in several regions of France such as Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Dunkirk, Lille, Douai, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Calais, Saint-Omer, Béthune,...

15th and early 16th century. The bust of Henry IV, attributed to Mathieu Jacquet, is from that period, as are the two figures on either side of the fireplace...

France: Du Moyen-Âge à l'Abolition de la Peine de Mort. Paris (75): Éditions Perrin, 2012 Delarue, Jacques: Le Métier de Bourreau: Du Moyen Âge à Aujourd'hui...

Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (EJG.30) and Sébastien de Brossard have composed a cantate Judith. Alessandro Scarlatti wrote an oratorio in 1693, La Giuditta...

20–27) simultaneously with Douai under the eyes of the Sun King. Lille then became French on May 2, 1668, under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which provoked...

creation of the University of Douai (which will later become the University of Lille). August 15 – Led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish missionary...

activity organized in networks, with the best known being that of Jacquet, Trulin and Louise de Bettignies. Active collaboration was more limited than that...

of 1551–1559: Gaspard II de Coligny, the French governor of Picardy (in northern France), launches surprise attacks on Douai and Lens in the Spanish Netherlands...

Mérimée: Hôtel de ville, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Base Palissy: Le mobilier de l'hôtel de ville, Ministère français de la Culture. (in...