"Santerre (region) The Santerre is a natural region of France, located in the center of the French region of Picardy. Located between Amiens and Saint-Quentin, the Santerre is a territory covering an area of about 3,000 km², including 242 communes and with a population of 106,489 inhabitants. Still covered with forests at the beginning of the Middle Ages, the region has been largely cleared to make room for agriculture. It was on the border of France until 1659, and has been invaded many times during the history of France. In particular, it was a major battleground for the Battle of"
"it is used today. Although Picardy is one of the least-known regions in France, its influence from art and most certainly architecture is vivid throughout the world. Picardy Picardy (; , ) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region of Hauts-de-France. It is located in the northern part of France. The historical province of Picardy stretched from north of Noyon to Calais, via the whole of the Somme department and the north of the Aisne department. The province of Artois (Arras area) separated Picardy"
"Picardy Picardy (; , ) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region of Hauts-de-France. It is located in the northern part of France. The historical province of Picardy stretched from north of Noyon to Calais, via the whole of the Somme department and the north of the Aisne department. The province of Artois (Arras area) separated Picardy from French Flanders. From the 5th century the area was part of the Frankish Empire, and in the feudal period it encompassed the six countships of Boulogne,"
"lost inhabitants, and the Somme barely grew with a 0.16% growth per year. Today, 41.3% of the population of Picardy live inside the Oise department. Picardy stretches from the long sand beaches of the Somme estuary in the west to the vast forests and pastures of the Thiérache in the east and down to the châteaux of Chantilly or Pierrefonds near the Paris Area and vineyards of the border with Champagne (""Champagne picarde"") to the south. The president of the regional council is Claude Gewerc, a Socialist in office since 2004. That year he defeated longtime UDF incumbent Gilles de"
"Picard language Picard is a langues d'oïl dialect spoken in the northernmost part of France and southern Belgium. Administratively, the area where it is spoken is divided between the French Hauts-de-France region and the Belgian Wallonia along the border between the two countries – its traditional core being the districts of Tournai and Mons, commonly referred to as Walloon Picardy. The Picard language group is known by several different names. Residents of Picardy simply call it picard, but it is more commonly known as chti or chtimi in the more populated Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Romance Flanders around the metropolis of Lille and"
"Hôtel de Berny is an annexe of the Musée de Picardie. Musée de Picardie The Musée de Picardie is the main museum of Amiens and Picardy, in France. It is located at 48, rue de la République. Its collections stretch from prehistory to the 19th century and form one of the largest regional museums in France. The museum was founded as the ""musée Napoléon"" in 1802 (the year of the Treaty of Amiens). However, the museum building, is later, being purpose-built as a regional museum (one of France's first such buildings) between 1855 and 1867. The Second Empire style building"
"during the Napoleonic Wars in the 19th century, in order to counter the United Kingdom, which had seized the sugar islands possessed by France in the Caribbean. The sugar industry has continued to play a prominent role in the economy of the region. One of the most significant historical events to occur in Picardy was the series of battles fought along the Somme during World War I. From September 1914 to August 1918, four major battles, including the Battle of the Somme, were fought by British, French, and German forces in the fields of Northern Picardy. In 2009, the Regional"
"Musée de Picardie The Musée de Picardie is the main museum of Amiens and Picardy, in France. It is located at 48, rue de la République. Its collections stretch from prehistory to the 19th century and form one of the largest regional museums in France. The museum was founded as the ""musée Napoléon"" in 1802 (the year of the Treaty of Amiens). However, the museum building, is later, being purpose-built as a regional museum (one of France's first such buildings) between 1855 and 1867. The Second Empire style building was designed by architects Henri Parent and Arthur-Stanislas Diet. It was"
"of tennis), as well as ""danses picardes"" and its own bagpipes, called the ""pipasso"". The villages of Picardy have a distinct character, with their houses made of red bricks, often accented with a ""lace"" of white bricks. A minority of people still speak the Picard language, one of the languages of France, which is also spoken in Artois (Nord-Pas de Calais ""région""). ""P'tit quinquin"", a Picard song, is a symbol of the local culture (and of that of Artois). Picardy is the birthplace of Gothic architecture, housing six of the world's greatest examples of Gothic cathedrals, which envelop the history"
"historically defined as Picardy. The new Picardy included the Somme ""département"", the northern half of the Aisne ""département"", and a small fringe in the north of the Oise ""département"". In 1557, Picardy was invaded by Habsburg forces under the command of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy. After a seventeen-day siege, St. Quentin would be ransacked, while Noyon would be burned by the Habsburg army. In the early 18th century, an infectious disease similar to English sweat originated from the region and spread across France. It was called ""Suette des picards"" or Picardy sweat. Sugar beet was introduced by Napoleon I"
"historic and cultural areas going back to the Western Roman Empire and readily identified by their inhabitants. Below is a list of the ""pays"" which made up the Île-de-France province, with their principal cities: http://www.regions-of-france.com/regions/paris_ile_de_france/history/ History of Île-de-France Île-de-France is a province of France encompassing the north-central departments of Val-d’Oise, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Ville-de-Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Essonne, and Yvelines. It is bounded by the regions of Picardy (Picardie) to the north, Champagne-Ardenne to the east, Burgundy (Bourgogne) to the southeast, Centre to the south, and Haute-Normandie to the northwest. Its capital is Paris and it has an area of 4,637 square"
"de Caux, the Pays de Bray (not that of Picardy), the Roumois, the Campagne of Le Neubourg, the Plaine de Saint-André and the Norman Vexin. Today, most of the Pays d'Auge, as well as a small portion of the Pays d'Ouche, are located in Lower Normandy. Rouen and Le Havre are important urban centers. Rouen is the regional capital, historically important with many fine churches and buildings, including the tallest cathedral tower in France. The region's largest city, in terms of municipal population, is Le Havre, although Rouen is by far the most populous urban area and metropolitan area. The"
"Amiens – Glisy Aerodrome Amiens – Glisy Aerodrome (, ) is an airport serving Amiens, the capital city of the Somme department of the Picardy (""Picardie"") region in France. The airport is located east-southeast of Amiens, in Glisy. The airport is used for general aviation, with no commercial airline service. During World War II the airport was used by the German Luftwaffe during the occupation of France. It was attacked by the United States Army Air Force on several occasions in the spring of 1944. Later, it was liberated by the British Second Army in August 1944. RAF and RNZAF"
"900th anniversary of the Cistercian Order, and the ""Rose of Picardy"" created in 2004 by David Austin. Jardins de Valloires The Jardins de Valloires (8 hectares) are botanical gardens located on the grounds of the 18th century Abbaye de Valloires in Argoules, Somme, Picardy, France. They are classified as a ""Jardin Remarquable"", and open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The gardens' origins date to 1981 when gardener Jean-Louis Cousin began to look for a site for his collection of 3000 plant varieties from north Asia and North America. In 1985 the region of Picardy, department"
"History of Île-de-France Île-de-France is a province of France encompassing the north-central departments of Val-d’Oise, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Ville-de-Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Essonne, and Yvelines. It is bounded by the regions of Picardy (Picardie) to the north, Champagne-Ardenne to the east, Burgundy (Bourgogne) to the southeast, Centre to the south, and Haute-Normandie to the northwest. Its capital is Paris and it has an area of 4,637 square miles (12,011 square km), and a population of 11,491,000 (2006). The region lies in the center of the Paris Basin and consists of limestone plains with a gently rolling relief. Its principal rivers are the"
"LGV Picardie The LGV Picardie is a proposed high-speed railway line running between Paris and Calais, via Amiens, in France. When the LGV Nord was planned, the residents of the city of Amiens in the Picardy region campaigned for the line to run through Amiens. SNCF decided instead to build the new high-speed line on a more direct route between Paris and Lille. The Picardy region is now served by the TGV Haute Picardie station, though this has been criticised for its lack of intermodal connections, summarised by the saying, ""station in a beetroot field"". The LGV Picardie would presumably"
"Several small recreational vineyards were established in the last two decades and at least one operates on a commercial scale in Grisy near Caen. Picardy is not an official wine region anymore. Yet it has a rich history related to grapegrowing and winemaking and has recently been demonstrating a revival of its . 40 villages of Picardy (south of the Aisne department) are now part of the area and several small recreational vineyards were established in the last two decades e.g. in Coucy le Château, Gerberoy, Gouvieux, Clairoix, etc. Provence, in the south-east and close to the Mediterranean. It is"
"(Boulonais), that is now in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, but does incorporate the ""pays"" of Beauvaisis, Valois, Noyonnais, Laonnois, Soissonnais, Omois, among other departments of France. The older definition of Picardy survives in the name of the Picard language, which applies not only to the dialects of Picardy proper, but also to the Romance dialects spoken in the Nord-Pas de Calais ""région"", north of Picardy proper, and parts of the Belgian province of Hainaut. Between the 1990 and 1999 censuses, the population of Oise increased 0.61% per year (almost twice as fast as France as a whole), while the Aisne department"
"Committee for local government reform proposed to reduce the number of French regions and cancel additions of new regions in the near future. Picardy would have disappeared, and each department would have joined a nearby region. The Oise would have been incorporated in the Île-de-France, the Somme would have been incorporated in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Aisne would have been incorporated in the Champagne-Ardenne. The vast majority of Picards were opposed to this proposal, and it was scrapped in 2010 (see newspaper: ""Courrier Picard""). Today, the modern region of Picardy no longer includes the coastline from Berck to Calais, via Boulogne"
"Amiens Cathedral The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens (), or simply Amiens Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Amiens. It is situated on a slight ridge overlooking the River Somme in Amiens, the administrative capital of the Picardy region of France, some north of Paris. Medieval cathedral builders were trying to maximize the internal dimensions in order to reach for the heavens and bring in more light. In that regard, the Amiens cathedral is the tallest complete cathedral in France, its stone-vaulted nave reaching an internal height of (surpassed"
"was recognized by King Louis VI of France, and joined to the Crown of France in 1185. In 1597, Spanish soldiers held the city during the six-month Siege of Amiens, before Henry IV regained control. During the 18th and 19th century, the textile tradition of Amiens became famous for its velours. In 1789 the provinces of France were dismantled and the territory was organised into departments. Much of Picardy became the newly created department of Somme, with Amiens as the departmental capital. During the industrial revolution the city walls were demolished, opening up space for large boulevards around the town"
"Bigorre Bigorre (Gascon: ""Bigòrra"") is a region in southwest France, historically an independent county and later a French province, located in the upper watershed of the Adour, on the northern slopes of the Pyrenees, part of the larger region known as Gascony. Today Bigorre comprises the centre and west of the ""département"" of Hautes-Pyrénées, with two small exclaves in the neighbouring Pyrénées Atlantiques. Its inhabitants are called ""Bigourdans"". Before the French Revolution, the province of Bigorre had a land area of 2,574 km² (994 sq. miles). Its capital was Tarbes. At the 1999 French census, there lived 177,575 inhabitants on"
"Hauts-de-France Hauts-de-France (, meaning ""Upper France""), is a region of France created by the territorial reform of French Regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its capital is Lille. The new region came into existence on 1 January 2016, after the regional elections in December 2015. France's Conseil d'État approved Hauts-de-France as the name of the region on 28 September 2016, effective 30 September 2016. With 6,009,976 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2015), and a population of 189 inhabitants/km2, it represents the 3rd most populous region in France and the 2nd most densely populated in metropolitan France"
"friends. Weatherly travelled in France visiting the Rhone valley and Chamonix. Picardy was a historical province of France which stretched from north of Noyon to Calais via the whole of the Somme department and the north of the Aisne department. This area contained the Somme battlefields – the scene of some of the fiercest fighting during the First World War. The song quickly became popular throughout Britain, with British soldiers singing it when they enlisted for the Front in France and Flanders. During the First World War, the song sold at a rate of 50,000 copies of the sheet music"
"to Paris. In 2001, the Somme valley was affected by particularly high floods, which were in large part due to a rise in the water table of the surrounding land. Catchment area . Daily flow rates compared with mean rates for the time of year at Hangest-sur-Somme (m³/s). Catchment area . 1993.1994. 1995. 1996. 1997. 1998. 1999. 2000.2001.2002.2003.2004.2005. Mean flow rates monthly and daily at Péronne (m³/s). Catchment area . 1986.1987.1988.1989.1990.1991.1992.1993.1994.<br>1995.1996.1997.1998.1999.2000.2001.2002.2003.2004.2005. Somme (river) The Somme (; ) is a river in Picardy, northern France. The name ""Somme"" comes from a Celtic word meaning ""tranquility"". The department Somme was named after"
"Hotel de Berny Museum The Hotel de Berny Museum (French: ""Musée d'art local et d'histoire régionale"" or ""Musée de l'Hôtel de Berny"") is a local history museum for the region of Picardy. It is located in Amiens. It is currently closed for building works. It is a Museum of France. It was established when in 1957 Gérard de Berny left the city of Amiens his hôtel particulier, its surrounding buildings and his collection of art and Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture signed by François Foliot (le Jeune), Sené père and Pierre Roussel. He was a former senator for the"
"Beauvais Beauvais (; archaic English: ""Beawayes, Beeway, Boway""; ) is a city and commune in northern France. It serves as the capital of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region. Beauvais is located approximately from Paris. The residents of the city are called Beauvaisiens. The municipality (commune) of Beauvais has a population of 54,289 , population estimate from the Insee, and ranks as the most populous city in the Oise department, and the third most-populous city in Picardy. Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, the metropolitan area of Beauvais has a population of 103,885. Beauvais was known to the"
"Albert – Picardie Airport Albert – Picardie Airport () , sometimes referred to as Albert – Picardy Airport, is an airport serving Albert, a commune of the Somme department in the Picardy (""Picardie"") region of northern France. The airport is located southeast of Albert, in Bray-sur-Somme. It is primarily used for the transportation of Airbus aircraft parts from the company's factory at Méaulte nearby. The airport's runway is large enough to accommodate Airbus' Beluga, a large cargo aircraft used to courier parts used in the construction of its own commercial jets. The airport is also home to a flying club,"
"Laon Laon () is the capital city of the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France, northern France. its population is 25,317. The holy district of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance. In the time of Julius Caesar there was a Gallic village named Bibrax where the Remis (inhabitants of the country round Reims) had to meet the onset of the confederated Belgae. Whatever may have been the precise locality of that battlefield, Laon was fortified by the Romans, and successively checked the invasions of the Franks, Burgundians, Vandals, Alans and Huns."
"28 September 2016, effective 30 September 2016. The administrative capital and largest city is Strasbourg. The provisional name of the region was Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine, which is formed by combining the names of the three present regions—Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne, and Lorraine—in alphabetical order with hyphens. The formula for the provisional name of the region was established by the territorial reform law and applied to all but one of the provisional names for new regions. The ACAL regional council, which was elected in December 2015, was given the task of choosing a name for the region and submitting it to the Conseil d'État—France's highest"
"and Maréchal Leclerc. Hotel de Berny Museum The Hotel de Berny Museum (French: ""Musée d'art local et d'histoire régionale"" or ""Musée de l'Hôtel de Berny"") is a local history museum for the region of Picardy. It is located in Amiens. It is currently closed for building works. It is a Museum of France. It was established when in 1957 Gérard de Berny left the city of Amiens his hôtel particulier, its surrounding buildings and his collection of art and Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture signed by François Foliot (le Jeune), Sené père and Pierre Roussel. He was a former"
"houses were built. The ""Nouvelles Galeries"", which opened their doors in 1895 on the ""Rue des Trois-Cailloux"", competed with small trade. In 1902, Henri installed his first ready-to-wear store in this iconic shopping street. Beginning in 1905, Victor Commont, called ""the founding father of modern Prehistoric science,"" performed important archaeological work in the Picardy area. In 1906, the CGT held an historic congress which developed the Charter of Amiens, signed on 13 October 1906, a constitution of French syndicalism defining its independence from political parties. The Picardy capital was a vibrant city, rich with sports and cultural activities. Evidenced by"
"Béarn Béarn (; Gascon: ""Bearn"" or ""Biarn""; ; ) is one of the traditional provinces of France, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in southwest France. Along with the three Basque provinces of Soule, Lower Navarre, and Labourd, the principality of Bidache, as well as small parts of Gascony, it forms in the southwest the current ""département"" of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64). The capitals of Béarn were Beneharnum (until 841), Morlaàs (from ca. 1100), Orthez (from the second half of the 13th century), then Pau (beginning in the mid-15th century). Béarn is bordered by Basque provinces"