Arques-la-Bataille, in the Seine-Maritime département, along the Arques River
It currently starts just outside Dieppe at Arques-la-Bataille and stops again just outside Forges-les-Eaux but once complete, the route will extend to Paris almost entirely on traffic-free routes.
A gentleman of the King's Chamber, François Aymar (or Aimar) de Cleremont de Chaste served as governor of Dieppe and Arques-la-Bataille as well as the French ambassador to England during mid to late 16th century.
In 1896 he went to Arques-la-Bataille in Normandy, where he painted several landscapes, and from France he went together with his family to Rome in 1897.
Harold Forscythe and his new wife Ethel are visiting the Westfields, who live in Arques-la-Bataille.
They had at least five children: Enguerrand II who succeeded Hugh II as Count of Ponthieu; Robert; Hugh (whose name is inferred by evidence contained within The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio); Waleran, and a daughter who was married to William of Talou, the count of Arques, and uncle to duke William of Normandy (the Conqueror).
It is known that Desceliers was ordained and lived near Arques.
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The company was established in Arques, Pas-de-Calais, where it is still headquartered, as a glass-making firm under the name Verrerie des Sept Ecluses in 1825.
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Arc International was established in 1825 in the village of Arques in northern France by Alexander des Lyons de Noircarm, who began production by manufacturing glass storage containers known as "dame-jeanne" (demijohns in English), which were popular at that time.
The area was owned by the Abbey of Lagrasse in the early 11th century, before coming under the control of the Seigneurs of Termes.
It has been the headquarters of Arc International, the largest manufacturer of glassware in the world, since its inception in the 19th century.
The Battle of Blavet (French: Bataille du Blavet) was an encounter between the Huguenot forces of Soubise and a French fleet under the Duke of Nevers in Blavet harbour (Port de Blavet, modern Port-Louis), Brittany in January 1625, triggering the Second Huguenot rebellion against the Crown of France.
The naval Battle of the Saintes, fought in 1782 near the island and referred to in French histories as the "Bataille de Dominique"
The Canal de Neufossé is a French canal connecting the Aa River in Arques to the Canal d'Aire in Aire-sur-la-Lys.
A baroque castle, Château du Champ-de-Bataille lies between the communes of Neubourg and Sainte-Opportune-du-Bosc, and in the Campagne du Neubourg, between the river Risle to the west and the river Iton to the east.
In 1590, he led the cavalry of the Duke Alessandro Farnese in the Eighty Years' War and showed great courage in the battle of Ivry on 14 March 1590.
Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye is a 2004 experimental film adaptation of the 1928 novel Story of the Eye by the French writer Georges Bataille.
Bataille's Eye & ICI Field Notes 4 (1995): an examination of philosopher Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye, focusing on the publication and translation history of Bataille's text.
::Volume I : Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Barbusse, Henry Bataille, André Castagnou, Jean Cocteau, Tristan Corbière, Guy-Charles Cros, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Tristan Derème, Charles Derennes, Emile Despax, Léon Deubel, Alfred Droin, Georges Duhamel, Édouard Dujardin, Max Elskamp, Fagus, André Fontainas, Paul Fort, René Ghil, Remy de Gourmont, Fernand Gregh, Charles Guérin.
Desceliers' father was an archer at the Chateau d’Arques and his family possibly originated from the d’Auge area, where the family name survives between Honfleur and Pont-l’Évêque.
In 1931 Pierre Kaan began his involvement with Boris Souvarine's La Critique Sociale joining Bataille, Weil, Queneau, Lucien Laurat and other writers, philosophers and economists to revue letters and ideas for what would become a widely read publication during the 1930s.
Various wars have been waged around the town, including the war of 1046 to 1056 between Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (the Pious) and Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, one battle of which was fought between Arques and Aire-sur-la-Lys.
In strategic terms, Ivry was on the boundary of the duchy of Normandy, by an important crossroads on a roman Road, by the valley of the River Eure.
Roger d'Ivry or d'Ivri or Roger Perceval (died 1079) was an 11th-century nobleman from Ivry-la-Bataille in Normandy.
After the Algerian War, Yacef helped produce Gillo Pontecorvo's film The Battle of Algiers (1966), based on Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger.
At the time she earned the Military Medal in 1915, she was based in a large camp on the road to Arques in France.
In 1418 he went back to Normandy with a large force, taking part in the sieges of Evreux, Ivry, and Rouen.
Toques et Clochers is an annual gastronomy festival in Aude, France sponsored by the Sieur d'Arques wine cooperative.
In the spring, Henry IV returned to the field; he won significant victories at Ivry and Arques and laid siege to Paris (despite being greatly outnumbered), but a Spanish army under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma lifted the siege.