Hauts-de-France, an administrative region in northern France located on the English Channel and shares a border with Belgium, has five departments: Aisne, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais and Somme. - AsNotedIn
Hauts-de-France, an administrative region in northern France located on the English Channel and shares a border with Belgium, has five departments: Aisne, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais and Somme. - AsNotedIn
Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
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Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
Abbeville | Town |
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Departement du Somme |
Aire-sur-la-Lys, FR | Town |
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Pas-de-Calais, FR |
Albert, Somme, FR | Town |
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Departement du Somme |
Amiens | City |
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Departement du Somme |
Armentieres, FR | Town |
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Departement du Nord, FR |
Arras, FR | Town |
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Pas-de-Calais, FR |
Bailleul, Nord | Town |
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Departement du Nord, FR |
Beaumont-Hamel | Village |
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Departement du Somme |
Calais | City |
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Pas-de-Calais, FR |
Cambrai | Town |
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Departement du Nord, FR |
Chantilly, Oise | Town |
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Chateau-Thierry | Town |
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Departement du Aisne |
Douai | Town |
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Departement du Nord, FR |
Dunkirk, FR | City |
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Departement du Nord, FR |
Godewaersvelde | Town |
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Departement du Nord, FR |
La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil, FR | Village |
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Pas-de-Calais, FR |
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin | Historic District | Pas-de-Calais, FR | |
Ovillers-la-Boisselle | Village |
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Departement du Somme |
Peronne, Somme, FR | Town |
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Departement du Somme |
Pozieres | Village |
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Departement du Somme |
Saint-Omer | Town |
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Pas-de-Calais, FR |
Thiepval, Somme | Village |
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Departement du Somme |
Tourcoing | City |
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Departement du Nord, FR |
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1916/07/01 | Wilfred Nevill | Died | Montauban Alley is captured by the 18th Division, but Captain Wilfred Nevill's is killed by machine gun fire just short of the German wire. Captain Nevill is buried at Carnoy, France. | Battle of the Somme | ||
1918/07/17 | William Noble Wallace | Military | 2nd Lt Tee Wallace leads his platoon over the top of a hill in fighting at Belleau Woods. |
Particulars for Hauts-de-France: | |
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Locale type | Region of France |
Vicinage | Type | AsNotedIn |
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Departement du Aisne | Department of France | |
Departement du Nord, FR | Department of France | |
Departement du Somme | Department of France | |
Pas-de-Calais, FR | Department of France |
Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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An Uncomfortable Bed (short story) | Short Story |
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Guy de Maupassant | One autumn I went to spend the hunting season with some friends in a chateau in Picardy. |
Diary of a Country Priest | Book |
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Georges Bernanos | Set in Ambricourt, France |
Diary of a Country Priest | Film | Robert Bresson | Set in Ambricourt, France | |
Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort | Book |
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Edith Wharton | Dunkirk is a city in the Nord department in northern France. |
Germinal | Book | Emile Zola | "Germinal" is set in the fictional mining town of Montsou, France | |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Film | Julian Schnabel | "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is set in Berck-sur-Mer, France | |
The Marne (book) | Mezzobula |
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Edith Wharton | The Marne - this was the actual setting of the battle of the Marne! This happy temperate landscape, with its sheltering woods, its friendly fields and downs flowing away to a mild sky, had looked on at the most awful conflict in history. |