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8 unusual facts about Peronne


Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth

Having served in the American War of Independence under Rochambeau, he was sent in 1789 as deputy to the States-General by the nobles of the bailliage of Péronne, Somme.

Algernon Greville

He was also present at the capture of Péronne, and soon after was appointed aide-de-camp to General Sir John Lambert.

Godfrey of Amiens

The third child in a noble family, he was taken in at a young age by his uncle, the bishop of Soissons, who sent him to be educated in a monastery close to Péronne.

Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy

With her husband, and accompanied by the Countess of Namur, Jeanne de Harcourt, Isabella then travelled through the main territories of Burgundy: from Ghent (16 January) to Kortrijk (13 February) to Lille, and then to Brussels, Arras, Péronne-en-Mélantois, Mechelen and, by mid-March Noyon, where Isabella, now pregnant, chose to rest through the spring, only leaving when Joan of Arc led a campaign against the nearby Compiègne.

Lionel Sadleir-Jackson

On 21 May 1932 he was driving near Peronne when he encountered a farm cart in the road and swerved too vigorously to avoid it, leaving the road and colliding with an electric pylon which severed the left front wheel and threw the car over.

Péronne

Peronne Goguillon (?-1679), one of the last women to have been burned at the stake for witchcraft in France

Péronne, Somme

Created in 1992, by architect Henri Ciriani, it illustrates the development of the conflict.

Saint Aimé

After being (falsely) accused, he went into exile, first to Peronne, and later to Breuil, where he died in 690.


Baldwin of Avesnes

After the Edict of Péronne and the death of his brother John, he reconciled with his mother, who sent him to Namur on a revenge expedition.

Battle of Morval

The main British attack was postponed to combine with attacks by the French Sixth Army on the village of Combles, south of Morval, which were intended to bring the Sixth Army closer to the German defences between Moislains and Le Transloy, near the Péronne–Bapaume road (N 17).

Battle of St. Quentin

Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, attack at Mont St. Quentin near Péronne by the Australian Corps in August 1918

Canal de la Somme

The Grande Somme is 120 km with 19 locks from English Channel at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme to Canal du Nord at Péronne.

Concino Concini

Then he obtained successively the governments of Amiens and of Normandy, governor of Péronne, Roye and Montdidier and, in 1613, the baton of Marshal of France.

Herbert of Vermandois

Herbert I, Count of Vermandois (c. 848/850–907), Count of Vermandois, lord of Senlis, of Peronne and of Saint Quentin, son of Pepin of Vermandois

Louis Dufresne

Louis Dufresne (18 January 1752, Champien, near Peronne – 11 October 1832) was a French ornithologist and taxidermist.

Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt

The letter is addressed to an otherwise unknown Picard countryman named Sygerus (Sigerus, Ysaerus) of Foucaucourt, possibly a friend and neighbor of the author; Foucaucourt borders on the home area of Peregrinus around Maricourt, in the present-day department of the Somme, near Péronne.


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