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8 unusual facts about Tourcoing


Achille Liénart

Liénart received his episcopal consecration on the following December 8 from Bishop Charles-Albert-Joseph Lecomte of Amiens, with Bishops Palmyre Jasoone and Maurice Feltin serving as co-consecrators, in Tourcoing.

Albert Roussel

Born in Tourcoing (Nord), Roussel's earliest interest was not in music but mathematics.

Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre

Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre was born in Tourcoing, and studied at the Catholic University of Lille, and the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome.

Lille tramway

The system consists of two interurban lines, connecting central Lille to the nearby communities of Roubaix and Tourcoing, and has 36 stations.

Marcel Lefebvre

On 18 September 1947 he was consecrated a bishop in his family's parish church in Tourcoing by Achille Liénart (who had previously ordained him a priest); acting as co-consecrators were Bishop Jean-Baptiste Fauret, C.S.Sp.

Risquons-Tout

It is on a national border, immediately adjacent to Neuville-en-Ferrain and Tourcoing in France, and on a regional border, adjacent to Rekkem in Flanders.

Transpole

The tram system consists of two interurban tram lines, connecting central Lille to the nearby communities of Roubaix and Tourcoing, and has 45 stops.

It links Lomme, to the west of Lille, to the Belgian border, via central Lille, the Gare de Lille-Flandres, Roubaix and Tourcoing.


Heinrich von Vietinghoff

From December 1941 to August 1943 he was Commander-in-Chief of the German Fifteenth Army in France (The HQ of the 15th Army is today a museum in Tourcoing, near Lille in northern France, Musée du 5 Juin 1944).

Hindenburg Line

Over the winter various German deception operations were conducted, indications of an offensive through Switzerland diverted French attention at the end of 1916 and the British were occupied by the movement of troops and heavy artillery into Flanders and increased agent reports from Lille, Tourcoing and Courtrai of troop movements.

Princess Altinaï of Montenegro

Princess Altinaï was educated at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture of Paris La Villette (ENSAPLV), France, Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France, 2006 and San Antonio de los Baños' International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV), Cuba.


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