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unusual facts about Pas de Calais



Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford

In 1137 or 1138 de Vere married Beatrice, the daughter of Henry, Constable of Bourbourg, and the granddaughter and heiress of Manasses, Count of Guînes in the Pas de Calais.

Ensemble Ars Nova

The ensemble is supported by the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (DRAC Poitou-Charentes, DRAC Nord-Pas de Calais), Poitou-Charentes Nord-Pas de Calais, the town of Poitiers and SACEM.

Lille Airport

Lille is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the capital of the Nord-Pas de Calais region and the prefecture of the Nord department.

Matthias de l'Obel

Mathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius (1538 – 3 March 1616) was born in Lille, Nord-Pas de Calais, France, and died at Highgate, London, England after serving as a physician to William the Silent and James I of England.

Todt Battery

The Todt Battery (Batterie Todt, in French and German) is a battery of coastal artillery built by the Germans in World War II, located in the hamlet of Haringzelle, Audinghen, near Cape Gris Nez, Pas de Calais, France.


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Antoine Busnois

While details of his early life are largely conjectural, he was probably from the vicinity of Béthune in the Pas-de-Calais, possibly the hamlet of Busnes, to which his name seems to refer.

Arthur Baker-Clack

He was at the art colony at Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France from 1910, and continued to live in the region during World War I and after.

Bram van der Stok

Bailing-out from his stricken aircraft he parachuted down safely at Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), but was immediately captured by a Wehrmacht patrol.

Calonne

Calonne-Ricouart, commune of the Pas-de-Calais department in France

Calonne-sur-la-Lys, commune of the Pas-de-Calais department in France

Chartreuse Notre-Dame des Prés

The Chartreuse Notre-Dame des Prés was a Carthusian monastery (Charterhouse) in northern France, at Montreuil, in the Diocese of Arras, now Pas-de-Calais.

Christian Duflos

Christian Duflos, is the Mayor of Fressin, Pas-de-Calais, France.

Contes

Contes, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in France

Crépy

Crépy, Pas-de-Calais, a commune of France in the Pas-de-Calais département

Edwin Dunkin

He and his younger brother, Richard (1823 – 1895) were educated at Wellington House Academy, Hampstead, and at M. Liborel's school in Guînes in the Pas de Calais.

Fritz Knoechlein

It was in his capacity as a company commander that he gained notoriety, being responsible for the 27 May 1940 massacre of British prisoners-of-war at Le Paradis in the Pas-de-Calais.

Gaston Balande

In the meantime, at the advice of his friend Rupert Bunny, Balande had moved to Étaples, a fishing port in the Pas-de-Calais, home since the 1880s to a veritable international colony of artists, including the French painters Henri Le Sidaner, Jules Adler, Francis Tattegrain and Victor-Ferdinand Bourgeois.

Geology of East Sussex

For much of its history the Weald had been slowly subsiding basin, but the growth of the Alpine Chain to the south during the Cenozoic caused a reactivation of the Variscan basement basin-bounding faults, the rocks were arched into a broad anticline which stretched across the English Channel to Northern France, the Weald–Artois anticline.

Héricourt

Héricourt, Pas-de-Calais, a commune of the Pas-de-Calais département in France

Ian Juryeff

In April 2012, he was appointed first-team trainer and technical director at minor French club, US Gonnehem from the Pas-de-Calais department.

Incourt

Incourt, Pas-de-Calais, a commune of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France

Jacquemart de Hesdin

Hesdin, the town from which he took his name, was a fortified citadel in the Pas-de-Calais, then part of Flanders and a stronghold of the Dukes of Burgundy.

Jean Mattéoli

In the beginning of 1945, as Head of Mission to the Office of the Commissioner of the Republic of Burgundy and Franche-Comté, he was, the following year, appointed Head of Mission for economic and financial issues to the Cabinet by the Administrator General of the area French occupation in Germany, Emile Laffon, when he accompanied the latter took office as President of Houillères du Bassin du Nord and Pas-de-Calais in northern France.

Jocelyn Blanchard

Jocelyn Blanchard (born 28 May 1972 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais) is a French footballer who is currently a free agent, having been released by Austria Kärnten, after the club went into liquidation in 2010.

Legionella

A team of French scientists reviewed the details of an epidemic of Legionnaires' disease that took place in Pas-de-Calais, northern France, in 2003–2004.

Leval

Leval, Nord, a commune in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France

Loïc Lantoine

Loïc Lantoine is a French singer and songwriter born in Armentières, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Louvre-Lens

"France abandoned us when the coal stopped, and we became a ghost town," said Pas-de-Calais president Daniel Percheron.

Michel Graillier

Michel Graillier was a French jazz pianist, born 18 October 1946 in Lens (Pas-de-Calais), died 11 February 2003 in Paris.

MS Nord Pas-de-Calais

Although in August, MyFerryLink on ran two vessels as Nord Pas-de-Calais was sent off for a full refit shortly before MyFerryLink began service.

MS Nord Pas-de-Calais is a freight ferry owned by Eurotunnel and operated by MyFerryLink.

MS SeaFrance Cézanne

Following the introduction of the SeaFrance Rodin in 2001 and the SeaFrance Berlioz in 2005, the SeaFrance Cézanne was relegated to freight only duties alongside the SeaFrance Nord Pas-De-Calais.

Nesle

:Not to be confused with Nesles, in the Pas-de-Calais department, or Nestlé, the corporation.

Norbert Brige

Norbert Brige (born 9 January 1964 in Angres, Pas-de-Calais) is a retired French long jumper.

Operation Acid Drop

Each raid consisted of one officer and 14 men, their targets were the beaches at Hardelot and Merlimont in the Pas-de-Calais, France with the aim of carrying out reconnaissance and if possible, to capture a German soldier.

Oppy

Oppy, Pas-de-Calais, a commune of the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France

Order of battle

Operation Quicksilver, part of the British deception plan for the Invasion of Normandy in World War II, fed German intelligence a combination of true and false information about troop deployments in Britain, causing the Germans to deduce an order of battle which suggested an invasion at the Pas-de-Calais instead of Normandy.

Percival Molson

After recovering from his wounds, he returned to the front lines with his Regiment (PPCLI) and on July 5, 1917, at the outskirts of Avion, Pas-de-Calais near Vimy Ridge in France, Captain Percival Molson was killed by a direct hit from a German howitzer.

Captain Molson is interred in the Villers Station Cemetery in Villers-au-Bois in Pas-de-Calais.

Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny

Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny was born at Fauquembergues, near Saint-Omer, in the former Artois region of France (now Pas-de-Calais), four months before the marriage of his parents, Marie-Antoinette Dufresne and Nicolas Monsigny.

Ralph Curtis

Two days later, from Bristol F.2b (A7153), Curtis and Uniacke sent an Albatros D.V out of control over Bapaume, Pas-de-Calais.

Ransart

Ransart, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in France

Rembercourt

Raimbeaucourt, a commune in the Nord department of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Richebourg

Richebourg-l'Avoué and Richebourg-Saint-Vaast, former communes of the Pas-de-Calais department, now part of Richebourg

Rouvroy

Rouvroy, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais département in France

Ruins of the Reich

Part 3 - Warsaw Ghetto, Gestapo headquarters, Pawiak Prison, Palmiry massacre site, Oskar Schindler's Deutsche Emalia Fabrika, Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Fermont, Immerhof and Hackenberg on the Maginot Line, Compiègne, tomb of Napoleon and the German submarine pens and Cross-Channel guns in Normandy and the Pas-de-Calais.

Sarton

Sarton, Pas-de-Calais, a commune of France in the department of Pas-de-Calais

SNCF Class Z 23500

They are mainly used on stopping services around the French Riviera (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), Lille (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) and Lyon (Rhône-Alpes).

Ulmus × hollandica 'Ypreau'

The word Ypreau or ypereau was first recorded in 1432 from the Pas-de-Calais area, and found its way into Cotgrave's French-English dictionary of 1611 as a name for a large-leafed elm, as distinct from the small-leaved types of Ulmus minor in northern France.

Union of Arras

The Union of Arras (Dutch: Unie van Atrecht, Spanish: Unión de Arrás) was an accord signed on 6 January 1579 in Arras (Atrecht), under which the southern states of the Netherlands, today in Wallonia and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais (and Picardy) régions in France and Belgium, expressed their loyalty to the Spanish king Philip II and recognized his Governor-General, Don Juan of Austria.

Wars of Augustus

GAUL: The Morini and Treveri tribes of Gallia Comata province (Pas-de-Calais region of NE France), rebel against Roman rule and the Suebi Germans cross the Rhine to give them support.

William Farr School

In March 2003 a French school, the College Descartes-Montaigne from Liévin near Lens, was due to send an exchange visit to the school, but this was cancelled due to all schools in the Pas-de-Calais department being told Britain was too dangerous to visit.

Yarravia

Fossils collected near Rebreuve, Pas-de-Calais Department, northern France, were named Yarravia minor by Danzé-Corsin in 1956.