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6 unusual facts about Givet


Château de Hierges

The fourth covered tower, semi-circular in blue stone from Givet, is inhabited by the current owner.

Forannan

Thence he went to Walciodorus, now Wassor, between Dinant and Givet.

Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul

Born Louis-Joseph Daussoigne in Givet, he legally changed his name to Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul on 12 August 1845 when he was 55 years old.

Pierre Seron

He spent the first few years of his life in Liège then followed the work transfers of his father, an engineer, to Montreal, Canada, Libourne, France, the Bordeaux region, Givet in the Ardennes region and then returned to Liège, where Seron began his studies at the Saint-Luc school.

Rail transport in Belgium

Heer-Agimont (line from Dinant to Givet): track in situ, line closed to passengers and freight

Wolfgang Döblin

Drafted in November 1938, after refusing to be exempted from military service, he had to stay in the active Army when World War II broke out in 1939, and was quartered at Givet, in the Ardennes, as a telephone operator.


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