Saint-Étienne-au-Mont...

location is unknown. The main candidates have been Saint-Omer (Sithiu), Wissant and Boulogne (more usually called Gesoriacum and later Bononia), but a...

Philippe (2013). L'École de Wissant et ses peintres [The School of Wissant and its painters] (in French). Art et Histoire de Wissant. ISBN 9782954567303. Couples...

1851, Douai - 25 October 1928, Wissant) was a French landscape painter; associated with the artists' colony at Wissant. At first, he studied law, but...

the east. The Pale roughly encompassed the land between Gravelines and Wissant, which was about 20 square miles (52 km2). Throughout its history, the...

department, and Université d'Artois on the eastern part. Mussel aquaculture in Wissant Cap Gris Nez Cap Blanc Nez Boulogne-sur-Mer Nausicaä Le Touquet Grand-Place...

vertical garden in 2011. The Thinker, temporary exhibition. Pierre de Wissant, one of The Burghers of Calais, by Auguste Rodin CaixaForum Lleida CaixaForum...

Portus Dubris, modern Dover, England Itius Portus, perhaps Boulogne or Wissant, France Portus Julius, near Naples, Italy Search for "portus" on Wikipedia...

Pierre de Wissant is a bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, part of his sculptural group The Burghers of Calais. This sculpture represents...

the Channel to Sumeran (now called Sombres), landing at the village of Wissant. The route continues through Guînes (Sigeric's Gisne), Thérouanne (Teranburh)...

was travelling through France in late 1254. It was kept for a while at Wissant on the northern French coast, whilst transport was arranged to England...

was a French landscape painter; associated with the artists' colony at Wissant. After completing his primary education in Douai, he began his artistic...

1890. At about that time, Demont-Breton moved to a small village named Wissant. Encouraged to follow, the Duhems established a home in Camiers and gathered...

Scarborough, headed by Heath Samples, crossed from Shakespeare Beach to Wissant.[citation needed] It took 12 hours 26 minutes 39 seconds and set a new...

husband of the painter Virginie Demont-Breton. It was at their workshop in Wissant that she met her future husband, the painter Henri Duhem, eleven years...

parents in France until the end of the year. They were later settled in Wissant, a seaside community in Calais along the English Channel. Yvonne met Charles...

He built a monastery at Estrouanne, near the English channel port of Wissant, destroyed and burnt by Gormond and Isembart. Fiacre approached Faro, as...

points of France to England), and attractive seaside resorts like Wimereux, Wissant, Hardelot and Le Touquet. The hinterland is mainly rural and agricultural...

Solebay First and Second Schooneveld James River Texel Masulipatnam Málaga 2nd Messina Stromboli Augusta Bornholm Öland Palermo Tobago Møn Køge Bay Wissant...

Solebay First and Second Schooneveld James River Texel Masulipatnam Málaga 2nd Messina Stromboli Augusta Bornholm Öland Palermo Tobago Møn Køge Bay Wissant...

Solebay First and Second Schooneveld James River Texel Masulipatnam Málaga 2nd Messina Stromboli Augusta Bornholm Öland Palermo Tobago Møn Køge Bay Wissant...

dangerous; around 1,300 poor Jewish passengers crossed the English Channel to Wissant near Calais for 4d each. Tolls were collected by the constable of the Tower...

fanning out behind Cape gris-Nez. Other firing locations were set up behind Wissant and near Calais, at the level of the Digue Royale (royal dyke). Copied...

They continued to devastate the land, and razed several towns, including Wissant, the normal port of disembarkation for English shipping to north-east France...