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    Handball The Amiens Picardie Hand [fr] (APH), currently playing in National 2 [fr] (D4). The club, a result of the merger of several Amiens clubs, was created...
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    The Battle of Amiens, also known as the Third Battle of Picardy (French: 3ème Bataille de Picardie), was the opening phase of the Allied offensive which...
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    displayed at the Musée de Picardie in Amiens from 1878. It was believed that the work was destroyed in the bombing of Amiens in 1918 during World War I...
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  • médicales, Faculté de médecine et CHU d’Amiens, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80054 Amiens, France; Emmanuel, Evens; Laboratoire de Qualité de l’Eau...
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    north–western end. Glisy Abbeville-Drucat Poix de Picardie Mons en Chausseé Méharicourt Montdidier Amiens The two sections of 21 Squadron, in reserve, were...
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    The railway from Amiens to Rouen is a French 114-kilometre long railway line, that connects Amiens to Rouen. It was opened in 1867. The line was electrified...
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    architecture, mobilier et trésor (in French). Amiens: Association pour la généralisation de l'Inventaire régional en Picardie. ISBN 2-906340-42-1. Wikimedia Commons...
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    tamis, longue paume, Centre régional de documentation pédagogique de Picardie, Amiens, France, 1996. (in French) Fédération Française de Balle à la Main...
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    François de Monchy (–1552), murdered in Amiens, his killers were tortured and executed by the governor of Picardie; Antoine de Monchy, baron of Vimeu; Jean...
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    delivery. By 1594 the situation facing the ligue in Picardie was increasingly bleak, Château Thierry, Amiens, Noyon and Beauvais which had been under Aumale's...
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    Saint-Quentinois. Nolan & Sandron 2015, p. 50. Saint-Quentin Basilique ... orgues de Picardie. Abelard (2015). "Germans in France - Saint Quentin Cathedral". Retrieved...
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    Peter the Hermit (category People from Amiens)
    Little Peter, Peter of Amiens (fr. Pierre d'Amiens) or Peter of Achères (fr. Pierre d'Achères), was a Roman Catholic priest of Amiens and a key figure during...
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    and Abbeville. Bournonville was in Amiens before 1619: he was appointed maître de chapelle (symphoniarca) of the Amiens Cathedral with respect to his 1619...
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    governor of Picardie in his stead. Bourbon entered Amiens on 27 July. The Protestants had enjoyed great success in assuming influence in Amiens, and by 1562...
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    Amiens and an increasing number of French formations would reinforce the Fifth Army, eventually taking over large parts of the front south of Amiens....
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    Le Creusot, and Haute Picardie station between Amiens and Saint-Quentin. The press and local authorities criticised Haute Picardie as being too far from...
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    last of the monks dispersed: 300 manuscripts still at Corbie were moved to Amiens, 15 km to the west. Those at St-Germain des Prés were released on the market...
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    on 17 October 1849, Clésinger made Chopin's death mask and a cast of his hands. He also sculpted, in 1850, the white marble funerary monument of Euterpe...
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    was destroyed and his father captured. After serving as a lieutenant in Picardie he found himself gaining advantage on the death of Henri II, the new Guise...
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    this forest massif for the passage of the road from Amiens to the village of Ponches on the one hand, and on the other to the west by the road linking the...
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    city), Lepoittevin's works are in the collections of the Musée de Picardie in Amiens; the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers; the Musée Sarret de Grozon in...
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    m’bouque i n’est point coér au monne': Grammatical variation and diglossia in Picardie". Journal of French Language Studies 23,1:109-133. Auger, Julie. 2010....
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    their nephew. Madeleine brought with her to the marriage family lands in Picardie. Her brother, Montmorency's new brother-in-law was Claude de Savoie, comte...
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    number of cities in north eastern France, among them Amiens. In mid 1597, Henri laid siege to Amiens. He found himself unable to rely on his former Protestant...
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    of lieutenant-general of Bretagne in 1592, then lieutenant-general of Picardie in April 1596. Established as grand maître de l'artillerie on the resignation...
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    villes du nord de la Gaule. Musée de Picardie, Amiens 2006, pp. 63–72 (= Ausstellungskatalog Musée de Picardie Amiens) ISBN 978-2-908095-38-8. Gabriele Clemens...
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  • Municipal Fund of the City of Paris (FMAC), Paris Picardie Regional Contemporary Art Fund (FRAC Picardie), Amiens Regional Contemporary Art Fund PACA (FRAC PACA)...
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    capture of Amiens on 11 March 1597 furthered the military crisis and induced further need for money from Henri. The province of Picardie was made vulnerable...
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    at the Rouen end. On the other hand, passenger demand is weak but tends to be focussed by the express TER Rouen - Amiens - Arras - Douai - Lille axis....
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