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Hauts-de-France

  • Former Administrative Regions: Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy

  • Type: Region of France

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


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PlaceTypeAsNotedInArea
PlaceTypeAsNotedInArea
Abbeville Town
Departement du Somme
Aire-sur-la-Lys, FR Town
Pas-de-Calais, FR
Albert, Somme, FR Town
Departement du Somme
Amiens City
Departement du Somme
Armentieres, FR Town
Departement du Nord, FR
Arras, FR Town
Pas-de-Calais, FR
Bailleul, Nord Town
Departement du Nord, FR
Beaumont-Hamel Village
Departement du Somme
Calais City
Pas-de-Calais, FR
Cambrai Town
Departement du Nord, FR
Chateau-Thierry Town
Departement du Aisne
Douai Town
Departement du Nord, FR
Dunkirk, FR City
Departement du Nord, FR
La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil, FR Village
Pas-de-Calais, FR
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin Historic District Pas-de-Calais, FR
Ovillers-la-Boisselle Village
Departement du Somme
Peronne, Somme, FR Town
Departement du Somme
Pozieres Village
Departement du Somme
Saint-Omer Town
Pas-de-Calais, FR
Thiepval, Somme Village
Departement du Somme
Tourcoing City
Departement du Nord, FR

Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
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.

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Maroilles AOP Cheese
Maroilles or Marolles Cheese



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Particulars for Hauts-de-France:
Locale type Region of France



Vicinage »

VicinageTypeAsNotedIn
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

Creative Works »

WorkTypeAsNotedInCreatorNote
An Uncomfortable Bed (short story) Short Story
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
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
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
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.

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