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"arras" Definitions
  1. a tapestry of Flemish origin used especially for wall hangings and curtains
  2. a wall hanging or screen of tapestry
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Arras went missing from Yosemite National Park more than 228 years ago.
Arras told her father that she wanted to photograph a nearby lake.
As for what happened to Arras that day, there are plenty of theories.
And there must be an arras, behind which I will be concealed and mute.
"We were disheartened," Melissa Emrey-Arras, who led the GAO's review, told NPR Thursday.
ARRAS, France (Reuters) - Eleonore Laloux has battled all her life to be treated like others.
The Germans committed atrocities against civilians in Belgium, and reduced the Cathedral of Arras to rubble.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer will moderate, with Hugh Hewitt, Dana Bash, and Telemundo's Maria Celeste Arras contributing questions.
The route starting in Arras contained the highest number of cobblestone sections since the 1980 Tour, with nearly 22 kilometers altogether.
"Many people who served were exposed to things like pesticides, smoke from oil well fires, and even depleted uranium," Emrey-Arras said.
These folks belonged to the Arras culture, a group who lived in the area during the middle period of the iron age.
We passed near other streets with names that seemed unusual to me as a child, among them: Verdun, Lens, Somme and Arras avenues.
It was leveled by the Germans in World War I, then rebuilt, and is now largely a bedroom community for the nearby regional capital, Arras.
Before arriving, I picked up a government report, an autopsy of many French provincial capitals: Agen, Limoges, Bourges, Arras, Beziers, Auxerre, Vichy, Calais and others.
At tonight's GOP debate, Telemundo's Maria Celeste Arras asked Trump if Hispanic voters' generally poor opinion of him will make him unelectable in a general election.
Telemundo News anchor Maria Celeste Arras, Salem talk radio host Hugh Hewitt and CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash will join Blitzer in questioning the candidates.
She has drawn up a list of a dozen priorities for Arras, a relatively affluent town of 40,000 people in the economically depressed northeast of France.
Timothy Egan ARRAS, France — In the springtime of 100 years ago, nations that shared a Christian heritage slaughtered one another over a few miles of mud.
"Mrs Le Pen came to take selfies for 15 minutes and then she was gone," Macron told a packed rally later in the nearby town of Arras.
It was in the afternoon on July 2411, 22013, when a group of six, plus Arras and her father, rode into Sunrise High Sierra Camp on horseback.
Sunday's Stage 9 will take riders over 15 cobbled paths scattered along 21.7 kilometers of the 156.5-kilometer course from Arras to Roubaix, near the Belgian border.
"This structure can result in borrowers being pushed into forbearance despite better options," said Melissa Emrey-Arras, an education director at the G.A.O. and a contributor to the report.
Another Belgian, Yves Lampaert, took third place after a 156.5-km ride from Arras featuring 21.7km of bone-shaking cobbled sectors, some of them featuring on the Paris-Roubaix route.
En préparant mon voyage, j'étais tombé sur un rapport du gouvernement qui s'est révélé être une sorte d'autopsie des villes de province — Agen, Limoges, Bourges, Arras, Béziers, Auxerre, Vichy, Calais, et autres.
Amiens was under siege and Arras was surrounded, but in London summer had begun and on a Saturday afternoon it was still a pleasure to take a dog for a walk in a park.
He claims to have spent 7,000 hours researching cases like Arras'—interviewing families, law enforcement, and search-and-rescue personnel; poring over newspaper archives; and submitting hundreds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
ROUBAIX (Reuters) - Australian Richie Porte has pulled out of the Tour de France after damaging his shoulder in a crash 10 kilometers into the ninth stage, a 156.5-km ride from Arras on Sunday.
Armed with a broad smile and a gritty determination, Laloux is canvassing for support in Arras, her hometown in northern France, talking up her ambitions for a cleaner town and improved access for disabled people.
At the fourth month, the library team sends a warning by certified mail stating, "If you don't bring these materials back in two weeks, we will submit it to the Economic Crimes Unit," Arras said.
Image: Anna Gowthorpe/PAIn addition to working out the various causes of death, the archaeologists are hoping to conduct DNA analysis to determine whether or not the Arras people were indigenous or migrants from Europe, including France or Germany.
N) said it would invest 17 million to make more ice cream at Arras in the north, Korean company SPC said it would create a 20 million euro factory to make frozen pastry, while Florida-based Fresh Del Monte (FDP.
The best strategy will probably be to take a deep breath and go for it as soon as the stage starts from the northern town of Arras to reach Roubaix where the "Queen of the Classics" one-day races, Paris-Roubaix, arrives in April.
AMIENS/ARRAS, France (Reuters) - Marine Le Pen set a public relations trap for rival presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday when she showed up among striking French workers at a closing factory the day he was meeting their union representatives a few miles away.
The most poignant throwback to older ways comes when a clutch of muddy village children, gleaning potatoes near Arras, burst into a chorus of "Lundi, des patates, mardi, des patates, mercredi...." With the breakdown of old community patterns, old-style organised gleaning has gone out, too.
It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there —Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras (1942) He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself an accomplice to liars and forgers.
That sentiment was reflected at the ceremony in Ottawa and at others across Canada throughout the weekend, and at the Canadian memorial at Vimy Ridge near Arras, France, on Sunday, where about 25,000 people gathered, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and relatives of those who fought in the four-day battle.
Sometimes it seems that we can tolerate good women only just as long as they serve us well as towering cake-makers, genial skivvies, languidly biddable Muses, cheeky waitresses, or useful behind-the-arras funders of art movements in the cultural vanguard, steered authoritatively and confidently into the future by men.
The Degouve-Brabant Stadium is one of the main stadiums of the city of Arras with the stadiums Pierre Bolle (Arras Football Club Féminin) and Grimaldi (Rugby club Arras). The field is used by the Arras Football club and the Women's Arras Football Club.
Domenico of Arras was a Pre-congregational saint and Bishop of Arras, France from 540AD to about 545AD.Diocese of Arras at GCatholic.org. Arras at the Catholic Encyclopedia. His feast day is 6th Feb.
Arras lace Arras lace refers to a form of pure white bobbin lace that was made at Arras, France, from the 17th to 19th centuries. It is similar to, but stronger than Lille lace. Arras also produced gold lace and a lightweight lace called mignonette.Arras lace.
Audience Award for Best Film at 18th Arras Film Festival – France. Best Director at 18th Arras Film Festival – France.
The Battle of Arras is commemorated on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw, with the inscription "ARRAS 9 V 1915".
Sparkes was killed east of Arras, France on 3 June 1917, during the Battle of Arleux. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
It was eventually bequeathed to the Spanish Habsburgs as part of the Spanish Netherlands."Arras." Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary. (2007)."Arras." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008.
Avranches MS50), "flared cross" (c.1000-1050 Arras, BM MS 559 (435), vol. 1), "spirals" (c.1000-1050 Arras, BM MS 559 (435), vol.
The Arras Open Senior Hauts de France is a men's senior (over 50) professional golf tournament on the European Senior Tour. It was held for the first time in June 2019 at Arras Golf Resort, Anzin-Saint-Aubin near Arras, France. Prize money was €200,000.
Very little was found to document the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in the Arras area."Arras", pp. 9-10. Editions des Beffrois, 1988.
These buildings, believed to be farms, were found near the municipalities of Arras, Hamblain-les-Prés and Saint-Pol."Arras", pp. 10. Editions des Beffrois, 1988.
Vedulphus was a Pre-congregational saint and Bishop of Arras, France from 545AD. He succeeded Bishop Domenico in 545AD, and when he died in 580AD the diocese of Arras was suppressed to establish Diocese of Cambrai.Diocese of Arras at GCatholic.org. His feast day is 6 February.
The diocese of Arras was restored.Deramecourt, IV. pp. 302-309. Among the bishops of Arras were Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Councillor of the emperor Charles V, Bishop of Arras from 1545 to 1562, later Archbishop of Mechelen and Viceroy of Naples; François Richardot, a celebrated preacher, Bishop of Arras from 1562 to 1575; and Monseigneur Parisis (d. 1866), who figured prominently in the political assemblies of 1848.
The south-eastern end of the Vimy Ridge the east of the ancient city of Arras. East of Arras the front line crossed farms and villages. Arras was evacuated by French forces on 29 August 1914 but reoccupied a month later. It remained in French hands throughout the war.
Arras station (French: Gare d'Arras) is a railway station serving the town Arras, Pas-de-Calais department, northern France. This station, which opened in 1846, is located on the Paris–Lille railway and Arras-Dunkirk railway and accessible from LGV Nord. The train services are operated by SNCF.
A light industrial suburb of Arras located 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Arras, at the D3 and D5 road junction. The river Crinchon flows through the town.
In September 1993, Ipswich (United Kingdom) and Arras became twin towns, and a square in the new Ipswich Buttermarket development was named Arras Square to mark the relationship.
D'Elbée Protecting the Republican Prisoners After the Vicomte Edmond Marie Félix de Boislecomte (28 April 1849, Arras - 1923, Arras) was a French painter of genre and historical scenes.
He died on February 6, 539 at Arras; that night the locals saw a luminous cloud ascend from his house, apparently carrying away Vedast’s soul. Saint Vaast of Arras“. Saints.SQPN.com. 29 January 2014. Web 14 July 2014 The Abbey of St. Vaast was later founded in his honour in Arras.
Arras – Roclincourt Airport () is an airport located in Roclincourt, northeast of Arras, both communes of the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de- Calais region of France.
A town located 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Arras at the junction of the D73, D74, D75 and D49 roads, just by the N39 Arras-Le Touquet road.
Arras Pays d'Artois is a French women's basketball team based in the city of Arras, playing in the Ligue Féminine de Basketball.Profile in eurobasket.com Formerly a section of multisports club ASPTT Arras, it became an independent club in 2008. It reached the final of the 2010-11 FIBA EuroCup, lost to Elitzur Ramla.
"Li congié" by Jean Bodel, a trouvère that lived in Arras in the 12th century Arras: tapestry representing God's conversation with Noah In 1025, a Catholic council was held at Arras against certain Manichaean (dualistic) heretics who rejected the sacraments of the Church. In 1093, the bishopric of Arras was refounded on territory split from the Diocese of Cambrai. In 1097 two councils, presided over by Lambert d'Arras, dealt with questions concerning monasteries and persons consecrated to God. In this time, Arras became an important cultural center, especially for the group of poets who came to be known as trouvères.
The Congress of Arras was a diplomatic congregation established at Arras in the summer of 1435 during the Hundred Years' War, between representatives of England, France, and Burgundy. Toward the close of the Hundred Years' War, both the Congress and the subsequent Treaty of Arras represented diplomatic failures for England and major successes for France.
Cheerful Sacrifice: The Battle of Arras 1917. Pen and Sword Books, 2005, p. 30 () focusing on Carrière Wellington, a former underground quarry in Ronville near Arras. The New Zealand Tunnelling Company had carried out a first exploration of the underground quarries in the Ronville and Saint-Sauveur districts of Arras on 5 November 1916.
Cheerful Sacrifice: The Battle of Arras 1917. Pen and Sword Books, 2005, p. 30 () focusing on Carrière Wellington, a former underground quarry in Ronville near Arras. The New Zealand Tunnelling Company had carried out a first exploration of the underground quarries in the Ronville and Saint- Sauveur districts of Arras on 5 November 1916.
The German II Cavalry Corps was stopped near Arras by the French cavalry. On 29 September, Joffre added X Corps, north of Amiens, to the French II Cavalry Corps south-east of Arras and a provisional corps (General Victor d'Urbal), which had a Reserve division in Arras and one in Lens, to a new Tenth Army.
Noreuil is situated southeast of Arras, on the D5 road.
A farming village south of Arras on the D7 road.
Rumaucourt lies about southeast of Arras, on the D19 road.
Morchies is situated southeast of Arras, on the D18 road.
Pommera is situated southwest of Arras, on the N25 road.
Récourt lies about east of Arras, on the D39 road.
Prédefin is situated northwest of Arras, on the D93 road.
Noyelette is situated west of Arras, on the D339 road.
Mingoval is situated northwest of Arras, on the D73 road.
Monchiet is situated southwest of Arras, on the D34 road.
The canton is organized around Bapaume in the arrondissement of Arras.
A farming village situated southeast of Arras, on the D18 road.
The Arras culture is an archaeological culture of the Middle Iron Age in East Yorkshire, England. It takes its name from the cemetery site of Arras, at Arras Farm, near Market Weighton, which was discovered in the 19th century. The site spans three fields, bisected by the main east-west road between Market Weighton and Beverley, and is arable farmland; little to no remains are visible above ground. The extent of the Arras culture is loosely associated with the Parisi tribe of pre-Roman Britain.
Architect Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944), of the Imperial War Graves Commission, designed the layout of the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery. He also designed the Arras Memorial and the Arras Flying Services Memorial. The cemetery was planned and constructed before the two monuments were designed. As a result, the paths of the cemetery do not align with the Arras Memorial.
Monchy was an important strategic position near to Arras during the 1914-18 war and bloody fighting ensued around the village. During the Battle of Arras it was from here that the Germans bombarded Arras and destroyed the belltower. Just outside Monchy, on the D939, a carved Vauthier Stone marks the boundary of the advancing German army during the First World War.
Gilles le Vinier (died 1252) was a trouvère from a middle-class family of Arras. He was the younger brother of fellow trouvère Guillaume le Vinier. He entered the church and served as a canon at Arras, where he was the church's legal representative between 1225 and 1234, and at Lille. At Arras he created several benefices between 1236 and 1246.
Turnbull was killed in Arras while serving as a Lance Sergeant in the Eighth Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment of the British Army. His body was never found and he is commemorated on the Arras memorial.
A small farming village situated southwest of Arras, on the D1 road.
A small farming village situated northwest of Arras on the D71 road.
A small farming village situated west of Arras, on the D104E road.
A small farming village situated northwest of Arras, on the D98 road.
A small farming village situated west of Arras, on the D82 road.
A small farming village situated south of Arras, on the D6 road.
A small farming village situated southwest of Arras, on the D24 road.
A small farming village situated south of Arras, on the D4 road.
A small farming village situated southwest of Arras, on the D6 road.
Pronville-en-Artois is situated southeast of Arras, on the D22 road.
A battery of 60-pounders deployed during the Battle of Arras, 1917.
The commune is situated on the D200 road, some southwest of Arras.
He is buried in the War Cemetery of Cambrai near Arras, France.
Despite this setback, electricity was installed and tested in the whole system beneath Arras by 3 April 1917, ready for the start of the Battle of Arras on 9 April. On the first day of the battle, the New Zealand Tunnelling Company opened three tunnels located at the end of Saint-Sauveur system, allowing infantrymen to appear suddenly in the German trenches. Owing to the German withdrawal from their front line south- east of Arras, the unit also fired the only mine that was used on the Arras front on 9 April.
In March 1864 he excavated fourteen barrows at Danes Graves a site of the Arras Culture of the British Iron Age and was subsequently criticised by William Harrison-Broadley for his poor excavation technique.Stead. I. 1979. Arras Culture.
The abbey was founded in 667. Saint Vedast, or Vaast (c. 453-540) was the first Bishop of Arras and later also bishop of Cambrai, and was buried in the old cathedral at Arras. In 667 Saint Aubert, seventh Bishop of Arras, began to build an abbey for Benedictine monks on the site of a little chapel which Saint Vedast had erected in honour of Saint Peter.
The canton is organized around Avesnes-le-Comte in the arrondissement of Arras.
The cathedral of Arras and some other churches, show particles of his relics.
Marie Delattre (born March 4, 1981 in Arras) is a French sprint canoer.
A very small farming village situated west of Arras, on the D105 road.
A very small farming village situated west of Arras, on the D117 road.
Paul Boudot (1571–1635) was bishop of Saint-Omer and bishop of Arras.
Troisvaux lies north of St. Pol, west of Arras, on the D87 road.
Having no known grave he is commemorated at the Arras Flying Services Memorial.
G. Dupont-Ferrier, Gallia Regia, vol.I, p.419. Louis XI then sent him to war with Maximilian of Austria on the front of the Netherlands. Captain of Arras from 1479 to 1482, he negotiated the treaty of Arras of 1482.
Henri-François-Marie-Pierre Derouet was a 20th-century Bishop of Arras, France from 1985 to 1998. Derouet was born on 28 November 1922 Henri Derouet. in Loire, Maine-et-Loire. He was a French prelate who was Bishop of Arras.
Arras-born lawyer and politician Maximilien de Robespierre Maximilien de Robespierre, a French lawyer and politician from Arras and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution, was elected fifth deputy of the third estate of Artois to the Estates-General in 1789. Robespierre also helped draft the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. During the French Revolution, the city of Arras was first presided over by French reformer Dubois de Fosseux, erudite squire, secretary of the Arras district (arrondissement in French) and future president of the Pas-de-Calais department. Around the same time, competing against Aire-sur-la- Lys, Calais and Saint-Omer, Arras won the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais.
No major attacks took place in the Arras sector from the end of October 1915 to April 1917, but then we see the huge Battle of Arras fought from 9 April to 17 May 1917, fighting at Hill 70 in August 1917, the "Kaiser's Battle" from 21 to 28 March 1918, the Battle of the Lys in April 1918, and the Second Battle of Arras in August 1918.
Rupprecht intended to halt the French west of Arras and envelop them around the north side of the city. On 1 October, the French attacked to the south-east, expecting only by a cavalry screen. The Germans attacked from Arras to Douai on 1 October, forestalling the French. On 3 October, Rupprecht reinforced the 6th Army north of Arras and ordered the IV Cavalry Corps from Valenciennes to Lille.
Robert de Castel (d'Arras) (fl. 1272) was a trouvère active in and around Arras in the late thirteenth century. He is mentioned in the Congés of Baude Fastoul, written in 1272, which place him Arras at that date. He is the addressee of the poem Robert du Chastel, biaus sire, a jeu parti by another trouvère of Arras, Jehan Bretel (died 1272), which was judged by another Artesian, Gaidifer d'Avion.
Robert de la Piere (died 1258) was a trouvère of the so-called "school" of Arras. In his time Robert's bourgeois family was prominent in Arras, though the earliest known member is only recorded in 1212. Robert served as a magistrate in 1255, as attested by one surviving document in the municipal archives. There is also a surviving notice of his death in the spring of 1258, at Arras.
Francky N'Guekam (born 29 June 1989) is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for Arras.
Pressy is a suburb of Pernes, situated northwest of Arras, on the D77E3 road.
Sapignies lies south of Arras, at the junction of the D31E and N17 roads.
Séricourt lies west of Arras, at the junction of the D82 and D104 roads.
Ternas lies west of Arras, at the junction of the D8 and D83 roads.
Sibiville lies west of Arras and south of St. Pol, on the D82 road.
Simencourt lies southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D7 and D67 roads.
Saulty lies southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D26 and D79 roads.
Natalie Arras Tepper (1888-1950) was an American painter of New York State scenes.
Arras-en-Lavedan is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in southwestern France.
Tincques lies west of Arras, at the junction of the N39 and D77 roads.
Valhoun lies northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D77 and D916 roads.
Vaulx lies west of Arras, at the junction of the roads D121 and C103.
He is buried at the Arras Road Cemetery in the Pas de Calais, France.
The vacant land was then designated for two monuments, the Arras Memorial and the Arras Flying Services Memorial. The Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery comprises 2,650 graves of the First World War, including 10 unidentified burials. In addition to 8 WWII burials from the United Kingdom and United States, there are 30 graves of other nationalities. The Arras Memorial commemorates nearly 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa, and New Zealand who died between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918 (the eve of the Advance to Victory) in the Arras region and who have no known grave.
On 1 October, the French at Arras were pushed back from Guémappe, Wancourt and Monchy-le-Preux, until the arrival of X Corps. By 1 October, two more French corps, three infantry and two cavalry divisions had been sent northwards to Amiens, Arras, Lens and Lille, which increased the Second Army to eight corps, along a front of . Joffre ordered Castelnau to operate defensively, while Maud'huy and the advanced on Arras. On 28 September, Falkenhayn had ordered the 6th Army to conduct an offensive by the IV, Guard and I Bavarian corps near Arras and more offensives further north.
The Arras Memorial is a World War I memorial in France, located in the Faubourg d'Amiens British Cemetery, in the western part of the town of Arras. The memorial commemorates 35,942 soldiers of the forces of the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand, with no known grave, who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918. The major battle in this area during this period was the Battle of Arras. The cut-off date of 7 August 1918 signifies the start of the Advance to Victory, and casualties after that date are listed on other memorials.
Alexander O'Hara (2018) suggested 'in around 448' at 'an unidentified site in the Artois', positing that it may be connected to the destruction of Arras around that time as well, although it is unknown whether Arras was sacked by Huns or Franks.
She then transferred to Spanish side Zaragoza CFF for the following season before moving during 2015 to the French side Inter Arras FCF. Arras has refused to release Ndiaye for a match against Guinea in the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification.
Roclincourt is north of the town of Arras, south of Lens, and approximately from Calais.
A farming village northwest of Arras at the junction of the N41 and D89 roads.
A farming village located 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Arras, on the D90 road.
A farming village located 13 miles (21 km) west of Arras on the D78 road.
A farming village located 25 miles (40 km) west of Arras on the D109 road.
A farming village located 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Arras on the D71 road.
A small village located 12 miles (19 km) east of Arras on the D44 road.
A farming village located 7 miles (11 km) south of Arras on the D919 road.
A small farming village located 12 miles (20 km) northwest of Arras on the D74.
A farming village located 14 miles (22 km) southwest of Arras on the D8 road.
A farming village located 7 miles (11 km) south of Arras on the D32 road.
A farming village located 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Arras on the D34 road.
A farming village located 7 miles (11 km) south of Arras on the D35 road.
A farming village located 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Arras on the D18E road.
Marquay is situated northwest of Arras, on the D81 road, to the east of St.Pol.
Pommier is situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D8 and D30 roads.
Penin is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D77 and D82 roads.
Ostreville is situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D81 and D86 roads.
Situated between Amiens to the southwest and Arras to the north, on the D73 road.
Ransart is situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D7 and D3 roads.
Moyenneville is situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D32 and C4 roads.
Neuville-Vitasse situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D14 and D5 roads.
Neuvireuil is situated northeast of Arras, at the junction of the D46 and D48 roads.
Sauchy-Lestrée lies southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D21E and D15 roads.
Sombrin lies southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D59, D80 and D79 roads.
Souastre lies southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D2, D6 and D23 roads.
Villers-Brûlin lies northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D76 and D77E1 roads.
Villers-Châtel is situated some northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D73E road.
The town was granted a commercial charter by the French crown in 1180 and became an internationally important location for banking and trade. The wool industry of Arras, established in the 4th century, became of great importance during the Middle Ages. Already in the third century Romans had lauded about the quality of wool from Tournai and Arras. By the eleventh century Arras was the leading city and trading hub of the wool industry.
Arras is located in northern France in the Hauts-de-France region. Hauts-de-France is divided into five departments: Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Somme, Oise, Aisne. Arras is in the south-east part of the Pas-de-Calais department and forms the Arras district (arrondissement d'Arras) in the Artois, a former province of northern France. By car, it is north of Paris, east of the English Channel, south of Brussels, and south of Amsterdam.
Two rivers flow through Arras: the Scarpe and the Crinchon, both left tributaries of the 350-kilometer-long Scheldt river (L'Escaut in French). The Crinchon is a rather small river of flowing through Arras underground, while the Scarpe is long, of which two-thirds has been turned into canals. The source of the Scarpe is at Berles-Monchel near Aubigny-en-Artois. It flows through the cities of Arras, Douai and Saint-Amand-les-Eaux.
On 5 May 1917, the New Zealand Tunnelling Company began early development of tunnels beneath German trenches located between Gavrelle and Roeux east of Arras. After the end of the Battle of Arras in May 1917, the unit focused mainly on creating deep dugouts beneath British trenches, which was continued into the winter months. On 5 November 1917, the unit witnessed the explosion of a damage ammunition stock at Wanquetin, some west of Arras.
Adam de Givenchi (fl. 1230-1268) was a trouvère, probably from Givenchy and active in and around Arras. His surname is also spelled Givenci, Gevanche, or Gievenci. Adam appears in charters of May and July 1230 as a clerk of the Bishop of Arras.
Jehan Erart (or Erars) (c.1200/10-1258/9) was a trouvère from Arras, particularly noted for his favouring the pastourelle genre. He has left behind eleven pastourelles, ten grand chants, and one serventois. Erart's presence at Arras can be deduced from his own writings.
A farming village situated northeast of Arras, at the junction of the D50 and D51 roads.
A farming village situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D36E and D10E roads.
A farming village situated north of Arras at the junction of the N17 and D60 roads.
A farming village situated southeast of Arras at the junction of the N43 and D21 roads.
A farming village situated northwest of Arras at the junction of the D70 and D71 roads.
A farming village situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D916 and D183 roads.
A farming village situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D34 and D36 roads.
A farming village situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D77 and D92 roads.
A farming village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D66 and D34 roads.
A farming village situated east of Arras, at the junction of the D956 and D45 roads.
Liencourt is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D339 and the D79 roads.
A small farming village located 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Arras on the D88 road.
A small farming village west of Arras at the junction of the D81 and D79E roads.
A small farming village located 28 miles (47 km) northwest of Arras on the D98 road.
A small farming village located 18 miles (28 km) west of Arras on the D23 road.
Linzeux is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D101 and the D109 roads.
Marest is situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D89 and the D916 roads.
Noyelle-Vion is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D75 and D78 roads.
Manin is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D8 and the D78 roads.
Pierremont is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D99 and the N39 roads.
Oppy is situated northeast of Arras, at the junction of the D33, D48 and D50 roads.
Riencourt-lès-Bapaume lies south of Arras, at the junction of the D11E and N17 roads.
Riencourt-lès-Cagnicourt lies southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D13 and D83 roads.
Puisieux is situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D919, D27 and D6 roads.
Montenescourt is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D61 and the D56 roads.
Martinpuich is situated south of Arras, near the junction of the D929 and the D6 roads.
Mercatel is situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D34 and the N17 roads.
Savy-Berlette lies northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D74, D76 and D82 roads.
Humerœuille us situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D10 and the C101 roads.
A small farming village west of Arras at the junction of the D103 and D104 roads.
A farming village situated southeast of Arras at the junction of the D956 and D5 roads.
Tilloy-lès-Hermaville lies west of Arras, at the junction of the D75 and D78 roads.
Vacquerie-le-Boucq lies west of Arras, at the junction of the D941 and D115 roads.
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma The Treaty of Arras of 17 May 1579 was a peace treaty concluded between the Spanish Crown, represented by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, and representatives of the County of Hainaut, the County of Artois, and the cities of Douai, Lille, Orchies and Arras, all members of the Union of Arras, that had been formed the previous January, at the Abbey of St Vaast in Arras. It was a separate peace that formally ended the state of war that had existed between these entities during the Eighty Years' War. The provinces that had formed the Union of Utrecht continued the war.
During World War I Thomson served in the Royal Engineers as a Second Lieutenant. Following the Battle of Arras he produced some poignant works on-the-spot and was able to record troops moving near Arras by the shattered façade of the Abbey of Mont St Eloi.
Arras was transferred to the Department of Marine and Fisheries in 1920. and was deployed as a fisheries protection ship on the Atlantic coast.Maginley and Collin, pp. 91, 113 Arras often served as the hospital ship for the fishing fleet on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras (–Boulogne–Saint-Omer) (Latin: Dioecesis Atrebatensis (–Bononiena–Audomarensis); French: Diocèse d'Arras (–Boulogne–Saint-Omer)) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The episcopal see is the Arras Cathedral, in the city of Arras. The diocese encompasses all of the Department of Pas-de-Calais, in the Region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The most significant jurisdictional changes all occurred during the Napoleonic wars.
Rémy lies in the valley of the Sensée river, some southeast of Arras, on the D9 road.
Price, having no known grave, is commemorated at the Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
A farming village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D1 and the D8 roads.
A farming village situated south of Arras at the junction of the N17, D36 and D9 roads.
A farming village situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D9 and the C2 road.
A farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D102 and the D102E roads.
Wanquetin is situated some west of Arras, at the junction of the D59 and the D7 roads.
Warlus is situated some southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D59 and the D62 roads.
Wailly is situated some southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D3 and the C1 roads.
Willerval is situated some north of Arras, at the junction of the D50 and the D50E1 roads.
A farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D109, D103 and D102 roads.
A farming village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D7 and the D20 roads.
A farming village situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D36 and the D12 roads.
A farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D66 and the D68 roads.
A farming village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D27 and the D28 roads.
A farming village situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D33 and the D5 roads.
A farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D54 and the D74 roads.
A farming village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D3 and the D8 roads.
Haute-Avesnes is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the N39 and the D62 roads.
A farming village located 12miles (19 km) west of Arras, at the D8 and D54 road junction.
A village located 28 miles (42 km) northwest of Arras at the D94 and D71 road junction.
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Sailly-au-Bois lies about south of Arras, at the junction of the D3 and D23 roads.
Sailly-en-Ostrevent lies about east of Arras, at the junction of the D39 and D43 roads.
Monts-enTernois is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D23 and the D82 roads.
Quœux-Haut-Maînil is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D101 and D117 roads.
Neuville-au-Cornet is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D85 and D83 roads.
Nœux-lès-Auxi is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D17 and D117 roads.
Noyelles-sous-Bellonne is situated east of Arras, at the junction of the D44 and D44E roads.
Maizières is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D8, D81 and the D82 roads.
Monchy-Breton is situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D77 and the D86 roads.
Monchy-Cayeux is situated northwest of Arras, in the Ternoise river valley and on the D343 road.
Le Sars is situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D11 and the D929 roads.
A farming village situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D99 and the D70E4 roads.
This canton is centred on the town of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise in the arrondissement of Arras.
Le Thieuloye is situated northwest of Arras, near the junction of the D77 and the N41 road.
Villers-l'Hôpital is situated some southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D114 and D116 roads.
Vélu is situated some southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D18 and the D18E roads.
Le Transloy is situated south of Arras, at the junction of the N17 and the D19 roads.
The battle honour Defence of Arras was awarded to the British units involved in the counter- attack.
Saint- Nicolas is a large suburb of Arras, on the banks of the Scarpe river, just north of the centre of Arras, at the junction of the D41, D63 and N17 roads. Lipperode, a part of Lippstadt, in Germany is the twin town of St-Nicolas-lez- Arraz.
Wade was killed at Oppy Wood, near Arras on 28 April 1917, whilst serving as a Lieutenant in 17th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment, on temporary attachment to a trench mortar battery. He was 32 years of age and has no known grave, being commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
At Robert's death they passed to his sister, Anne-Marie de Melun, who was married to Lamoral de Ligne. Pierre de Melun was the leading figure in the rebel response to the reconciliation of the Walloon nobility of the Union of Arras in the Treaty of Arras (1579).
On 17 December 1120 Elvira sold the estate at Fuentes de los Oteros which she had received as arras (a bridal gift). The couple had separated by 1121, when Fernando married again, to Sancha González.He granted arras to his second wife on 16 April 1121, cf. Barton, 236–37.
Gautier d'Arras (died c. 1185, Arras) was a Flemish or French trouvère. He is called Galterus attrebatensis or Walterus de Altrebat in many contemporary Latin documents, the first of which dates from 1160, where he is mentioned as a property owner in Arras (Atrebatum in Latin). Gautier appears to have been a knight of Arras who between 1160 and 1170 held many important fiefs of St. Vaast's Abbey and between 1166 and 1185 was an official at the court of Philip of Flanders.
Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter IV.Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter V. The attack (the Battle of Arras) was made on 21 May, but 150th Bde was not involved, being sent to strengthen the garrison of Arras and to hold the line of the River Scarpe. It carried out a raid across the river during the day.Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter VI. As the Germans continued to move west, behind the BEF, Arras was becoming a dangerous salient, and 150th Bde came under attack on 23 May.
In Ludendorff's words, the battle of Arras was a "black day for the German army." After their breakthrough at Amiens, the Canadians were shifted back to Arras and given the task of cracking the Hindenburg Line in the Arras area. Between August 26 and September 2, the Canadian Corps launched multiple attacks near the German front at Canal du Nord. On September 27, 1918, the Canadian Corps broke through the Hindenburg Line by smashing through a dry section of the Canal du Nord.
A small farming village located 8 miles (13 km) south of Arras at the junction of the D5 and D9 roads. Many of the residents commute to work in Arras or the town of Bapaume to the south. The village is bypassed to the north and east by the LGV Nord high speed line and the A1 Autoroute. The junction with the Angy branch of the LGV Nord, in the direction of Arras, is located to the north of Croisilles.
A farming village located 4 miles (6 km) west of Arras, at the D62 and D56 road junction.
A farming village located 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Arras, at the D3 and D60 road junction.
A farming village located 13 miles (21 km) south of Arras, at the D27 and D9 road junction.
A small farming village situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D939 and the D9 roads.
Vis-en-Artois is situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D939 and the D9 roads.
There are 20,198 males (47%) for 22,474 females (53%). The Arras metropolitan area has a population of 124,200.
A farming village situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D3, D6 and the D28 roads.
Warlencourt-Eaucourt is situated some south of Arras, at the junction of the D929 and the D10E roads.
A small farming village situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D93 and the D94 roads.
A small farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D101 and the D124 roads.
A small farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D115 and the D115E roads.
A small farming village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D59 and the D66 roads.
A small farming village situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D8 and the D8E roads.
A small farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D916 and the D102E roads.
A farming village situated south-southeast of Arras, at the junction of the N30 and the D7E roads.
A small farming village situated northeast of Arras, at the junction of the D919 and the D33 roads.
Hendecourt-lès-Cagnicourt is situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D38 and the D956 roads.
A small farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D8 and the D77 roads.
A small farming village situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D9 and the C9 roads.
A small farming village situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D34 and the D38 roads.
A small farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D339 and the D7 roads.
A small farming village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D26 and the N25 road.
In Behind the Arras (2019) Deborah Defoe proposed that Thomas Cecil was the actual author of Shakespeare's works.
A farming village situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D18, D14 and the D5 roads.
Lignereuil surrounded by woodland, situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D81 and the D77 roads.
Ligny-Saint-Flochel is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D81 and the D83 roads.
A small farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D66 and the D339 roads.
Nuncq-Hautecôte is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D109, D111, D104 and D916 roads.
Neuville-Bourjonval is situated southeast of Arras, on the D7E road. The A2 autoroute passes through the commune.
Metz-en-Couture is situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D7 and the D17 roads.
Moncheaux-lès-Frévent is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D82 and the D23 roads.
Siracourt lies west of Arras and west of St.Pol, near the junction of the D100 and N39 roads.
A farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the N39, D105 and the D98 roads.
A small farming village situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D88 and the D86 roads.
Kolodziejczak was born on 1 October 1991 in Arras, France, to a Polish father and a Martiniquais mother.
Villers-lès-Cagnicourt is situated some southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D939 and D13 roads.
Villers-Sir-Simon is situated some west of Arras, at the junction of the D77 and D54 roads.
Villers-au-Flos is situated some south of Arras, near the junction of the D11 and N17 roads.
The 7 arrondissements of the Pas-de-Calais department are: # Arrondissement of Arras, (prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department: Arras) with 357 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 248,929 in 2016. # Arrondissement of Béthune, (subprefecture: Béthune) with 104 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 293,991 in 2016.
It is the name of a ridge, basilica, and French national cemetery northwest of Arras at the village of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire. The high point of the hump- backed ridge stands 165 metres high and – with Vimy Ridge – utterly dominates the otherwise flat Douai plain and the town of Arras.
A farming village located 6 miles (9 km) south of Arras, at the D4, D7 and D35 road junction.
Immediately upon his death, in 1841, Cambrai once more became an archbishopric, with the diocese of Arras as suffragan.
Croisette is located 24 miles (37 km) west of Arras at the junction of the D101 and D104 roads.
Rambeloson has played for Red Star B,Tourcoing and Arras. He made his international debut for Madagascar in 2017.
Le Roi!... - "But who then dares to follow me here? The King!..."). He hides behind a tapestry (arras). 14\.
A very small farming village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D25 and the D25E roads.
Grand-Rullecourt is a farming village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D74 and D79 roads.
Grévillers is a farming village situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D10 and three small roads.
A village located 2 miles (3 km) east of Arras at the junction of the D37 and D42 roads.
A farming village located 7 miles (11 km) south of Arras on the N17 junction with the D35 road.
A farming village located 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Arras on the D8, D26 and D59 road junction.
A farming village located 11 miles (17 km) southwest of Arras on the D62 junction with the D30 road.
Boiry-Notre-Dame is a farming village located 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Arras on the D34 road.
A village located 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Arras at the junction of the D90 and D91 roads.
Roëllecourt lies just outside Saint- Pol, some west of Arras, at the junction of the D8 and N39 roads.
Magnicourt-en-Comte is situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D83, D86 and the D74 roads.
Monchy-au-Bois is situated south- southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D3 and the D2 roads.
Sars-le-Bois lies on the banks of the river Canche, some west of Arras, on the D79E road.
Tilly-Capelle lies in the Ternoise valley, northwest of Arras, near the junction of the D94 and D97 roads.
Humbercamps is a farming village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D26 and the D30 roads.
Hermies is a farming village situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D5 and the D19 roads.
Rhys-Davids has no known grave but his name is engraved on the Air Services Memorial at Arras, France.
Fighting in the southern sector (the Battle of Arras) continued into May.Farndale, pp. 164–6, 174–6, Map 23.
Frontline at Arras immediately prior to the assault. From the Middle Ages through to the 19th century, the chalk beds underneath Arras were extensively quarried to supply stone for the town's buildings. The quarries fell into disuse by the start of the 20th century. In 1916, during the First World War, the British forces controlling Arras decided to re-use the underground quarries to aid a planned offensive against the Germans, whose trenches ran through what are now the eastern suburbs of the town.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 7 June 2012 Orris is another term for gold or silver bobbin lace, derived from the word Arras. The lace of Arras reached its peak during 1804 to 1812 and then declined. In 1851, there were 8,000 lace-makers in a radius of eight miles round the city.
Although the Allies initially made gains, they were repulsed by German forces and forced to withdraw to avoid encirclement. Arras was then occupied by the Germans and 240 suspected French Resistance members were executed in Arras citadel. On 3 September 1944, the city was entered and liberated by the British Guards Armoured Division.
Arras tapestry of about 1410 (the dog and rabbits signify lust) A further vehicle of the International Gothic style was provided by the tapestry-weaving centers of Arras, Tournai and Paris,This paragraph follows Roger-Armand Weigert, French Tapestry (1956, translated by Donald and Monique King, 1962). Secondary centres mentioned by Weigert are Lille, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Enghien, Oudenaarde and Brussels where tapestry production was permanently disordered by the English occupation of 1418–36. Under the consistent patronage of the Dukes of Burgundy,Arras was attached to the Burgundian inheritance in 1384 and captured by Louis XI in 1470, after which Arras rapidly declined as a tapestry-weaving centre. their courtly International Gothic style, elongated figures, rich details of attire, crowded composition, with figures disposed in tiers, owe their inspiration to manuscript illuminators and directly to painters: Baudouin de Bailleul, a painter established at Arras, supplied cartoons for tapestry workshops there and at Tournai, where elements of a local style are hard to distinguish (Weigert, p. 44).
The road, D94 follows the river between St.Pol and Hesdin. Alongside it runs the Arras to Boulogne-sur-Mer railway.
A farming village located 9 miles (15 km) northwest of Arras at the junction of the D341 with the D73E.
A farming village located 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Arras at the junction of the D75 with the D73E.
Toavina Rambeloson (born 26 November 1992) is a Malagasy international footballer who plays for French club Arras, as a defender.
His remains are now located in Villers Station Cemetery, Plot XI, Row B, Grave 23, 11 kilometres northwest of Arras.
Gaudiempré is a small farming village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D23 and the D1 roads.
A small farming village situated southeast of Arras, on the D33 road and just yards away from the A1 autoroute.
During the First World War the Battery saw action at Mons, Hooge, Arras, Bethume, Le Cateau, Cambrai and Le Basse.
A village located 7 miles (12 km) north-east of Arras at the junction of the N919 and D50 roads.
A farming village located 9 miles (14 km) south of Arras at the junction of the D7 and D919 roads.
A farming village located 18 miles (28 km) northeast of Arras at the junction of the N39 and D83 roads.
A farming village located 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Arras at the junction of the D49 and D919 roads.
A farming village located 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Arras at the junction of the D86E and D86E1 roads.
A farming village located 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Arras at the junction of the N30 and D20 roads.
A farming village located 6 miles (10 km) south of Arras at the junction of the D35 and D36 roads.
A farming village located 26 miles (41 km) west of Arras at the junction of the D115 and D114 roads.
A farming village located 11 miles (18 km) south of Arras at the junction of the D31 and the D7.
A farming village located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Arras at the junction of the D13 with the D14E.
A village located 33 miles (52 km) southwest of Arras at the junction of the D117 with the D938 road.
Bugnicourt is a commune in the Nord department in northern France, located south east of Douai and east of Arras.
Milne is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial for airmen lost on the Western Front with no known grave.
A very small village, situated on the junction of the D23 and D129 roads, about halfway between Arras and Amiens.
Ramecourt is a suburb of Saint-Pol, situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D101 and D102 roads.
Oisy-le-Verger is a farming village situated east of Arras, at the junction of the D21 and D14 roads.
A small farming village located 9 miles (15 km) southeast of Arras on the D9 junction with the D38 road.
He died at Arras in November 1737, and was succeeded by his son. His grandson was Gérard de Lally- Tollendal.
Fraser married a British soldier in 1919 after he served in the First World War. They settled in Arras, France.
This prominence would eventually shift towards areas north of Arras, and cities such as Lille, Douai and Saint- Omer, followed by Ypres and eventually Bruges would become the centres of the wool industry and trade. However, by the 14th century Arras still was renowned and drew considerable wealth from the cloth and wool industry, and was particularly well known for its production of fine tapestries—so much so that in English and Italian the word Arras (Arazzi in Italian) was adopted to refer to tapestries in general. The patronage of wealthy cloth merchants ensured that the town became an important cultural center, with major figures such as the poet Jean Bodel and the trouvère Adam de la Halle making their homes in Arras.
Maistre Guibert Kaukesel or Hubert Chaucesel (fl. c. 1230–55) was a trouvère from Arras, where he is named as a canon in a document of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame in 1250. His title indicates he was probably a Master of Arts. He was a member of the literary circle active at Arras mid-century.
Arras was named for the Battle of Arras and constructed by Canadian Vickers at Montreal, launching on 15 September 1917.Macpherson and Barrie, p. 28Johnston et al., p. 484 Intended for use during the 1917 shipping season, the construction of the vessels was delayed by the entry of the United States into the war.
Like its parent unit, 2/1st Lowland Hvy Bty in 39th HAG fired in support of VII Corps in the Arras offensive (see above). After Arras, 2/1st Lowland Hvy Bty moved back to 35th HAG on 30 May, to 58th on 9 June, and then on 16 June it returned to 39th HAG.
Aveneau entered the novitiate in Paris in 1669. In 1671 he began teaching at the Jesuit college in Arras. After seven years at Arras, he studied philosophy for a year at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris and then studied theology for four years at Bourges. He was ordained a priest there in 1683.
The Arras Tunnel viewed from the south. In September 2014, the bypass was moved into the new cut-and-cover Arras Tunnel between the Basin Reserve and Taranaki Street, removing the Tory Street intersection. The space above the tunnel was used for the Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, and the name of the tunnel was chosen to honour the efforts of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company in the French town of Arras during the First World War. The tunnel walls are decorated with 273 decorative poppies as a further memorial.
Ancre Heights: Another successful defensive battle fought by the 10th Battalion, during the Somme Campaign, near the town of Albert, France. Modest casualties were suffered during the action on 10–11 September 1916. Arras, 1917: The Arras battles refer to the overall British offensives in that area of Northern France, the first battle (in 1917) of which included the dramatic Canadian capture of Vimy Ridge. The 10th Battalion fought in the Arras battles of 1917 and 1918 though the official battle honour only reflects the 1917 battles (see footnote).
From September 1793 to July 1794, during the Reign of Terror, the city was under the supervision of Joseph Lebon who implemented food restrictions, ordered 400 executions and destroyed several religious monuments including the Arras Cathedral and the Abbey of St. Vaast. Arras' demography and economic activity remained the same throughout the French Revolution while Lille's grew exponentially. In 1898, under the influence of Mayor Émile Legrelle, some of Arras' ramparts were demolished to build vast boulevards, establish a new sewage system and replace the old railway station from 1846.
They repaired the broken structures, namely the walls and gates, and began looking towards the peace conference at Arras for help from their allies. On 21 September, the Duke of Burgundy signed the Treaty of Arras with the disputed French king Charles VII, by which he permanently abandoned his English allies. Despite their overlord severing ties with England in the middle of the siege, the Burgundian contingent in the besieging army would stay until the end. Upon the conclusion of the Congress of Arras, the French constable, Arthur de Richemont, went to Senlis.
Edwin Edward Hunnisett is commemorated on a headstone at Newhaven Cemetery in Newhaven, East Sussex, England.The War Graves Photographic Project - Hunnisett - Newhaven Cemetery However, the British aviator is also represented on a second cenotaph, the Arras Flying Services Memorial, at the Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France.The War Graves Photographic Project - Hunnisett - Arras Flying Services Memorial There are two additional memorials which acknowledge the contribution of Serjeant Mechanic Hunnisett. One is the Newhaven War Memorial, which is located in the park adjacent to Newhaven Harbor in Newhaven, East Sussex, England.
The wetlands on either side of the Wolds in the River Hull valley, Holderness and the Vale of York were also being used for animal rearing at this time. In the Iron Age there were further cultural changes in the area. There emerged a distinctive local tradition known as the Arras Culture, named after a site at Arras, near Market Weighton. There are similarities between the chariot burials of the Arras Culture and groups of La Tene burials in northern Europe, where the burial of carts was also practised.
Three German corps attacked from Arras to Douai on 1 October, forestalling the French. From costly German attacks were made on Beaurains, Mercatel and the Arras suburbs of St. Laurent- Blangy and St. Nicolas, which were repulsed and Lens fell. German attacks were made from the north of Arras to reach the Scarpe but were eventually repulsed by the X Corps. By 4 October, German troops had also reached Givenchy-en- Gohelle and on the right flank of the French to the south, several Territorial divisions were separated from X Corps.
Gazet was born in Arras, then part of the Habsburg Netherlands (now in France), in 1554. Around 1580 he was appointed parish priest of the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Arras, and later became a canon of the collegiate church of Saint-Pierre in Aire-sur-la- Lys while retaining his position as parish priest. He died in Arras on 25 August 1612 and was buried in his parish church there.Jean-Pierre Niceron, Mémoires pour servir à lʹhistoire des homme illustres dans la Republique des Lettres, vol.
Jean du Plessis-Pasté, a French prelate of the 14th century, Bishop of Arras and Chartres. A native of the île-de-France, Jean du Plessis-Paste was son of Thomas Pasté and Gilles. He became Canon at Laon, then Paris, Beauvais, and Arras, Dean of the Chartres and an Advisor to the King. He was elected Bishop of Arras in 1326 and in 1328 was transferred to the Diocese of Chartres where in 1329 he performed the marriage of Jean, Duke of Brittany, with Jeanne of Flanders in the Cathedral of Chartres.
Vaulx-Vraucourt lies southeast of Arras and about northeast of Bapaume, at the junction of the D20, D10E and D36 roads.
Courcelles-le-Comte is located 11 miles (17 km) south of Arras at the junction of the D12 and D32 roads.
A small farming village located 20 miles (32 km) west of Arras at the junction of the D53 with the D84.
A small farming village located 10 miles (16 km) south of Arras at the junction of the D7 and D7E1 roads.
A village located 16 miles (26 km) west of Arras on the D79 road, in the valley of the river Canche.
A farming village located 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Arras at the junction of the N25 with the D7 road.
A suburban town located 3 miles (5 km) south of Arras at the junction of the N17 with the D5 road.
A farming village located 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Arras on the D16 road, just yards from the A26 autoroute.
A farming village located 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Arras on the D23 road, at the junction with the D83.
A farming village located 12 miles (19 km) south of Arras on the D919 road, at the junction with the D8.
A farming village located 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Arras on the D14 road, at the junction with the D19.
A farming village located 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Arras on the N41 road, at the junction with the D81.
A small farming village located 19 miles (30 km) west of Arras at the junction of the D81 and D81E roads.
A very small farming village situated southeast of Arras, on the D19E road, just a few yards from the A2 autoroute.
Rivière is a farming and light industrial village southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D7, D30 and D34 roads.
Rebreuviette lies on the banks of the river Canche, west of Arras, at the junction of the D53 and D339 roads.
Teneur lies northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D97 and D94 roads, by the banks of the river Ternoise.
Inchy-en-Artois is a farming village situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D19 and the D22 roads.
Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines lies on the south-eastern side of Arras, at the junction of the N39, D34 and D60 roads.
Tollent lies on the banks of the river Authie, west of Arras, at the junction of the D101 and D119 roads.
He is commemorated at the Arras Memorial, France. He died unmarried and without issue. # Barbara Bindon (b. 1903, India, d. 1973).
A farming village located 22 miles (36 km) southeast of Arras at the junction of the D7, D18 and D19 roads.
A farming and light industrial suburb west of Arras at the junction of the N25 with the D60 and D59 roads.
Donovan Makoma (born 1 February 1999) is a French professional footballer who last played for French club Arras, as a midfielder.
Fighting in the southern sector (the Battle of Arras) continued into May.Farndale, Western Front, pp. 164–6, 174–6, Map 23.
The Hôtel de Ville is a historic building in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, northern France. It was built in the sixteenth century, and completed in 1517.Camille Enlart, Arras avant la guerre, Paris: H. Laurens, 1916, p. 16 It was restored in the nineteenth century, and re-dedicated on August 26, 1867 by Emperor Napoleon III.
Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery Nelson was killed on 9 April 1917 on the first day of the Battle of Arras in World War I He was killed by a stray shell. He had been on the front for 18 months. He is buried in Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, near Arras, grave reference VII.G.26,"Captain Nelson, Thomas Arthur", CWGC.
Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was born on 7 January 1852 in Lisbourg, Pas-de-Calais, in the diocese of Arras. He attended the college of Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, for his secondary education. He entered the Grand Seminary of Arras in 1871. He was inspired by a visit of Father Félix Charmetant(fr) and decided to become a missionary.
The Communauté urbaine d'Arras is the communauté urbaine, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Arras. It is located in the Pas-de-Calais department, in the Hauts-de-France region, northern France. It was created in January 1998, replacing the previous district urbain d'Arras. Its population was 110,169 in 2014, of which 42,161 in Arras proper.
Raoul de Neuville (died March 26, 1221) was a 13th-century French cardinal, diplomat, and Bishop of Arras. Little is known of his life or episcopal work. He was born in Rhône-Alpes, France,and studied Law. Pope Innocent III made him a cardinal in the consistory of 1202, and he was elected Bishop of Arras in 1203.
Evidence of chariot burials in England begins about 300 BC and is mostly confined to the Arras culture associated with the Parisii.
The road crosses the A2 and the A1 again before reaching the town of Bapaume. The road then continues north to Arras.
A small village located 30 miles (50 km) west-northwest of Arras at the junction of the D104 with the D99 road.
Izel-lès-Hameau is a farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D54, D75 and the D78 roads.
In September 2016, an English language version was approved and placed in the English Order of Celebrating Matrimony along with the arras.
Ligny-Thilloy is situated just southwest of Bapaume and south of Arras, at the junction of the D10 and the D10E roads.
Noted writer and reconnaissance pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry flew this aircraft before the fall of France.St. Exupery: Flight to Arras, 1942.
Bailleulmont is a farming village located 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Arras at the junction of the D1 and D66 roads.
A small farming village located 13 miles (21 km) south of Arras on the N17 road, at the junction with the D31.
A farming village located 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Arras on the D89 road, in the valley of the Clarence river.
A farming village located 20 miles (32 km) west of Arras on the D329 road, by the banks of the river Canche.
A small farming town located 11 miles (17 km) west of Arras at the junction of the D8, D75 and D339 roads.
Sachin lies in the valley of the Clarence river, some northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D70E6 and D70 roads.
Palluel is situated east of Arras, at the junction of the D21 and D13 roads, in the valley of the river Sensée.
Nédon is situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D69 and D90E roads, in the valley of the river Nave.
Nédonchel is situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D69 and D90 roads, in the valley of the river Nave.
1 (Arras, Commission départementale des Monuments historiques, 1877), p. 166. He was the brother of the poet and ecclesiastical historian Guillaume Gazet.
A farming village located 13 miles (22 km) west-northwest of Arras at the junction of the D77 with the D72 road.
Irles is situated on the D163 road, some south of Arras, near the border with the département of the Pas-de-Calais.
Villers-au-bois is surrounded by woodland and situated some northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D65 and D58 roads.
Yvonne Patrice Leuko Chibosso (born 20 November 1991), known as Yvonne Leuko, is a Cameroonian football defender, currently playing for Arras FCF.
The site of the Arras cemetery is about long and some 100 barrows were identified, four of which contained chariot burials.Curator of Archaeology, Yorkshire Museum, lecture 4 March 2014 The name of the site lends itself to the culture, archaeologically based around chariot burials, across North and East Yorkshire. Other sites that are part of the Arras culture are so named because of the prevalence of cart-burials (two wheels) and / or wagon-burials (four wheels) or small finds similar to those from Arras which are otherwise rare or unique in the British Iron Age. Other sites of similar La Tène period burials within the Arras culture, often with chariot burials include: Cawthorn Camps, Pexton Moor, Seamer, Hunmanby, Burton Fleming, Danes Graves, Garton, Wetwang, Middleton on the Wolds, Beverley and Hornsea.
Fighting continued in the Arras sector for VI Corps until the middle of May.Becke, Pt 4, pp. 171–4.Farndale, Western Front, pp.
Arras's Basilique-Cathédrale Notre-Dame et Saint-Vaast is the cathedral, a minor basilica, episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras.
Fighting in the southern sector (the Battle of Arras) continued into May.Farndale, Western Front, pp. 164–6, 174–6, Map 23.Cave, pp.
A farming village situated southeast of Arras, on the D9 road. The A26 autoroute passes by about half a mile from the village.
A farming village situated east of Arras, on the D42 road. The A1 autoroute passes by the village about half a mile away.
A farming village southeast of Arras at the junction of the D956 and D9E roads. The A26 autoroute closely passes by the village.
A farming and light industrial village located 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Arras at the junction of the D2, D8 and D62.
It is located 23 miles (37 km) west of Arras on the D84E1, which forms part of the border with the Somme department.
A small farming suburb (of Bapaume), located 11 miles (17 km) south of Arras at the junction of the D7 and D929 roads.
News arrived that the French fleet had been annihilated during the naval encounter at Sluys, with the French army then retreating to Arras.
Rebreuve-sur-Canche lies on the banks of the river Canche, west of Arras, at the junction of the D84 and D339 roads.
A farming village situated southeast of Arras at the junction of the D13 and D19 roads in a landscape of woods and lakes.
Lucheux is situated on the D5 road, some southwest of Arras, near the border with the neighbouring département of the Pas-de-Calais.
Cacheux was born on 6 January 1687 in Cambrai (Dutch: Kamerijk), North-France. He died in Arras (Dutch: Atrecht) on 11 July 1738.
The ownership of the town was repeatedly disputed along with the rest of Artois. During the Middle Ages, possession of Arras passed to a variety of feudal rulers and fiefs, including the County of Flanders, the Duchy of Burgundy, the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg and the French crown. In 1430, Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc in French), was imprisoned in the region of Arras. The town was the site of the Congress of Arras in 1435, an unsuccessful attempt to end the Hundred Years' War that resulted in the Burgundians breaking their alliance with the English.
Uncertainty about supporting an Allied attack south or a retreat north, led to a dawn attack by the Battles of 88 Squadron around Douai and Arras being cancelled. To prevent an Allied retreat to Dunkirk being cut off, bombing of German forces to the north-west of Arras was substituted. The new raid was cancelled too and 88 Squadron flew no operations that day. In the evening, 12 Squadron sent four Battles against German tanks on the Arras–Doullens road but the weather deteriorated and only two of the bombers found the target; all four aircraft returned.
The Carrière Wellington is a museum in Arras, northern France. It is named after a former underground quarry which was part of a network of tunnels used by forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the First World War. Opened in March 2008, the museum commemorates the soldiers who built the tunnels and fought in the Battle of Arras in 1917.
Ralph Darras held the manors of Neenton and Sidbury,Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, Addendum to Vol. X, no. 355. both south- west of Bridgnorth in Shropshire, part of the Welsh Marches. Although most such families were of Anglo-Norman origin, Darras, originally rendered de Arras, or d'Arras, signifies origins in Arras, historically the chief town of Artois in Flanders.
Poor Man's Tapestry (1946) and its prequel, Arras of Youth (1949) are about the adventures of a juggler, Robert Gandelyn, in the fourteenth century."Recent Fiction by "B.M"" (Review of Arras of Youth), The Irish Times, 23 July 1949. The Story of Ragged Robyn (1945) focuses on the adventures of the titular stonemason at the end of the seventeenth century.
The Arras area soil is also composed of clay, which was used to produce bricks, build less noble buildings, and embellish façades. Clay is mostly found in the lieu-dit of La Terre Potier in the western part of the city. The level of earthquake hazard in the Arras area is low, as it is in the whole Pas-de-Calais department.
Casualties for the King's during the initial phase of the Arras Offensive exceeded 700. While the battle raged in Arras, the Allies prepared for an offensive in the north, in Flanders. "Third Ypres" (or Passchendaele) became notorious for conditions that transformed the terrain of shell holes and trenches into a quagmire of mud.Morrow (2005), The Great War: An Imperial History, p.192.
Pas-de-Calais' 2nd constituency was enlarged as a result of the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies to include the entire of Arras having previously only contained the north of the city. Politically Arras is famed for being the birthplace of revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre. The constituency is currently held by Jacqueline Maquet who had previously represented Pas-de- Calais' 1st constituency.
In 1320 he was elected Bishop of Arras in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras and transferred to the Diocese of Chartres in 1326. Chappes was made a cardinal by Pope John XXII in the consistory of 18 December 1327. Cardinal de Chappes participated in the conclave of 1334, during which Benedict XII was elected. He died 24 March 1336 in Avignon.
Battersby Hat Works, Offerton, c. 1910. In 1907, they bought a second factory in Conty, near Arras in the north of France. William John Battersby's son, Edgar died there in the 1917 Battle of Arras, and his son Ernest, who managed the factory died on 1 October 1918 at Yvetot, near Rouen from tuberculosis. Battersby Hats window display in Waterford, Ireland, 1928.
Ramsay worked as a boat builder. On 25 May 1915, nine months after the outbreak of the First World War, he enlisted in the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division. Rising to the rank of able seaman, he saw action at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Ramsay was killed near Arras, France on 29 April 1917 and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Saint-Nicolas or Saint-Nicolas-lez-Arras is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
The cyclone's central pressure was 981 mb, and wind speeds reached a maximum of . The city of Arras did not experience any major damage.
The Route nationale 25 is a motorway in northern France. It connects the towns of Amiens and Arras and is approximately 68 km long.
Thompson was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 2 November. Having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial.
He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial and at Millwall F.C.'s ground. His death was widely reported, including in The New York Times.
A farming village situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the N39 and the D55 roads. The river Gy flows through the commune.
A farming village situated at the highest point in the département, northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D72 and the D74 roads.
A farming village situated in the valley of the Ternoise river, northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D343 and the D100 roads.
A farming village located 19 miles (30 km) southeast of Arras on the D20 road. The entire commune was destroyed during World War I.
Bruno Zaremba (7 April 1955 – 5 November 2018) was a French professional footballer who played for Valenciennes, Metz, Dunkerque and Arras, as a striker.
A farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D56 and C5 roads, in the valley of the small river Gy.
Rocquigny lies about south of Arras, at the junction of the D19 and D20 roads. The A2 autoroute passes by some half-mile distant.
Ruyaulcourt lies between the A2 motorway and the Canal du Nord, about southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D19E and D7 roads.
Marœuil is a large farming and light industrial village situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D55, D56 and the D60E roads.
Sauchy-Cauchy lies on the banks of the Canal du Nord, some southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D21E and D14 roads.
A Book of Flower Legends for Children which was published in 1947. Boyle died on 21 October 1988 in the Arras retirement home, Bray.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras is located in the old Abbey of St. Vaast in Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Situated on the D5 road, some southwest of Arras. A small stream, a tributary of the Authie, separates the two parts of the commune.
Louise Weiss (25 January 1893 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais – 26 May 1983 in Paris) was a French author, journalist, feminist and European politician.
A farming village located 12 miles (19 km) south of Arras, at the D7 and D9 road junction. The SNCF railway has a station here.
A farming village located 6 miles (9 km) northwest of Arras, by the banks of the Scarpe river, at the D62 and D49 road junction.
Jean-Paul, comte de Schramm. Jean Paul Adam, comte de Schramm (1 December 1789 in Arras – 25 February 1884) was a French Minister of War.
Warlincourt-lès-Pas is situated some southwest of Arras, on the D25 road. The river Kilienne finds its source in the woodland surrounding the village.
A small farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D102 and the D102E roads, just south of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise.
A small farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D23 and the D916 roads, just south of Saint- Pol-sur-Ternoise.
A farming village situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D94 and the D71 roads and by the banks of the Faulx river.
A farming village situated northeast of Arras, at the junction of the D40 and the D48 roads. The A1 autoroute passes by only yards away.
Ligny-sur-Canche is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D11 and the D941 roads, in the valley of the river Canche.
A farming and light industrial village located 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Arras on the D45 road. The Scarpe river flows through the commune.
A farming village located in the Authie valley (the border with the Somme department), 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Arras, on the D24 road.
A small village located 25 miles (40 km) west of Arras at the junction of the D340 roads, in the valley of the Canche river.
Quiéry-la-Motte is situated northeast of Arras, at the junction of the D39 and D48 roads. The A1 autoroute passes right by the commune.
Magnicourt-sur-Canche is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D54 and the D82E roads, by the banks of the river Canche.
A small farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D85 and the D8E roads, just to the south of Saint-Pol.
Mont-Saint-Éloi is situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D341 and the D49 roads, on the banks of the river Scarpe.
Philippe Ménard, ed. Les Poésies de Guillaume le Vinier. Geneva 1983, 2. Guillaume was well-connected to the other trouvères active in and around Arras.
He was caught in October 1916 and court-martialled in France in February 1917. A shortage of men meant that his sentence of 9 months' hard labour lasted just one week before he rejoined the Football Battalion. He was killed in action whilst assaulting a fortified German position at Oppy Wood during the Battle of Arras on 28 April 1917 and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
It carried out a raid across the river during the day.Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter VI. As the Germans continued to move west, behind the BEF, Arras was becoming a dangerous salient, and 150th Bde came under attack on 23 May. It fought its way out of Arras via Douai that night as the BEF scrambled to form a defensive ring round Dunkirk.Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter VIII.
Lieutenant Valentine St. Barbe Collins was killed in action at age 24 on 2 September 1918 in France. He is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial at the Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery on the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. Killed with him was Captain Brian Laidley Dowling from Sydney, Australia, who was piloting D7790. He is commemorated on the same memorial.
The soil of Arras is primarily composed of chalk, a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock that formed what is called the European stratigraphic unit. That Chalk Group deposited during the Late Cretaceous period 90 million years ago. It used to be extracted to construct the most prestigious buildings and houses of Arras. As a result, residents once nicknamed the city La ville blanche (the White Town).
Locre was born at Saint-Pol-sur- Ternoise, in the County of Artois, in 1571 and studied at Douai University under Joannes Miraeus. He became a member of the clergy and was appointed to the church of St Nicholas in Arras. He wrote a number of works, primarily historical, focusing mainly on the County of Artois. He died at Arras on 22 August 1614.
Turnbull enlisted in the 23rd Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment (2nd Football) during the First World War before being transferred to the 8th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. After being promoted to the rank of lance-sergeant, Turnbull was killed during the Battle of Arras on 3 May 1917 aged 32. Turnbull's body, if recovered, was never identified. He is commemorated on the Arras memorial.
Ellis, Chapter III. However, the German Army had broken through the Ardennes to the east, forcing the BEF to withdraw again across a series of river lines. By the end of 19 May the whole force was back across the Escaut, with 50th (N) Division concentrating on Vimy Ridge above Arras and preparing to make a counter-attack on the German forces sweeping past towards the sea.Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter IV.Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter V. The attack (the Battle of Arras) was made on 21 May, but 150th Bde was not involved, being sent to strengthen the garrison of Arras and to hold the line of the River Scarpe.
Hugh Montague Trenchard, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, performed the unveiling of the Arras Flying Services Memorial and the Arras Memorial on 31 July 1932. The unveiling had initially been scheduled for 15 May 1932; however, due to the assassination of French President Paul Doumer in early May, the ceremony had been postponed. During the first ceremony of the day, Lord Trenchard, accompanied by Lady Trenchard and their eleven-year-old son Hugh Trenchard, was received by the mayor and town council and placed a wreath on the local war memorial. The second ceremony took place in the apse of the cloister of the Arras Memorial, close to the obelisk.
In the meantime, he lived at Amiens. In May 1579 he was one of the signatories of the Treaty of Arras by which the provinces that had formed the Union of Arras recognised royal sovereignty.Jacques Bernard, Recueil des traitez de paix, de trêve, de neutralité, de suspension d'armes, de confédération, d'alliance, de commerce, de garantie, et d'autres actes publics (The Hague, 1700), p. 421. On Google Books On 15 February 1600 he greeted the new joint sovereigns of the Habsburg Netherlands, Albert and Isabella, when they made their solemn entry into Arras, and in the same year he sat in the Estates General of 1600.
The Siege of Arras took place from 22 June to 9 August 1640, during the 1635 to 1659 Franco-Spanish War, a connected conflict of the Thirty Years' War. A French army besieged the Spanish-held town of Arras, capital of the province of Artois, then part of the Spanish Netherlands, which surrendered after holding out for 48 days. Arras was held by a garrison of 2,000, commanded by Owen Roe O'Neill, an Irish exile in Spanish service. Despite a counter- blockade by a Spanish field army under Charles of Lorraine, which brought the French to near starvation, they were eventually resupplied, and the garrison surrendered on 9 August.
On 30 September, a French division arrived at Arras and on 1 October was slowly pushed back from Guémappe, Wancourt and Monchy-le-Preux until the arrival of X Corps. Two more French corps, three infantry and two cavalry divisions had been sent northwards to Amiens, Arras, Lens and Lille, which increased the Second Army to eight corps, along a front of . On 28 September, Falkenhayn had ordered the 6th Army to conduct an offensive on the existing northern flank by the IV, Guard and I Bavarian corps near Arras, and offensives further north. On 1 October, the French attacked to the south-east, expecting only a cavalry screen.
The First attack on Bullecourt (11 April 1917) was a military operation on the Western Front during the First World War. The 1st Anzac Corps of the British Fifth Army attacked in support of the Third Army, engaged in the Battle of Arras (9 April to 16 May 1917). The Report of the Battles Nomenclature Committee (1921) called operations subsidiary to the main Battle of Arras the Flanking Operation to the Arras Offensive. To compensate for the lack of time and artillery, a company of twelve tanks would lead the attackers into the Hindenburg Line defences by crushing the barbed wire against the XIV Reserve Corps ().
Frankforce had moved to the vicinity of Vimy, north of Arras to reinforce the Allied garrison at Arras, for a counter-attack to the south, to cut German communications in the vicinity. Franklyn had detached a brigade each from the 5th Infantry Division and the 50th Motor Division, which had only two instead of the usual three brigades each. Franklyn was not aware of a French push northwards toward Cambrai and the French were ignorant of a British attack south toward Arras. Franklyn had support from the French (Lieutenant-General René Prioux) of the French First Army, which had fought at the Battle of Hannut with its SOMUA S35 cavalry tanks.
Over the next two weeks, VI Corps and Third Army fought a series of rearguard actions through the 'Great Retreat', at Bapaume, Arras and the Ancre.
A small farming village located 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Arras, by the banks of the river Scarpe, at the D49 and D75E road junction.
He married Flora M. Forbes in November 1916. Scott was posted to France in January 1917 and killed in April 1917 at the Battle of Arras.
The canton is organised around Bertincourt in the arrondissement of Arras. The altitude varies from 67m (Havrincourt) to 137m (Rocquigny) for an average altitude of 118m.
The canton is organized around Croisilles in the arrondissement of Arras. The altitude varies from 52m (Chérisy) to 154m (Bucquoy) for an average altitude of 92m.
Soon after he was transferred to the prison of Saint-Nicaise in Arras, where he was shot by the Germans at the end of April 1944.
Wavrans-sur-Ternoise is situated some northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D343 and the D99 roads, on the banks of the river Ternoise.
Warluzel is situated some southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D23 and the D80E roads, on the border with the department of the Somme.
A farming town situated in the valley of the Canche river, west of Arras, at the junction of the D946, the D939 and the D941 roads.
Quéant is situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D14 and D22 roads. Quéant Mountain is a mountain in Canada named after the town.
Thélus lies north of Arras, at the junction of the N17 and D49 roads. Junction 7 of the A26 autoroute is less than a mile away.
Le Souich is situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D59 and the D257 roads, on the border with the department of the Somme.
Sus-Saint-Léger lies southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D23 and D59 roads and on the border with the department of the Somme.
Saudemont lies southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D39 and D13 roads. The A26 autoroute passes by at a distance of half a mile.
The canton is organised around Dainville in the arrondissement of Arras. The altitude varies from 53m (Sainte-Catherine) to 145m (Acq) for an average altitude of 88m.
The canton was organised around Marquion in the arrondissement of Arras. The altitude varies from at Oisy-le-Verger to at Bourlon, with an average altitude of .
He later achieved the rank of corporal. He is buried at Douchy-les-Ayette British Cemetery, France. 8m SW of Arras. Plot IV. row F. Grave 3.
Wancourt is situated some southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D33 and the D34E roads. The A1 autoroute passes by just yards from the commune.
A suburb located 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D341, D60 and D64 roads, by the banks of the river Scarpe.
Assigned as Medical unit for 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade and provided their medical needs at the following battles: The Somme, Amiens, Vimy Ridge, Fosse, Passchendaele, and Arras.
Abbey of St Vaast (facade on the entrance courtyard) The Abbey of St Vaast () was a Benedictine monastery situated in Arras, département of Pas-de-Calais, France.
During the congress of Arras in 1435, Ligny was one those who urged Philip of Burgundy not to sign a peace treaty with the Armagnacs. Philip did so anyway and concluded the Treaty of Arras with Charles VII of France, which Ligny peremptorily refused to sign. This irritated Charles, who authorised his men to attack his lands. Ligny from then on was forced to deal with écorcheurs ravaging his lands.
135 Early in July 1764, Madame de Robespierre gave birth to a stillborn daughter; she died twelve days later, at the age of 29. Devastated by his wife's death, François de Robespierre left Arras around 1767. His two daughters were brought up by their paternal aunts, and his two sons were taken in by their maternal grandparents. Already literate at age eight, Maximilien started attending the collège of Arras (middle school).
The attack went in on 9 April with I Corps and Canadian Corps successfully capturing Vimy Ridge while Third Army attacked further south near Arras. The only hold-up on 9 April was at Hill 145, near the north end of the Canadian attack, and the capture of this position was completed the next day. Fighting in the southern sector (the Battle of Arras) continued into May.Farndale, pp.
He received minor orders in Brussels on 12 March 1604. In 1611 he was in Aire- sur-la-Lys and in 1632 was preacher in Huy. Ange organised a new congregation of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Armentières, the Bons-Fieux, whose rule was approved by Paul Boudot, Bishop of Arras, in 1627. This congregation later had communities in Arras, Lille, Ypres and a number of other towns.
Vedast was venerated in Belgium as well as England (from the 10th century) where he was known as Saint Foster. The spread of his cult was aided by the presence of Augustinians from Arras in England in the 12th century. Three ancient churches in England – St Vedast Foster Lane in London, and in Norwich and Tathwell in Lincolnshire – were dedicated to him.Saint of the Day, February 6: Vedast of Arras SaintPatrickDC.org.
He attended the Council of Basel, and became a supporter of antipope Felix V (Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy).The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Papal elections - 15th Century As an envoy from the Council and, he presided in 1435 over the Congress of Arras, with Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, the papal legate. , , from Enguerrand de Monstrelet. J. G. Dickinson, The Congress of Arras, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955, pp. 78-102.
Another uncle, Thomas de Parenty, was abbot of Saint-Vaast at Arras and had him appointed to a canonry in Arras Cathedral. Sailly was ordained priest on 25 January 1578, and was appointed under-regent of Marchiennes College at the University of Douai. In 1580 Sailly joined the Society of Jesus. After his novitiate he was sent to Poland with Antonio Possevino, who was travelling as a papal envoy.
In the archive collection of the Monuments Historiques, the database lists 23 photographs taken by Sabatté of Arras, showing war damaged buildings, so it is highly likely that he worked from photographs in order to produce the painting, the Arras Belfry (Belfroi) held in the National Gallery of Ireland, from his salvage warehouse in the town. Sabatté died after being struck by a German truck in Chamigny October 22, 1940.
By July 1135 Rodrigo had contracted a second marriage to Estefanía, daughter of Ermengol V of Urgell and widow of the Castilian magnate Fernando García de Hita.Canal Sánchez-Pagín (1989), 126. Estefanía had received a carta de arras from her first husband on 12 November 1119, and she was widowed around 1125. Despite this, on 6 September 1135 Rodrigo praised his new wife for her youth in his carta de arras.
The canton is organised around Pas-en-Artois in the arrondissement of Arras. The altitude varies from 61m (Amplier) to 172m (Humbercamps) for an average altitude of 128m.
The canton is organised around Heuchin in the arrondissement of Arras. The altitude varies from 42m (Tilly-Capelle) to 196 m (Fiefs) for n average altitude of 111m.
The commune is situated south of Arras on the D50 and D163 junction. The Ancre river is little more than a trickle through marshy ground at this point.
Souchez lies north of Arras, at the junction of the D937, D57 and D58 roads. The small river Souchez, a tributary of the Deûle, flows through the town.
The Paris–Arras Tour is a stage cycling race that has been held annually in France since 2010. It is part of UCI Europe Tour in category 2.2.
Jean Sarazin (also Sarrasin or Sarrazin), Latinized Joannes Saracenus (1539–1598) was an abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Vaast, Arras, and the third archbishop of Cambrai.
Born in Wandsworth, London, Hall spent his youth in Richmond, at Sheen Avenue, then in Mount Arras Road.Hall, Clifford (1904–1973). The Hoyle Gallery. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
A small farming village located 16 miles (25 km) southwest of Arras at the junction of the D25 and D2 roads, by the banks of the Authie river.
Anvin is a farming village located in the Ternoise river valley, 28 miles (44 km) northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D343, D70 and D94 roads.
A village located 11 miles (17 km) northwest of Arras on the D82 junction with the N39 road, in the valley, and the source of the river Scarpe.
A farming village situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D54 and the D23 roads. The commune was created in 1856 by merging Houvin and Houvigneul.
A small farming village, situated some northwest of Arras on the D72 near its junction with the D341 road. A small stream, the Hermin, flows through the commune.
Jean Bodel (c. 1165 – c. 1210), was an Old French poet who wrote a number of chansons de geste as well as many fabliaux. He lived in Arras.
Tortequesne is surrounded by lakes and marshland, east of Arras, at the junction of the D43 and D956 roads and on the border with the department of Nord.
Anaël Lardy (born 24 October 1987) is a French basketball player for ASPTT Arras and the French national team, where she participated at the 2014 FIBA World Championship.
Fighting in the southern sector (the Battle of Arras) continued into May.Farndale, Western Front, pp. 164–6, 174–6, Map 23.Cave, pp. 119–27, Map p. 121.
British infantry using trench bridges to cross assembly trenches as they move up in support of the initial assault at Arras on 9 April. 3rd Division moved to the Arras sector in February 1917 and the 8th EYR (now commanded by Lt-Col J.N. de la Perrelle) spent several tours in the St Sauveur trenches before a short period of training for the forthcoming Arras Offensive. The battalion went into the Auckland Caves under Arras on 7 April before moving up into their assembly trenches at 02.00 on 9 April, ready for Zero hour for the First Battle of the Scarpe. In 3rd Division, 76th Bde was to capture the German first line, 9th Bde the second and 8th Bde the third or Brown Line. The attack began at 05.30 with a 'hurricane bombardment' by guns, mortars and machine guns, and 8th Bde moved out of their assembly trenches at 10.40 in order to pass through 9th Bde at Zero plus 6 hours (11.30).
After the death of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy in 1477, King Louis XI of France took control of Arras but the town's inhabitants, still loyal to the Burgundians, expelled the French. This prompted Louis XI to besiege Arras in person and, after taking it by assault, he had the town's walls razed and its inhabitants expelled, to be replaced by more loyal subjects from other parts of France. In a bid to erase the town's identity completely, Louis renamed it temporarily to Franchise. In 1482, the Peace of Arras was signed in the town to end a war between Louis XI and Maximilian I of Austria; ten years later, the town was ceded to Maximilian.
Arras was strongly held, and its fortifications recently updated, but its most formidable defences were the four waterways running around the town, making it hard for besiegers to blockade it, while complicating their communications and logistics. To weaken the garrison, a French force under de Châtillon moved against the smaller towns of Aire-sur-la-Lys and Béthune, forcing the Spanish to send troops from Arras to reinforce them. This achieved, de Châtillon linked up with de Chaulnes and de la Meilleraye, and their combined army of 32,000 men marched on Arras. The garrison now consisted of around 2,000 men, commanded by Owen Roe O'Neill, an exiled Irish veteran who had served in the Spanish army for many years.
6-inch gun of the Royal Garrison Artillery firing over Vimy Ridge behind Canadian lines at night The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps against three divisions of the German Sixth Army. The battle was part of the opening phase of the Battle of Arras, part Nivelle Offensive and took place from 9–12 April 1917. The objective of the Canadian Corps was to take control of the German-held high ground, along an escarpment at the northernmost end of the Arras Offensive.
The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during World War I. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western Front. The British achieved the longest advance since trench warfare had begun, surpassing the record set by the French Sixth Army on 1 July 1916. The British advance slowed in the next few days and the German defence recovered. The battle became a costly stalemate for both sides and by the end of the battle, the British Third and First Army had suffered about 160,000 casualties and the German 6th Army about 125,000.
The 7th Panzer Division had captured Cambrai and advanced to the area south of Arras. For 21 May, the division was ordered to wheel west around Arras and attack to the north, capturing crossings over the Scarpe at Acq, a risky manoeuvre since the right flank would be vulnerable to a counter-attack from Arras. The 5th Panzer Division (Lieutenant-General Max von Hartlieb-Walsporn) was to attack so as to relieve pressure on the 7th Panzer Division (the division was delayed and never managed to fulfil its orders). Rommel ordered to probe towards Acq forward with two motorised infantry regiments to follow later, which left most of the division without tanks.
In 1953, Lionel Ellis, the British official historian wrote that the attack at Arras succeeded in easing German pressure round Arras and delaying the encirclement of the BEF. The ground between Arras and the Cojeul was re-occupied and there was no serious German attack on the town, Rommel making the alarmist claim that the attack was made by five divisions. Beyond the delay imposed on German moves and the many casualties inflicted on the Germans, the attack was bound to fail without a force sufficiently powerful to follow up and consolidate the captured ground. Rundstedt, the commander of Army Group A, had intended that the panzer divisions should rest after the exertions on 20 May.
A small farming village located 11 miles (18 km) south of Arras, at the D7 and D12 road junction. It was rebuilt after being destroyed during World War I.
Support structures were added, and neighboring cellars were connected to each other. These modifications were also made to the city's former fortifications, including Portes de Béthune, Douai, and Arras.
A farming village situated east of Arras, at the junction of the D34 and the D43 roads. The A26 autoroute passes by the village about half a mile away.
A farming village located 23 miles (37 km) west-northwest of Arras, by the banks of the Canche river, at the junction of the D115 with the D102 road.
A farming village northwest of Arras at the junction of the D55 and D56 roads. The small river Gy, a tributary of the Scarpe river, flows through the village.
A farming village located 6 miles (11 km) south of Arras on the N17 road. A celebration of the potato takes place annually on the 1st Sunday in September.
Morval is located south of Arras, on the D11 road, completely surrounded by the department of the Somme. The junction between A1 and A2 autoroutes is less than away.
Monchy-le-Preux is situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D33 and the D339 roads. Junction 15 of the A1 autoroute is just a mile away.
Mount Sorrel; Somme 1916; Ancre Heights; Ancre 1916; Arras 1917, 1918; Vimy 1917; Ypres 1917; Passchendaele; Amiens; Scarpe 1918; Drocourt-Quéant Line; Hindenburg Line; Canal du Nord; Valenciennes; Sambre.
Trescault is surrounded by the forest of Havrincourt, southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D17 and D15 roads and on the border with the department of Nord.
Farndale, pp. 158, 164–6, 174–6, Map 23.Jones, Vol III, Appendix XII. After the initial success at Vimy, the Arras Offensive broke down into costly trench warfare.
"The discoveries are set to widen our understanding of the Arras (Middle Iron Age) culture and the dating of artefacts to secure contexts is exceptional," according to Paula Ware.
His body was afterwards taken to Maubeuge Abbey, where his mother had become a nun. His feast day is celebrated on the 15 January at Arras, Cambrai and Ghent.
Commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in the French Army, Bastien studied military engineering at Fontainebleau and was posted with the Second Company of Engineers at Arras (Pas-de-Calais).
The 1st Bavarian Reserve Division had been in the Arras area since October 1914 and was holding the villages of Thélus, Bailleul and the southern slope of the ridge.
Arras remained under Habsburg rule from 1493 until 1640 when it was captured by the French. The Spanish ceded it by the peace treaty in 1659 and it has since remained French. The Union of Arras was signed here in January 1579 by the Catholic principalities of the Low Countries that remained loyal to King Philip II of Habsburg; it provoked the declaration of the Union of Utrecht later the same month.
He went on to serve in the royal administration of the county. In 1578 he was placed under house arrest by the rebels then in the ascendancy in Arras. He fled to Namur, where he joined the entourage of Don John of Austria. Don John's successor as governor general, Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, delegated Le Vasseur, together with Mathieu Moulart, to negotiate the reconciliation of the Union of Arras to the Crown.
The set could possibly have been The World series, depicting various moral allegories and including a globe.Adelson, Candace J., European Tapestry in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, (1994), 92–104. A list of wedding gifts from Francis I adds four suites of rich Arras hangings, and eight suites of coarser Arras, all 'ret verey good.'Guthrie, William, History of Scotland, vol. 5 (London, 1767), 166: The Historical works of Sir James Balfour, vol.
Thierry Larchier d'Hirson or d'Hireçon, or de Hérisson, (1270 in Bourbonnais – 23 August 1328) was a French cleric under Robert II, Count of Artois. Hirson was employed by Philip IV of France on several occasions. He became a canon of Arras in 1299; chancellor of Mahaut, Countess of Artois in 1303; provost of Aire-sur-la-Lys in 1309; and was appointed Bishop of Arras in April 1328. He died on 23 August 1328.
Since 2008, the organizers created a small version of Rock Werchter on the central square of Arras, in northern France. It is held on the same dates as Rock Werchter, with a similar line-up - which is an advantage for organisers as they can offer artists two shows instead of one. Arras was chosen as a location because of its large historic central square and because of the lack of big rock festivals in France.
Roussiaus le Taillier sought to flatter him in his Arras est escole de tous biens entendre. Fresco dates the poems to the third quarter of the thirteenth century. Gillebert appears in the necrology of the jongleurs and bourgeois of Arras as being celebrated in a mass at Pentecost 1270, so he must have died between this commemorative mass and the previous one (i.e. some time between 2 Feb and 1 June 1270).
Cairns enlisted as a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery in 1915, during the First World War. Serving in 'Z' 61st Trench Mortar Battery, he saw action at Fromelles and at the Third Battle Of Ypres and rose to the rank of corporal. Cairns was killed east of Arras on 13 October 1917, during the build-up to the offensive on Cambrai. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Eventually, France and the Habsburgs signed the Treaty of Arras (1482). Maximilian recognised the annexation of the two Burgundies and several other territories. France retained most of its Burgundian fiefdoms except for the affluent County of Flanders, which passed to Maximilian (but soon rebelled against the archduke). With the 1493 Treaty of Senlis, Maximilian would regain the County of Burgundy, Arras and Charolais, but the Burgundian heartland and Picardy were lost definitively to France.
He was born at Arras. He became a priest in the order of the Oratory, and professor of rhetoric at Beaune. He adopted revolutionary ideas, and became a curé of the Constitutional Church in the department of Pas-de-Calais, where he was later elected as a député suppléant to the convention. He became maire of Arras and administrateur of Pas-de-Calais, and on 2 July 1793 took his seat in the convention.
After a winter spent trench-holding, 50th Division was moved to the Arras sector for the forthcoming offensive (the Battle of Arras). This opened on 9 April and on 12/13 April 50th Division took over some of the captured ground. 150th Brigade remained in reserve during the attack on 14 April. However, it was in the lead when the advance was renewed on 23 April in the Second Battle of the Scarpe.
He is credited with "Le Mystère de la Passion", commonly known as the "Passion of Arras", which was performed at Arras by 1420-1430 and at Metz in 1437. This mystery has 24,944 octosyllables and takes place on four days. The prologue describes the "trial" of Paradise "where God hears the testimony of Justice and Mercy on the evils Satan in the world." God decides to send his son to redeem mankind.
He was born at Arras, then part of the Empire, and educated in the convent school at St. Vaast. Baudouin studied law in the University of Leuven with Mudaeus. He settled as an advocate in Arras, where he continued his studies, but was banned from the town in 1545 on charges of heresy due to his Calvinist leanings. He went to the court of the Emperor Charles V at Brussels, and then travelled extensively.
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, eight kilometres from Arras, commemorates the Battle of Vimy Ridge assault during the Battle of Arras (1917) and is Canada's most important memorial in Europe to its fallen soldiers. Pas-de-Calais was also the target of Operation Fortitude during World War II, which was an Allied plan to deceive the Germans that the invasion of Europe at D-Day was to occur here, rather than in Normandy.
The canton is organised around Vitry-en- Artois in the arrondissement of Arras. The altitude varies from 25m (Brebières) to 113m (Monchy-le-Preux) for an average altitude of 57m.
The canton is organised around Aubigny- en-Artois in the arrondissement of Arras. The altitude varies from 70m (La Comté) to 193m (La Comté) for an average altitude of 127m.
The Monchy-le-Preux Memorial is a Dominion of Newfoundland war memorial that commemorates the actions of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during the Battle of Arras of World War I.
La Comté is a farming and light industrial village situated northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D86 and the D86E roads, in the valley of the river Lawe.
A small farming village located 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Arras at the junction of the D23 and D80 roads, on the border with the département of the Somme.
A small farming village located 15 miles (25 km) southwest of Arras at the junction of the D25 and D23 roads, on the border with the department of the Somme.
A farming village located 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Arras at the junction of the D14, D16 and D19 roads. The entire commune was obliterated during World War I.
A farming village located 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Arras at the junction of the D62 and D67 roads. It is geographically located at an altitude of 148 meters.
Situated halfway between Abbeville and Arras at the junction of the D59 and D196 roads and on the border of the departments of the Somme and the Pas-de-Calais.
Karim Diaby Coulibaly (born 25 December 1989) is a French-Ivorian footballer, who currently plays as a striker for Arras. He played professional football in the Corgoň Liga for Košice.
Farndale, Western Front, pp. 164–71; Map 23. Fighting continued in the Arras sector until the middle of May, with 174th Siege Bty switching between HAGs as required.Farndale, Western Front, pp.
The canton was organized around Beaumetz-les-Loges in the arrondissement of Arras. The altitude varies from 67m (Agnez-lès-Duisans) to 178m (La Herlière) for an average altitude of 109m.
Pas-en-Artois is situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D1, D6 and D25 roads, in the valley of the river Kilienne, a small tributary of the Authie.
Caucourt is a farming village some northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D73 and the D73E roads. The "Blanche" stream rises here, forming the source of the Lawe river.
A farming village situated northeast of Arras, at the junction of the N50 and the D46 roads. Junction 16 of the A1 autoroute is within a few yards of the commune.
A small farming village located 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Arras at the junction of the D956 and D10E roads. The A1 autoroute passes by just yards from the commune.
Plouvain is situated east of Arras, at the junction of the D42 and the D46 roads. The junction of the A1 and the A26 autoroutes is less than a mile away.
Orville is situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D24 and D938 roads, by the banks of the river Authie, on the border with the department of the Somme.
Mondicourt is a farming and light industrial village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D6 and the N25 roads, on the border with the department of the Somme.
Ford served as a private in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) during the First World War and was killed in France on 3 May 1917. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
The film premiered at the Arras Film Festival on 3 November 2018. It was later released in France and Belgium on 19 December 2018, followed by other countries on later dates.
The Battle of Messines marked the zenith of mine warfare. On 10 August, the Royal Engineers fired the last British deep mine of the war, at Givenchy-en-Gohelle near Arras.
The Battle of Vimy Ridge was part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de- Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in the First Army, against three divisions of the German 6th Army. The battle took place from 9 to 12 April 1917 at the beginning of the Battle of Arras, the first attack of the Nivelle Offensive, which was intended to attract German reserves from the French, before their attempt at a decisive offensive on the Aisne and the Chemin des Dames ridge further south. The Canadian Corps were to capture the German-held high ground of Vimy Ridge, an escarpment on the northern flank of the Arras front.
Philippe de Caverel, Latinized as Philippus Caverellius (1555-1636), was an abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St Vaast, Arras, and a councillor of state to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella. He was founder of Arras College in Paris, of the Jesuit College in Arras, of the College of St Vaast at the University of Douai, and of the English Benedictine monastery in Douai, as well as of a convent in La Bassée. He was also a literary patron of the Baroque period. Caverel was one of the delegates of the County of Artois to the Estates General of 1632, and one of the members of that body deputized to unsuccessful peace negotiations with the Dutch Republic in The Hague.
The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought primarily as part of the Battle of Arras, which took place from 9 to 12 April 1917, was part of the opening phase of the British-led Battle of Arras, a diversionary attack for the French Nivelle Offensive. The objective of the Canadian Corps was to take control of the German-held high ground along an escarpment at the northernmost end of the Arras Offensive. Supported by a creeping barrage, the Canadian Corps captured most of the ridge during the first day of the attack. The town of Thélus fell during the second day of the attack, as did the crest of the ridge once the Canadian Corps overcame a salient of considerable German resistance.
Exit from the Allied military tunnels in the Carrière Wellington In preparation for the Battle of Arras in 1917, the Royal Engineers had been working underground from October 1916, constructing tunnels for the troops.Nicholls, 30–32 The Arras region is chalky and therefore easily excavated; under Arras itself there is a vast network of caverns (called the boves), which consist of underground quarries, galleries and sewage tunnels. The engineers devised a plan to add new tunnels to this network so that troops could arrive at the battlefield in secrecy and in safety. The scale of this undertaking was enormous: in one sector alone four Tunnel Companies (of 500 men each) worked around the clock in 18-hour shifts for two months.
Unbeknown to the troops, the German advance troops had already formed a bridgehead over the canal to the south of the division. Having been in position for less than 24 hours, the division was ordered to withdraw towards Arras as a result of the German crossings of the canal. The 69th Brigade moved and took up position along the River Scarpe, northeast of Arras while the 8th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (the division's motorcycle reconnaissance battalion) entered the town itself to reinforce the garrison. The 70th Brigade was to take up position southwest of the town along the Arras–Doullens road as far as Saulty. By daybreak on 20 May, only the 70th Brigade headquarters and parts of the 10th and 11th DLI were in position.
Best Name finished strongly to take second place by a short neck from Arras, just ahead of Art Deco, Numide and Irish Wells. Soumillon, winning the race for the third time and celebrating his 25th birthday said "I had a dream of a race and just followed Arras for as long as possible. Then Darsi was very brave and courageous." He did however, receive a four-day ban from the racecourse stewards for the misuse of his whip.
His first assignment was on patrol on the Maginot Line. He later served as a liaison to the British forces at Arras, and remained with them until the Battle of Arras forced their retreat. He stayed with the British forces until the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, where he was one of the last to be evacuated. His evacuation ship was sunk by a mine, and he was rescued by a British destroyer, bleeding heavily from a neck wound.
The original Arras College had support from Thomas Sackville, third son of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, and Philippe de Caverel, abbot of St. Vedast's in Arras, enlisted by Augustine Bradshaw (John White), providing its name. Among those setting up the college, near Porte St Victoire, were Richard Smith, who had gained papal approval for it, Anthony Champney, Matthew Kellison, and Richard Ireland. William Bishop joined them shortly, after release from prison in England.DNB article on Bishop.
DeLaMare converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1849. In 1851, while on a mission to France, DeLaMare accompanied apostle John Taylor to Arras. Arras was home to extensive beet sugar plants and DeLaMare was able to carefully study the industry and evaluate whether or not this business would work well in Utah. Taylor and DeLaMare, along with others, purchased beet sugar manufacturing supplies and imported it to America.
1525–1550, National Gallery of Art In the 14th and 15th centuries, Arras, France was a thriving textile town. The industry specialised in fine wool tapestries which were sold to decorate palaces and castles all over Europe. Few of these tapestries survived the French Revolution as hundreds were burnt to recover the gold thread that was often woven into them. "Arras" is still used to refer to a rich tapestry no matter where it was woven.
First US edition (publ. Reynal & Hitchcock) Flight to Arras () is a memoir by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Written in 1942, it recounts his role in the Armée de l'Air (French Air Force) as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. The book condenses months of flights into a single terrifying mission over the town of Arras. Saint-Exupéry was assigned to Reconnaissance Group II/33 flying the twin-engine Bloch MB.170.
On 22 September 1150 Ramiro gave these two the bridewealth (arras) which he had neglected to give their mother before her death.Barton (1997), 54, who includes an edition of the original charter in Appendix III, iv, p. 313. In the same charter, he gave them the lands he had confiscated from his niece, Estefanía Díaz, who had married without his consent,Barton (1997), 51. also mentioning the arras that he had given his other two wives, Sancha and Elo.
Robert de Févin (late 15th and early 16th centuries) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was the brother of Antoine de Févin, a considerably more famous composer at the court of Louis XII of France. Whether he was older or younger than Antoine is not known. Little is known about his life, except that either he was born in Cambrai or Arras, the birthplace of his brother, and his father was an alderman in Arras in 1474.
During the withdrawal, the brigade was attacked from the air and witnessed the Luftwaffe strafing refugee columns. Their stay at Vimy Ridge was short-lived due to the ongoing artillery fire, and the brigade moved closer to Arras taking up position at Roclincourt. The brigade could move no closer due to the heavy fighting ongoing around the town. Arras was now reinforced by the fully equipped 5th and 50th (Northumbrian) Divisions which subsequently launched a minor counter-attack.
Catholic Walloon provinces signed their own defensive Union of Arras on 6 January 1579. Grievances against Spain of Catholics who were becoming more and more concerned about Calvinist violence were satisfied and they could make a separate peace in the form of the Treaty of Arras in May 1579, in which they renewed their allegiance to Philip.Koenigsberger, pp. 290–291 Meanwhile, Orange and the States-General in Antwerp were less than enthusiastic about the Union of Utrecht.
The remnants marched back to Arras and reorganised as two companies.Falls, 1917, Vol I, pp. 386–8.Wyrall, East Yorkshires, pp. 195–6, 202, 208–11.Wyrall, East Yorkshires, pp. 246–7.
Dennett sent an unidentified two-seater out of control. His second took place on 3 January 1918 over Arras, Pas-de-Calais; his Camel (B6447) defeated a Hannover C, which was destroyed.
Both men were buried near to where they fell, but after the war their bodies were reinterred at the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery (Grave reference XII. D. 11), Souchez, near Arras, France.
A farming village situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D15 and C5 roads. The A26 autoroute junction with the A2 autoroute is only half a mile from the commune.
Willencourt is situated some west of Arras, at the junction of the D118 and the D118E roads, on the banks of the river Authie, the border with the department of the Somme.
A small farming village situated on the north bank of the river Authie, the border with the Somme department, west of Arras, at the junction of the D115 and the D124 roads.
A small farming village located 20 miles (32 km) south of Arras on the N17 road, at the junction with the D11. The A1 autoroute passes by just yards from the commune.
A small farming village located 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Arras on the D19 road, at the junction with the D7E. The A2 autoroute passes by just yards from the commune.
Le Ponchel is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D121 and the D119 roads, on the banks of the Authie river, the border with the department of the Somme.
Monchel-sur-Canche is situated on the banks and in the valley of the river Canche, which feeds the local fish/trout farm, it is west of Arras, on the D102 road.
The commune is situated between Flandre and Artois and has a distance of 20 km to Lille and 35 km to Arras. It covers an area of approximately 569 ha (5.7 km²).
In 1914 he was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade and served two years in the trenches before being wounded at Arras (where he won the Military Cross) in 1917 by a sniper.
The Maison Folie Moulins is a public building built for the event Lille 2004, European capital of culture . It is located rue d´Arras in Lille- Moulins, a popular district of Lille.
Smith was the author of ‘The Military Course of Engineering at Arras,’ Chatham, 1850, and he translated, with notes, Marshal Marmont's ‘Present State of the Turkish Empire,’ London, 1839; 2nd ed. 1854.
Like 123rd Siege Bty, 174th regularly switched between 8th and 46th HAGs during the winter of 1916–17. 174th Siege Bty took part in the Battle of Arras (see above) in April 1917.
The confused legendary origins of the chausée Brunehaut were unraveled and examined by J. Lestoquoy, "L'étrange histoire de la Chaussée Brunehaut", in Arras au temps jadis1946; see "Presentation of Brunehaut and its villages".
Marquion is a farming and light industrial village situated southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D939 and the D15 roads. Junction 8 of the A26 autoroute is just a mile away.
After beginning his career in England with Southampton, Rivers moved to France to play with Sète, Saint-Étienne and Arras. While at Saint- Étienne, Rivers managed the first-team between 1933 and 1934.
Here the Anonymous Life forms part of a larger legendary copied in the 12th century, with fifty- seven surviving vitae covering saints with feast days in the first three months of the year (January, February and March). Missing nine chapters, the Anonymous Life is preserved in a late 10th-century manuscript from the abbey of St Vaast, Arras, Arras 812 (1029).Colgrave, Two Lives, pp. 17–18 It occupies folios 1 to 26b, and is out of order towards the end.
In 1916 at the time of the Somme Offensive, he was awarded the Military Medal for bringing back 36 wounded men from no-mans land. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Arras offensive. On 9 April 1917 near Arras, Sergeant Cator's platoon had suffered heavy casualties from a hostile machine-gun. Under heavy fire the sergeant, with one man, advanced across the open to attack the gun and when his companion was killed, he went on alone.
Born in Arras, Albert de Beaumetz was the son of an ardent royalist and a premier président of the Superior Council of Artois, a judiciary body of the ancien régime. In 1785, Beaumetz succeeded his father at the Council of Artois and became himself a distinguished personality. He was the lover of Jeanne Louise Henriette Genest Campan, a lady-in-waiting for Marie Antoinette. Each week, he entertained at his home the most important figures of the bar of Arras.
By 19 May they had fallen back to Seclin, then on 20 May to Avion. By now the German breakthrough had cut the BEF off from the French armies. On that day 5th and 50th (Northumbrian) Divisions together with 1st Tank Brigade formed 'Frankforce' (under Maj-Gen H.E. Franklyn of 5th Division) to hold the south-facing salient around Arras. From Avion the regiment was ordered to send 206 and 208 Btys to Arras to join 50th (N) Division for a counter-attack.
The Flying Services Memorial is adjacent to the Arras Memorial. It is an obelisk with a globe which forms a finial on the top. The four sides of the obelisk are inscribed with the names of 990 airmen who were killed on the Western Front and have no known grave. Renowned Scottish sculptor Sir William Reid Dick (1879–1961) sculpted the globe with stars on top of the Arras Flying Services Memorial, as well as the badges on the monument.
Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510 – 5 October 1564) was a Renaissance composer of the Franco-Flemish School. De Manchicourt was born at Béthune. Little is known of his early life other than that he was a choirboy at Arras in 1525; later in life he had a succession of posts in Arras, Tours and Tournai, before going to Spain to be master of the Flemish chapel (capilla flamenca) at the court of Philip II, where he stayed for the remainder of his life.
In the early stages of the second World War, during the invasion of France in May 1940, the city was the focus of a major British counterattack. Arras saw an Allied counterattack against the flank of the German army. The German forces were pushing north towards the channel coast, in order to entrap the Allied Forces that were advancing east into Belgium. The counterattack at Arras was an Allied attempt to cut through the German spearhead and frustrate the German advance.
Unfortunately, the poor preservation conditions meant that all traces of a human body had disappeared but given the strong parallels of inhumations accompanying chariot burials there is no reason to doubt the former presence of a body in the pit. The burial may have been part of a larger prehistoric cemetery and enclosure, which surrounded it. The only other area of Britain where chariot burials have been found is of the Arras culture in East Yorkshire,Stead, I.M. 1979. The Arras Culture.
River Scarpe and connecting waterways (not showing the non-navigable stream west from Arras) The river was made navigable by weirs and locks over about two thirds of its length (), divided into the Upper Scarpe (, 23 km, 9 locks) from Arras to Courchelettes,Fluviacarte, Scarpe supérieure the Middle Scarpe through Douai, and the Lower Scarpe (, 36 km, 6 locks) from Douai to the Escaut.Fluviacarte, Scarpe inférieure The Middle Scarpe is no longer navigable, bypassed by the high-capacity Canal Dunkerque-Escaut.
In March 2011, the French Woman's Football Team trained at Degouve before its friendly match at Bollaert against Poland.Degouve version Bleues On April 28, 2012, the Degouve stadium hosted a semi-final of the Coupe de France football feminine between Arras and the prestigious Olympique lyonnais in front of 2500 spectators.La montagne lyonnaise était trop haute pour des Arrageoises admirables de courage On December 7, 2012, once again at an 8th round, Arras played SCO Angers (in League 2), and won 1–0.
The Arras region is chalky and therefore easily excavated; under Arras itself is a vast network (called the boves) of caverns, underground quarries, galleries and sewage tunnels. The engineers devised a plan to add new tunnels to this network so that troops could arrive at the battlefield in secrecy and in safety. The scale of this undertaking was enormous: in one sector alone four Tunnelling Companies (of 500 men each) worked around the clock in 18-hour shifts for two months.
On 3 December 1328Eubel, p. 115. Peter Roger was named Bishop of Arras, in which capacity he became a royal councilor of King Philip VI. He held the diocese of Arras only until 24 November 1329, less than a year, when he was promoted to the Archdiocese of Sens.Eubel, I, p. 448. He held the Archbishopric of Sens for one year and one month, until his promotion to the See of Rouen on 14 December 1330.Eubel, I, p. 425.
He was born at Arras and studied law at Leuven. In 1540 he was in Paris, where he worked with his friend François Baudouin under the leading jurist and advocate Charles Du Moulin, and became himself advocate at the Parlement of Paris. He became interested in the doctrines of the Reformed Church; and when he returned to Arras, his relations with the Protestants caused him to be treated as a heretic. In 1545 he went to Strasbourg, where he married.
In his ten matches, Bodington scored 154 runs at an average of 11.00, with a high score of 36. With the ball Bodington took nine wickets at a bowling average of 31.88, with best figures of 3/19. Bodington served in the First World War in the Royal Horse Guards, attached to the Household Battalion from 1916, where he held the rank of Captain. Bodington was killed in action near Arras, France on 11 April 1917 during the Battle of Arras.
Trainset involved: Eurostar 3101/3102 Service: 9047, Paris - London Location: LGV Nord-Europe, near Croisilles ( south of Arras) Injuries: 14, slight Belgian trainset 3101-3102 was covering Eurostar 9047 (Paris to London), travelling northbound on track 1 of the LGV Nord high speed line at with 501 passengers on board. The engineer detected an anomalous vibration and reduced speed to , before resuming full speed a short time afterwards. At 1754 local time as the trainset passed near the village of Croisilles, south of Arras, at the level of the track switch for the branch line to Arras, a transmission assembly failed. A reaction link on the rear bogie of the leading power car became separated from the bogie frame, leading to catastrophic failure of the transmission assembly with parts falling onto the track.
Nevertheless, the combat did not stop, each side wanting the total control of the area. Canadian National Vimy Memorial near Arras The Nord pas de Calais was one of the main theaters of the conflict, with many battles occurring between 1914 and 1918, including the Battle of Vimy Ridge assault during the Battle of Arras (1917), the Battle of Artois, Battle of Loos and the Battle of Cambrai. By the time the region was finally liberated by the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, the entire country was devastated and Arras had been 90% destroyed. Currently, there are 650 military cemeteries throughout the Nord-Pas-de Calais, mostly British and Canadian, as well as large memorials such as the Canadian National Vimy Memorial and Notre Dame de Lorette, the world's largest French military cemetery.
Tunnel and mining trolley in Carrière Wellington Before the Battle of Arras (9 April – 16 May 1917), the 184th Tunnelling Company were engaged in Arras on Fish Avenue Tunnel, and in helping construct emplacements for heavy mortars. The British forces controlling Arras had decided to re-use the ancient underground quarries in the town to aid a planned offensive against the Germans, whose trenches ran through what are now the eastern suburbs of the town. The underground quarries were to be linked up by tunnels so that they could be used both as shelters from the incessant German shelling and as a means of conveying troops to the front in secrecy and safety. From October 1916, the tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers had been constructing tunnels for the troops,Nicholls, Jonathon.
A farming village situated northeast of Arras, at the junction of the N50 and the D33 roads. The motorway junction of the A26 autoroute and the A1 autoroute is less than a mile away.
These were Richthofen's 79th and 80th aerial victories. The following day he was shot down and killed. Raymond-Barker's body was never recovered, and so he is commemorated at the Arras Flying Services Memorial.
Thièvres lies southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D1 and D176 roads. Unusually, the village is two communes, one part in the Somme department and the other in the Pas-de-Calais.
The arrondissement of Arras is an arrondissement of France in the Pas-de- Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region. It has 357 communes. Its population is 293,991 (2016), and its area is .
Their leaders were Guilhem Camisard, Amaury de Sévérac (the Bastard of Bertusan) and John Broquiers. The Écorcheurs were demobilized mercenaries who desolated France in the 15th century after the Treaty of Arras in 1435.
Arras is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Dibër. The population in 2011 was 3,055.
Coulibaly was a youth player for Valenciennes B and played for the reserve team in the fourth and fifth tier of French football for three seasons. He spent the 2010–11 season with Arras.
Louis-Casimir Escoffier, known primarily by the pseudonym Casimir Ney or L. Casimir-Ney, (1801 – 3 February 1877, in Arras) was a French composer and one of the foremost violists of the 19th century.
McLeod served in the Gordon Highlanders during the First World War and was an acting lance corporal when he was killed in France on 16 May 1917. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Bishop and a Nieuport 17 fighter in Filescamp, 1917. On 17 March 1917, Bishop arrived at 60 Squadron at Filescamp Farm near Arras, where he flew the Nieuport 17 fighter.McCaffery 1988, pp. 47, 51.
The French-speaking provinces thereby concluded the Union of Arras, prompting the northern provinces to answer with their own Union of Utrecht. These two agreements produced a split between Habsburg Netherlands, never to be reconciled.
A farming village situated east of Arras, in the valley of the river Sensee, at the junction of the D39 and D9 roads. The A26 autoroute passes by about half a mile from the village.
Deme N'Diaye (born 6 February 1985) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a striker. He previously played for Portuguese club Estrela Amadora, and French clubs Arles-Avignon, RC Lens, and Arras FA.
Pelves is situated east of Arras, at the junction of the D33E and C4 roads, in the valley of the river Scarpe and just south of the junction of the A1 and the A26 autoroutes.
During World War I, Schonland volunteered for service and served with the Signal Service of the Royal Engineers in France 1915-18. He was wounded at Arras, mentioned in despatches and was awarded the OBE.
5th Division moved to the Arras sector in mid-February 1916, and 12th Gloucesters took over dry, well-made trenches with deep dug-outs, and lived in cellars in Arras when out of the line.Grist, p. 100.Marks, pp. 111–5. Steel helmets began to be issued to British troops early in 1916, but there were great shortages: Lt-Col Archer-Shee used his position as an MP and own observations in the trenches to ask embarrassing questions of the Under-Secretary of State for War.
During the First World War the division fought on the Western Front at Bullecourt in the Battle of Arras and Havrincourt in the Battle of Cambrai. During Operation Michael, in 1918, they were in the line near Arras and in the Second Battle of the Marne, in the Ardre Valley. At the opening of Second Battle of the Somme (1918), they fought the Battle of Havrincourt and continued across the Saint Quentin Canal at Marcoing, before beginning the fighting advance to Maubeuge on the Sambre.
Maximilien de Robespierre was born in Arras in the old French province of Artois. His family has been traced back to the 15th century in Vaudricourt, Pas-de-Calais; one of his ancestors, Robert de Robespierre, worked as a notary in Carvin the mid-17th century.Lavoine, A. (1914) La famille de Robespierre et ses origines. Documents inédits sur le séjour des Robespierre à Vaudricourt, Béthune, Harnes, Hénin-Liétard, Carvin et Arras. (1452–1790). In: Revue du Nord, tome 5, n°18, May 1914. p. 114.
Mann, SS-Totenkopf, p. 76. By the time the operation had finished in Cambrai, the first German units had reached the English Channel, but the British counter-attacked just west of Arras on 21 May, following on from the counter-attack of the day before (Battle of Arras). The Totenkopf division suffered casualties of just under 100 men in repelling the assault. The Totenkopf was then ordered to the town of Béthune and crossed the La Bassée river under British attack on 24 May.
From February the battalion was engaged in trench improvements and building camps until the division moved to the Arras sector in April. After the success of the opening attack of the Battle of Arras on 9 April, 50th Division followed hp through the attacking troops to keep the enemy retreating. This led to slow, costly advances while the 1/7th DLI kept the road repaired for supplies, then worked on strongpoints, wiring and constructing shelters, until they were relieved on 26 April.Dunn, pp. 122–9.
The first known lord of Arras was Sylvion d'Arras: according to a report dating from 1278 this lord owned the fief of tour brune. The village has seen many changes over time with the construction of the dam and the railway which resulted in numerous expropriations of land and the loss of local jobs. Today the vineyard area of Arras is about 35 hectares against 100 hectares in 1956. In 1969 the Saint-Joseph AOC was established following a renovation plan for the vineyards dating from 1960.
Later, Carter discovers that Dejah Thoris may have taken the pilgrimage to the Valley Dor to find him. Upon returning to Helium, Carter is tried for heresy by the Zodangans; but the people of Helium do not tolerate this, and Carter is held prisoner for 365 days until his son frees him. Thereafter he goes to rescue Dejah Thoris but is kidnapped by the Zodangans. Carter refuses Zat Arras’ offer of freedom in exchange for endorsing Zat Arras as Jeddak of Helium, and is imprisoned.
He did a great deal to mediate between the leaders of the Crusade before his death at Arras, bringing Henry II of England right and Philip II of France to reconcile, as well as healing the rift between the Emperor Frederick I and Philip I, Archbishop of Cologne. It was at the Tag Gottes ("God's Day") held in Mainz in 1188 that he induced Frederick to join the Crusade. He was buried at Arras and is considered beatified. The Cistercians celebrate his day on 14 July.
From German attacks on Arras and the vicinity were costly failures. On 4 October, German troops entered Lens, Souchez, Neuville-Saint-Vaast and gained a footing on the Lorette Spur. German attacks were made from the north of Arras to reach the Scarpe but were eventually repulsed by X Corps. By 4 October, German troops had also reached Givenchy-en-Gohelle and on the right flank of the French further south, the Territorial divisions were separated from X Corps, prompting Castelnau and Maud'huy to recommend a retreat.
Front line at Arras immediately prior to the assault. Map of chalk areas in northern France Tunnel and mining trolley in Carrière Wellington On 15 November 1916, the New Zealand Tunnelling Company ended its offensive mining operations and started preparations for the Battle of Arras (9 April – 16 May 1917). Henry Armytage Sanders was sent to France and met up with the New Zealand Tunnelling Company on 8 April 1917. Sanders took all the NZEF historical photographs and designated these with serial numbers in the H series.
Initially listed as missing, he was later confirmed to have been killed in action. German ace Josef Veltjens claimed a kill on a S.E.5a that same day, and is usually considered the victor over Boger. As a Commonwealth airman with no known grave Boger is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial at Arras, Pas de Calais, France, and also on Page 370 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Boger's award of the Distinguished Flying Cross was gazetted posthumously on 2 November 1918.
Newspaper articles were written on this project including in the Toronto Star and the Edmonton Journal. Gow and his co- researchers have translated and edited a volume titled The Arras Witch Treatises: Johann Tinctor's Invectives contre la secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrarum by the Anonymous of Arras (1460), co-introduced, co-edited and co-translated with Robert Desjardins and François Pageau, which was published in 2016 by Penn State University Press in the series 'Magic in History'.
He was invalided home, after the Second Battle of Ypres, suffering from gas poisoning and spent some months in England serving his Reserve Battalion. He returned to France, as Adjutant of the 1st Battalion, in December, 1915, and was mentioned in despatches on 1 January 1916. He served continuously until his death on 9 April 1917 at the Battle of Arras. He was mortally wounded by a piece of shell after advancing about 6000 yards, and died at Fampoux, Arras, France before reaching the dressing station.
Both sides then proceeded to attempt to outmaneuver the other, and the battle ended indecisively. The Battle of Arras, which was another attempt on the part of the French to outflank the Germans, was started on October 1. Despite heavy attacks by three corps from the First, Second, and Seventh armies, the French held on to Arras, albeit losing Lens on October 4. The Battle of the Yser, fought between October 18 and November 30, was the northernmost battle in the 'Race to the Sea'.
Adrien Petit (born 26 September 1990 in Arras) is a French racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . In September 2015 announced that Petit would join them for the 2016 season, after five years with .
He then served the Duke of Burgundy Jean sans Peur in 1413 and then in the service of the Dauphin in 1414, of which he became the commissioner for the execution of the Treaty of Arras.
In 1581, Claude Fauchet included Sainte des Prez in his catalogue of French poets from before 1300.Doss-Quinby et al. (2001), pp. 2–3. Sainte probably belonged to the school of trouvères centred on Arras.
These spurs lie in a north-west to south- east direction and are located north-west of the city of Arras. They are known as the Loretto Heights (Notre Dame de Lorette) and the Vimy ridge.
Arras is part of the académie de Lille (Lille's School District). There are 11 écoles maternelles (nursery schools), 11 écoles primaires (elementary schools), 8 collèges (junior high schools) and 7 lycées (high schools) within the city.
A farming and light industrial village situated east of Arras, at the junction of the D37 and D258 roads, in the valley of the Scarpe river. Feuchy knows an important development thanks to this road infrastructure.
A commune made up of three farming villages (Sautricourt, St.Martin and Hernicourt) that surround the neighbouring commune of Wavrans-sur-Ternoise. Situated north of St.Pol and northwest of Arras, on the D99 and the D343 roads.
During what became known as the Race to the Sea the Battle of Arras had been fought, after which local operations, particularly on the Lorette Spur, continued during the First Battle of Flanders to the north.
Colart le Boutellier (fl. 1240–60) was a well-connected trouvère from Arras. There are no references to him independent of his own and others' songs, found in the chansonniers. One of these (F-Pn fr.
His early experiences between Arras and Boulogne are illustrated and described in his book Baggage to the Enemy (London 1941), while Diary of a War Artist, published in 1974, described his later experiences during the conflict.
Tangry is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Tangry lies c, 40 km northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D70, D77 and D99 roads.
Gaidifer (Gadifer) d'Avion (fl. 1230-50) was an Artesian trouvère from Avion. He entered the Church and was associated with the poets of the so-called "School of Arras". Gaidifer was well-connected to contemporary poets.
In April 1792, the regiment moved to Arras, and it was there that on 20 August 1792, when all Swiss regiments were disbanded, that the Régiment de Rheinach ceased to exist.Susane, Volume I, pp. 315, 323.
Lord Furness died on 6 October 1940, aged 56, 5 months after his son Christopher was killed in the Battle of Arras. He was succeeded by his younger and only surviving son, Tony, as second viscount.
Bishop Jean-Paul JaegerJean-Paul Jaeger is the emeritus Bishop of Arras, France.Jaeger bio. Jaeger, was born on September 6, 1944 in Nancy, Meurthe-et- Moselle. He obtained his License degrees from the Université de Lille.
Map of chalk areas in northern France By the time of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in spring 1917, the company were in Ronville near Arras, working in the caves and tunnels in that area. Before the Battle of Arras (9 April – 16 May 1917), the British forces controlling Arras had decided to re-use the ancient underground quarries in the town to aid a planned offensive against the Germans, whose trenches ran through what are now the eastern suburbs of the town. The underground quarries were to be linked up by tunnels so that they could be used both as shelters from the incessant German shelling and as a means of conveying troops to the front in secrecy and safety. From October 1916, the tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers had been constructing tunnels for the troops,Nicholls, Jonathon.
Instead of consolidating bridgeheads on the west bank of the Meuse, the Germans began an advance down the Somme river valley towards the English Channel. The Allies were thrown into confusion and their attempts to cut off the panzer spearheads degenerated into sporadic, un-coordinated counter-attacks which never achieved sufficient concentration to succeed as the main Allied armies were in Belgium. The offensive at Arras was planned by the British and French to relieve the pressure on the British garrison in the town of Arras and was not coordinated with an attack by the French from the south of the German panzer corridor. Constrained by the limited forces available to them, the Anglo-French offensive was carried out by a small mixed force of British and French tanks and infantry who advanced south from Arras.
If those 10 men failed the Germans would have literally walked into Monchy and taken over. And considering Monchy's importance to the overall success of the Battle of Arras, this makes the mistake all the more incredible.
Berkeley Ormerod was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, and educated at St Paul's School, London.Wisden 1984, p. 1206. He served in World War I, fighting at Arras and Ypres. He ended the war with the rank of major.
Biefvillers-lès- Bapaume is a small farming village located just outside Bapaume and 12 miles (19 km) south of Arras. It was within the theatre of operations of the Battle of Bapaume, during the Franco-Prussian War.
Baldric of Noyon was the forty-second bishop of Tournai (1099–1112).F. Hennebert, "Baldéric", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 1 (Brussels, 1866), 659-661. A chronicle of Arras and Cambrai has mistakenly been attributed to him.
By the terms of the Treaty of Arras (1482), Maximilian was forced to cede Artois and Picardy to France, but retained control over Flanders as Philip's guardian. France nevertheless openly supported Flemish "particularism" against the Burgundians/Habsburgs.
Enghien took part with distinction in the siege of Arras. He also won Richelieu's favor when he was present with the Cardinal during the plot of Cinq Mars, and afterwards fought in the Siege of Perpignan (1642).
After her death the political crisis in France was resolved when Queen Isabeau's only surviving son Charles VII and John the Fearless' successor as Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, signed the Peace of Arras in 1435.
Saint Vindicianus (Vindician) () ( 632 – 712) was a bishop of Cambrai-Arras. His feast day is 11 March. He is called a spiritual follower of Saint Eligius (Saint Eloi). Traditionally, his birthplace is given as Bullecourt, near Bapaume.
Obolensky was not tortured. She was tried on charges of treason in a military court in Arras in May 1944 and was found guilty. She was sentenced to death, but refused to sign a petition for mercy.
He was buried in Marœuil British Cemetery, near Arras. His brothers Rolland and James (the latter also a footballer) were also killed during the war. Neilson was added to the Aberdeen University Roll of Honour in 1921.
Fighting in the southern sector (the Battle of Arras) continued into May, but I Corps was not involved. CCLXXXII Brigade supported 24th Division and the 46th (North Midland) Division until mid-May when it went for rest.
The tunnellers named the individual quarries after their home towns - Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Blenheim, Christchurch and Dunedin for the New Zealanders, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Crewe and London for the Britons. (For a map of the Arras underground system, see here.) Thousands of soldiers were billeted in the tunnels for eight days prior to the start of the Arras offensive on 9 April 1917. At 05:30 that morning, exits were dynamited to enable the troops to storm the German trenches. The Germans were taken by surprise and were pushed back .
The Irish-trained Aussie Rules was made favourite after winning the Poule d'Essai des Poulains three weeks earlier, whilst the other leading contenders included Olympian Odyssey (third behind George Washington and Sir Percy in the 2000 Guineas), Best Name (Prix François Mathet), Numide (Prix Hocquart), Art Deco (Dee Stakes), Barastraight (Prix La Force) and the undefeated Arras. Darsi raced in fifth place for most of the way before making a sustained run in the straight. He overtook the leader Arras 100 metres from the finish and won by three quarters of a length.
This proved ineffective, so he inserted two fingers into the neck wound and pushed down on an artery, which stopped the bleeding. The train was carrying 554 passengers and was passing Oignies in the Pas-de-Calais department when the attack took place, and it was rerouted to the station of Arras. Moogalian was airlifted to the University Hospital in Lille, while Stone was later treated for thumb and eye injuries and other wounds. The remaining passengers were taken to Arras, where they were searched and identified before being allowed to proceed to Paris.
In the spring of 1916, French troops transferred the city of Arras in Pas-de-Calais, France, to the British armed forces. Construction of the British portion of Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery in the western portion of Arras, near the Citadel designed by Vauban, began in March 1916, behind the existing French graveyard. After the Armistice, the cemetery was extended with graves that were transferred from the battlefield and from two smaller graveyards in the area. The graves in the French portion of the military cemetery were moved elsewhere after the war.
Arras Christmas Market (Pas-de-Calais) - Visiting, Travel, Hotels The Main Square Festival is held for several days in early July within the Vauban Citadel, attracting tens of thousands of attendees and playing host to major acts such as The Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, David Guetta and The Black Eyed Peas. The Arras Film Festival is a film festival held for ten days in November. Le jardin botanique Floralpina is a private botanical garden, specializing in alpine plants. It opens every year on the last Sunday of May and can be visited by appointment.
Among the factions, the Duke of Bedford wanted to defend Normandy, the Duke of Gloucester was committed to just Calais, whereas Cardinal Beaufort was inclined to peace. Negotiations stalled. It seems that at the congress of Arras, in the summer of 1435, where the duke of Beaufort was mediator, the English were unrealistic in their demands. A few days after the congress ended in September, Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, deserted to Charles VII, signing the Treaty of Arras that returned Paris to the King of France.
One of the most famous of the secular plays is the musical Le Jeu de Robin et Marion, written by Adam de la Halle in the 13th century, which is fully laid out in the original manuscript with lines, musical notation, and illuminations in the margins depicting the actors in motion. Adam also wrote another secular play, Jeu de la Fueillee in Arras, a French town in which theatre was thriving in the late 12th and 13th centuries. Another play surviving from Arras is Jeu de saint Nicolas by Jean Bodel (c.1200).
Boudot was born in Morteau, in Franche Comté, in 1571. He graduated doctor of the Sorbonne in 1604, and was appointed the episcopal official of Jean Richardot, bishop of Arras, following him to Cambrai as archdeacon when Richardot became archbishop there. He was also appointed a preacher in ordinary to Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, preaching the funeral sermon for Albert's brother Emperor Rudolph II in the court chapel in Brussels in 1612. In 1619 he was appointed bishop of Saint-Omer, being transferred to Arras in 1626.
Anzin St. Aubin was formed from two villages: Saint Aubin, formerly Saint Aubin in the Marsh, on the road to Arras, by the Scarpe river and Anzin, on the same road, but further east, bordering on Arras. The parish was created around the 12th century, with the church being built at Saint Aubin (the larger of the two villages). The name of Anzin (Anzinum) appears around 866-870, that of Saint Aubin (Sancti Albini of Marex) only appears in 1154. In the 16th century, the abbey at Saint Vaast built a watermill at Anzin.
The word arras is Spanish, meaning "earnest money" (arrhae, plural of '), "bride price", or "bride wealth". The custom of using coins in weddings can be traced to a number of places, including Spain and Rome. The book An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies claims that origin of arras was from gold rings or coins in Visigothic law, whereas the Sex and Society claims the practice emerged from Frankish marriage ceremonies. The ancient Roman custom includes the act of breaking gold or silver equally into two pieces.
12615) depicts the known coat-of- arms used by the Boutillier family, one of the petty noble clans of Arras, and assigns it to Colart. Another manuscript (F-Pn fr.844) does not show any arms for Colart and it can be surmised that he was in fact a member of one of the middle-class families of the same name that could then be found in Arras. He may have been a relative of Robert le Boutellier, who judged a jeu parti between Thomas Herier and Gillebert de Berneville.
After the death of Vedulphus, the See of Arras was transferred to Cambrai, and it was not until 1093 that Arras again became a diocese. At the time of the reform of the bishoprics of the Netherlands in 1559, the diocese had 422 parishes. Its metropolitan was changed from Reims to Cambrai by Pope Paul IV.12 May 1559: Gallia christiana III, pp. 318-321. Before the French Revolution the Cathedral Chapter consisted of the Provost,The Provost was always appointed by the King, but 'elected' by the Chapter.
It became the youngest grade I listed building in Britain in 1991, being at the time one of only two listed buildings to be less than 30 years old. In September 1993 Ipswich and Arras, Nord Pas-de-Calais, France, became twin towns, and a square in the new Buttermarket development was named Arras Square to mark the relationship. Ipswich formerly had a municipal airport to the south-east of the town, which was opened in 1929 by the Ipswich Corporation. The airport was controversially closed in 1996 by Ipswich Borough Council.
A Vita of Vedast by Alcuin recounts a story that on one occasion, having spent the day in instructing a nobleman, his host would see him on his way with a glass of wine to sustain him, but found the cask empty. Vedast bid the servant to bring whatever he should find in the vessel. The servant then found the barrel overflowing with excellent wine.Alcuin. the Life of St. Vedast, Bishop of Arras, Chapter V In 499, Remigius named him the first bishop of Arras, France;Diocèse d'Arras, Histoire du diocèse d'Arras.
Févin was most likely born in Arras, the son of an alderman. His brother Robert de Févin was also a composer. Most likely Antoine left Arras in the late 1480s, though there is no evidence that he went to Italy, the commonest destination for Franco-Flemish composers of the time. In the 1490s it is likely he became a priest (although there is no known documentation of that today), and he also may have obtained a master's degree at a university, since he is commonly known as maistre later in his life.
After the war, the historians wrote that the Franco-British armies conducted attacks from 17 December between Arras and Armentières. By 20 December, the Allied attacks had been contained but skirmishing continued around Carency, Ecurie, Neuve Chapelle and La Bassée. On 1 January 1915, the 6th Army, near Arras, was ordered to capture the chapel on the Lorette Spur with the XIV Corps, after which VII Corps would join the attack on either side of La Bassée Canal, from Givenchy to Cuinchy but lack of resources led to a costly stalemate by February 1915.
In the intervening time, the papal bull of 12 May 1559 establishing the new bishoprics in the Low Countries had made Cambrai an archdiocese, with Tournai, Arras, Saint-Omer and Namur as suffragan sees. On 6 January 1560 this was confirmed by Pope Pius IV, despite the protests of Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, archbishop of Reims, to whom Cambrai, Tournai, Arras and Saint-Omer had previously been subject (Namur had been part of the diocese of Liège).André Le Glay, Cameracum Christianum ou histoire ecclésiastique du diocèse de Cambrai (Lille, Lefort, 1849), pp. 59-62.
From the 15th century on, most metal lace was a combination of metal and textile threads, rather than made of pure metal. Orris is another term for gold or silver lace, used especially in the 18th century; the term derived from Arras lace, made in Arras, France. Gold lace and braiding was a popular option for military uniforms because it resisted tarnish, unlike other metal laces. Contemporary gold lace usually has a high silver percentage, which can be as high as 90%, with the actual gold content as low as 3%.
Rommel and staff during the Battle of France, June 1940 On 20 May, Rommel reached Arras. General Hermann Hoth received orders that the town should be bypassed and its British garrison thus isolated. He ordered the 5th Panzer Division to move to the west and the 7th Panzer Division to the east, flanked by the SS Division Totenkopf. The following day, the British launched a counterattack, meeting the SS Totenkopf with two infantry battalions supported by heavily armoured Matilda Mk I and Matilda II tanks in the Battle of Arras.
There he made rapid progress, and was soon appointed to tutorial duties at the colleges of Niort, Saumur, Vendôme, Juilly and Arras. There he was initiated into Freemasonry at "Sophie Mademlaine" lodge in 1788.Dictionnaire universelle de la Franc-Maçonnerie, page 298 (Marc de Jode, Monique Cara and Jean-Marc Cara, ed. Larousse, 2011)Dictionnaire de la Franc-Maçonnerie, page 456 (Daniel Ligou, Presses Universitaires de France, 2006) At Arras he had had some encounters with Maximilien Robespierre both before the revolution and in the early days of the French Revolution (1789).
Pierre I was a Cistercian monk of the twelfth century, and Bishop of Arras, France from 1184 to 1203. Pierre is first known as Abbot of Pontigny from 1176 to 1178. Then from the end of 1180, he was Abbot of Cîteaux.Jean Marillier, charters and documents relating to the Abbey of Cîteaux, 1098-1182, (Rome, 1961). In the spring of 1184, Pierre became Bishop of ArrasMichel Benoît Tock, the Episcopal election in Arras, Lambert to Pierre Ier (1093-1203) in Belgian journal of philology and history, vol 70, 1987, p. 719.
Ironically, the conservative Walloon provinces had signed their own defensive Union of Arras on 6 January 1579. The treaty was initially signed by Hainault, Artois and Walloon Flanders and reconfirmed the Pacification and the Perpetual Edict, in addition to neutrality with Spain. In return, Spain was to refrain basing its troops in the provinces. Once Parma accepted these conditions the grievances of the conservative Catholics against Spain were satisfied and they could make a separate peace in the form of the Treaty of Arras in May, in which they renewed their allegiance to Philip.
McKay has been commemorated on page 579 of the First World War Book of Remembrance and on the Arras Memorial in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras. In 1920, a local citizen named William Haddon donated the Eddie McKay Cup to the Public School Hockey League in London, Ontario. The cup was meant to be in honor of McKay's "athletic manhood and enthusiasm for sport". In November 2007 a fourth year history class at King's University College placed a commemorative marker in McKay's memory on the University of Western Ontario campus.
He is known as bishop Gerard III of Cambrai.H. Fisquet, La France pontificale (Gallia christiana): Métropole de Cambrai (Paris, 1869), pp. 200–03. Gérard was born at Dainville to a family related to the Counts of Flanders. His brothers were Jean, a knight and maître de l'hôtel to the French kings John II and Charles V; Michel, an archdeacon of Ostrevent in the diocese of Arras, who with Gérard co-founded the Collège de Dainville of the University of Paris; and Nicolas, a canon at Paris, Arras and Avranches, and a penitentiary (1362–67).
Dame Maroie or Maroie de Dregnau de Lille (fl. 13th century) was a trouvère from Arras, in Artois, France. She debates Dame Margot in a jeu parti, or debate song, "Je vous pri, dame Maroie."Doss-Quinby 27.
As bishop he sat as a representative of the First Estate for the County of Artois in the Estates General of 1632. He died in Arras on 11 November 1635.Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, ed. M.Michaud, vol.
A farming village located 24 miles (38 km) west of Arras at the junction of the D112 and D340 roads, by the banks of the river Canche. The village wins national and international prizes for its flower display.
CCLXXVII AFA brigade was itself pulled out to refit on 6 April.Blaxland, p. 104.Farndale, Western Front, pp. 276–8. On 22 April the brigade went back into the line, attached to 56th (1st London) Division near Arras.
William II, Lord of Béthune, nicknamed William the Red (; d. April 1214) was French nobleman. He was a ruling Lord of Béthune, Richebourg and Warneton, as well as hereditary advocatus of the Abbey of St. Vaast, near Arras.
A farming village located 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Arras on the D58 road. Carency is also the name of the brook which constitutes the course upstream of the Deûle river and which flows through the village.
He joined the administration as secretary of Émile Ollivier, Commissioner General of the Provisional Government in Bouches- du-Rhône. He was adviser to the prefecture of Arras in 1850–51. He joined the cause of Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.
He appears in a contemporary document as count of Erro in 1113. In 1127, he issued a carta de arras for his wife, Elvira. This is his last appearance in the record and he probably died not long after.
Lavoine, A. (1914) La famille de Robespierre et ses origines. Documents inédits sur le séjour des Robespierre à Vaudricourt, Béthune, Harnes, Hénin-Liétard, Carvin et Arras. (1452–1790). In: Revue du Nord, tome 5, n° 18, May 1914. p.
The village is mainly a farming village located 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Arras on the D919 and D46 roads. It is located on the edge of first world war battlefields and munitions are regularly uncovered by farmers.
The Gare de Douai railway station is served by regional trains towards Lille, Arras, Lens, Amiens, Saint-Quentin and Valenciennes. It is also connected to the TGV network, with high speed trains to Paris, Lyon, Nantes and other cities.
Rœux lies on the banks of the Scarpe river about east of Arras at the junction of the D33, D42 and D46 roads. The junction of the A1 and A26 autoroutes is 1/2 mile north of the commune.
Sylvie Cuvilly (born January 10, 1965 in Arras) is a French sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. She was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-4 500 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
From the assassination of Louis d'Orléans in 1407 to the Treaty of Arras in 1435, the House of Armagnac supported French interests against the Dukes of Burgundy allied with the English. The Armagnacs represented the armed wing of France.
Lens (; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is one of the main towns of Hauts-de-France along with Lille, Valenciennes, Amiens, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Arras and Douai. The inhabitants are called Lensois ().
Farndale, p. 265. While 59th Division was withdrawn, its artillery remained in the front line, under the command of 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, with which it fought at the Battles of Arras (28 March) and the Ancre (5 April).
Marley, out of contact with the division, drove to Arras to report to Petreforce HQ and was informed the 23rd Division was concentrating on the outskirts of Lille at Seclin. Transport was provided, and Marley Force made their move.
Wyrall, pp. 215–8. Although 8th EYR was later awarded the Battle honour for the Capture of Roeux that ended the Arras offensive on 13–4 May, it did not actually take part in the fighting.Wyrall, pp. 223, 226.
It was initially assigned to operate in the vicinity of Arras. It was cited in orders on 24 October 1915.Franks et al. 1992, p. 94. On 16 March 1916, the escadrille moved to the front lines near Verdun.
The underground quarries were to be linked up by tunnels so that they could be used both as shelters from the incessant German shelling and as a means of conveying troops to the front in secrecy and safety. From October 1916, the tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers had been constructing tunnels for the troops, including Carrière Wellington, a former underground quarry in Ronville near Arras. The New Zealand Tunnelling Company had carried out a first exploration of the underground quarries in the Ronville and Saint- Sauveur districts of Arras on 5 November 1916. (For a map of the Arras underground system, see here.) While the New Zealanders were moving into place, the 184th Tunnelling Company began work on connection tunnels at Saint- Sauveur on 25 November 1916. Shortly afterwards, on 9 December 1916, 43 Māoris of the Māori Pioneer Battalion joined the New Zealand Tunnelling Company at Carrière Wellington.
In 1868 he married Jessie Kemp (1846-1919) daughter of James Kemp of Manchester. Their son Thomas Arthur Nelson was a Captain in the Lothians and Border Horse in the First World War and was killed at Arras in April 1917.
680), abbess of Hamage Abbey near Arras; Adalsinda, a nun at Hamage (died 714); and Clotsinda (died 714). All are venerated as saints. The couple opened their castle to the poor and disadvantaged. The hermit-monk Richarius was a family friend.
The Third Army was formed in July 1915, the first commander being General Edmund Allenby promoted after commanding the Cavalry Corps and the V Corps. He was replaced after the battle of Arras in May 1917, by General Julian Byng.
He exhibited several works in Canada, France, and the United States. He extensively decorated the Château d'Artigny' ballroom and library for perfume magnate François Coty. In 1930, he painted a large mural for the town hall of Arras, France.Gropper, pp.
His youngest son, Stephen Hugh, died in December 1917 at Étaples from wounds received near Arras and John Lane died due to para-typhoid at the age of 64 whilst at the home of a married daughter in Boksburg, South Africa.
In 1478 he negotiated with cities of Tournai and Cambrai, episcopal lordships of the Holy Roman Empire then under French protection. He played a very important role in negotiating the Treaty of Arras (1482). He died on 18 March 1493.
For some years he lived at Arras as chaplain to a Mr. Sheldon. He served in England briefly in 1635 but was sent back to France because of ill health.Stanton, Richard. A Menology of England and Wales, Burns & Oates, 1887, p.
67th Siege Battery, was a heavy artillery unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed in Scotland during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Arras, Ypres, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.
Nymphaea from Rariorum plantarum historia Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius (Arras, February 19, 1526 – Leiden, April 4, 1609), seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.
Novelli was born in Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France, in 1961. He left school at 14 and worked in a bakery before, at the age of 20, becoming a personal chef to the Rothschild family.
After still further translations, especially in 1598 and 1601, the body was finally placed in the cathedral at Arras. His successor on that see about 695 was St. Abelbert (often confused with St. Emebert, brother of Saint Gudula and St. Reinelda).
After the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted in the South Africa Artillery Regiment. He was killed by shellfire at Arras in northern France in 1917.Rugby Heroes who went to War, bbc.co.uk, November 2008; accessed 9 September 2015.
Andrieu Contredit d'Arras (c. 1200 - 1248) was a trouvère from Arras and active in the Puy d'Arras. "Contredit" is probably a nickname. He wrote mostly grand chants, but also a pastourelle, a lai, and a jeu-parti with Guillaume li Vinier.
At the end of his spell in Slovakia, Coulibaly returned to France, spending the 2015–16 and 2016–17 season with Calais in Championnat de France Amateur, before signing for a second time with Arras for the 2017–18 season.
Wim Arras (born 7 February 1964 in Lier) is a former Belgian cyclist who specialized in sprinting. He won the Paris–Brussels race. His cycling career ended abruptly when he had to retire due to a motorcycle accident in 1990.
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Raoul did not participate in the Papal election, 1216, when Pope Honorius III was elected. He also acted as papal legate to Denmark, Sweden, Sicily, and Bohemia. He died March 26, 1221, in Arras, France.
The command unit was relocated to Brètigny, south of Paris. Oberst Karl Angerstein became the wing's first commanding officer (Geschwaderkommodore) but was replaced on 27 July by Oberstleutnant Hermann Edert. I./StG 3 was formed near Barly, southwest of Arras.
The wing contributed 200 sorties to the Sedan operation. StG 2 and 77 intervened in the Battle of Arras on behalf of Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division. StG 2 advanced into north-eastern France during the ash to the English Channel.
John Nash On 8 April 1917, 92 Bde left the Ancre and moved to the Arras sector where the Battle of Arras began the next day. After a period of training and trench-holding, the brigade moved into assembly trenches opposite Oppy during the night of 2/3 May, under shellfire. The British creeping barrage started at 03.45 and the brigade set off in four waves, in the dark and mist, into severe machine gun fire. 10th Battalion found that in many places the wire had not been cut and had to funnel through the few gaps.
The loss of Vimy Ridge forced the Germans to reassess their defensive strategy in the area. Instead of mounting a counterattack, they pursued a scorched earth policy and retreated to the Oppy–Méricourt line. The failure of the French Nivelle Offensive in the week after the Arras Offensive placed pressure on Field Marshal Douglas Haig to keep the Germans occupied in the Arras sector to minimize French losses. The Canadian Corps participated in several of these actions including the Battle of Arleux and the Third Battle of the Scarpe in late April and early May 1917.
Byng during the battle On 28 May 1916, Byng took command of the Canadian Corps from Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alderson. Formal discussions for a spring offensive near Arras began, following a conference of corps commanders held at the First Army Headquarters on 21 November 1916. In March 1917, the First Army headquarters formally presented Byng with orders outlining Vimy Ridge as the Canadian Corps objective for the Arras Offensive. A formal assault plan, adopted in early March 1917, drew heavily on the briefings of staff officers sent to learn from the experiences of the French Army during the Battle of Verdun.
Richard Smith had served as chaplain to Viscountess Montague, wife of Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu, at Battle Abbey in Sussex, from 1603 to 1609, when he left to go to Paris to study and write at Arras College. Smith was appointed Apostolic Vicar for the whole of England, Wales and Scotland in 1625, the same year that George Leyburn went to Arras. When Smith returned to England, he stayed in Turvey, Bedfordshire, at the house of Lord Montagu. In 1628 a warrant was issued for his arrest. He resigned his post in 1631, when he fled to Paris.
Bapaume itself was a small town linked by rail to Albert and Arras. There were also four major roads running through the town; running to Albert in the south-west, to Peronne in the south-east; to Cambrai in the east and to the north lay Arras. Captured by the forces of Imperial Germany in the early stages of the war, it had been the focus of the British forces on the opening day of the Battle of Somme in 1916. Still in German hands, it had been largely destroyed in early 1917 following their withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line.
The Brighton War Memorial in Brighton, East Sussex, England. Lieutenant Pruett Mullens Dennett was killed in action on 2 June 1918 near Estaires, Nord, France.England & Wales, National Probate Calendar His Sopwith Camel was shot down by Kurt Schönfelder, flying ace of Jasta 7 and credited with 13 aerial victories. (The German pilot was shot down weeks later, on 26 June 1918, when his Fokker D.VII was defeated by Sopwith Camels flown by 210 Squadron.) Dennett is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial at the Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery on the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France.
58th Division's TMBs first went into action at Rivieres, a few miles from Arras, on wire-cutting, where Gunners Gerald Davis and Tom Finch of the Shropshire RHA attached to Y.58 TMB won the Military Medal for continuing to fire their mortar despite their emplacement being subject to heavy counter-bombardment.Martin, p.36. The batteries' other duties at this time included assisting 18-pounder gun batteries and working at forward ammunition dumps. 58th Divisional TMBs were temporarily attached to 51st (Highland) Division for the Arras Offensive, and acted as stretcher-bearers at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on 9 April 1917.
The town's people were converted to Christianity in the late 4th century by Saint Innocent, who was killed in 410 during a barbarian attack on the town. In 499, after the conversion of Clovis I to Catholicism, a diocese (évêché in French) was created in Arras, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras, and given to Saint Vaast (also known as Saint Vedast in English), who remains the diocesan patron saint. Saint Vaast then established an episcopal see and a monastic community. It was suppressed in 580 to found the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cambrai, from which it would reemerge five centuries later.
In the north, the Third Army (General Julian Byng), defended the area from Arras south to the Flesquières Salient. To the south, the Fifth Army (General Hubert Gough) held the line down to the junction with the French at Barisis. The Fifth Army held the longest front of the BEF, with twelve divisions and three cavalry divisions, An average British division in 1918 consisted of and mules, pieces, heavy machine guns, light machine-guns, and wagons, and bicycles, cars and ambulances. In the Weekly Intelligence Summary of 10 March 1918, British intelligence predicted a German offensive in the Arras–St.
In March 1917, the 56th Division was preparing to attack as part of the forthcoming Battle of Arras when patrols discovered that the Germans in front had disappeared – the beginning of their retreat to the Hindenburg Line. At Arras, this retreat was minor, so the attack went in on schedule on 9 April, from old German communication trenches. 167th Brigade attacked with 1/3rd Londons and 8th Middlesex leading, the objective being Neuville-Vitasse. 1/3rd Londons progressed well, two tanks working with the battalion dealing with a strongpoint at Neuville Mill, and reached their objective by 10.00.
However, these bishoprics failed to survive independently. In the late 6th century the bishopric of Arras was connected to that of Cambrai, and at the start of the 7th century the same was done to the bishoprics of Tournai and Noyon. At the end of the 6th century the duchy of Dentelinus was created in the north of what would later constitute Neustria. This duchy presumably included the bishoprics Boulogne, Thérouanne, Arras, Tournai, Cambrai and Noyon, thus the northwestern region between the North Sea and the Silva Carbonaria, an area whose outlines were very similar to the later Flanders.
The burial grounds in Pocklington are believed to date to some time between the eighth to the third or fourth centuries BC. The finds have been ascribed to the Arras culture, an archaeological culture of the Middle Iron Age that is known mainly from East Yorkshire. Previous Arras culture burial sites have been typified by burials in round and square enclosures, as well as chariot burials. The area is known to have been inhabited by a Celtic tribe called the Parisi, so it is possible that the Pockington burials represent either the Parisi or their ancestors.
Melun fought against royal forces in the Battle of Gembloux (1578). His views on the state of affairs gradually became more royalist, in part under the influence of Mathieu Moulart, who had become bishop of Arras in 1577. In 1578 Melun pressed the States General to reconcile with the king, and in 1579 he was among the signatories of the Treaty of Arras, by which Artois recognised the sovereignty of Philip II.Jacques Bernard, Recueil des traitez de paix, de trêve, de neutralité, de suspension d'armes, de confédération, d'alliance, de commerce, de garantie, et d'autres actes publics (The Hague, 1700), p. 421.
Folkestone War Memorial Dover war memorial Tull is commemorated on Bay 7 of the Arras Memorial which commemorates 34,785 soldiers who have no known grave, who died in the Arras sector. His name was added to his parents' gravestone in Cheriton Road Cemetery, Folkestone. His older brother William, of the Royal Engineers, died in 1920, aged 37, and is buried in the cemetery with a CWGC headstone so his death was recognised as a result of his war service. Tull's name appeared on the war memorial at North Board School, Folkestone, unveiled on 29 April 1921.
British First World War Q-ship HMS Tamarisk A total of forty three fast "first-rate" avisos for convoy escort duties. These ships were ordered under 1916 and 1917 building programmes for the French Navy and all were named after places on the Western Front lines. Built in nine different military and civilian dockyards across France, The first of which, Arras, entered commission May 1918. The signing of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 marked the end of the First World War, and the final thirteen planned Arras-class ships were cancelled. The remaining ships were slowly completed from 1919 to 1924.
When the First World War started, the region became a strategic target for the Allies and the Central Powers, mostly because of the coal and mining resources. When the German troops launched their attack from Belgium, the region was one of the first to fall under German occupation. Nevertheless, when the Allies stopped Germany at the Battle of Marne, the front moved back to the area and stabilized near Arras. During the next four years, the region was split in two: the German holding the French Flanders and Cambrai area, the Allied controlling Arras and the Area of Lens.
Seven years later he was promoted to the Privy Council, one of the three Collateral Councils that advised the Governor-General of the Habsburg Netherlands, a post that was at the time held by Don Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga. In the confusion that followed the death of Requesens, Richardot sided with the Dutch Revolt and its leader William the Silent. The move earned him an appointment to the Privy Council of the rebels' Governor-General Archduke Matthias. In that capacity he was sent to Arras to use his local connections to dissuade the States of Artois from joining the Union of Arras.
A battery of 60-pounders deployed during the Battles of Vimy and Arras, 1917. 1/1st Lancashire Hvy Bty had been transferred to 57th HAG on 7 December 1916. It rejoined 29th HAG when it was brought up to six guns, and then on 14 March transferred to 84th HAG with First Army further north, which it joined a week later.. First Army was preparing for participation in the Arras Offensive, and 84th HAG was assigned to I Corps for the attack on Vimy Ridge on 9 April. The concentration of heavy guns was one for every of front.
The Arras counter- attack, 21 May 1940. Instead of divisions, the attack was made by two battalion sized columns, with many tanks of the armoured units already unserviceable. Of the 5th Infantry Division's two brigades, one had been sent to hold the line of the river Scarpe to the east of Arras, together with the 150th Brigade of the 50th Division, while the other was in reserve.Ellis (1) p. 89 The two columns comprised the 6th and 8th Battalions of the Durham Light Infantry (D.L.I.) of 151st Brigade supporting the 4th and 7th Royal Tank Regiment (R.
The Prussian victory at Amiens ended French hopes that the Army of the North could advance on Beauvais. Farre's disorganized and defeated army took shelter in the fortresses of Arras and Lille. Expecting a Prussian pursuit, entire French regiments remained concealed in the forests near Amiens in the days following the battle, hoping to avoid detection and destruction by advancing Prussian troops, but when they realized that the main body of Manteuffel′s army had instead moved off in a different direction, they made their way northeastward to the area within the triangle defined by Arras, Cambrai, and Lille.Hozier, p. 218.
A very different interpretation is offered by Carol Symes, A Common Stage. Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras. (Ithaca and London, 2007), 216-227, who argues that “At least up to 1328,…the Carité and the puy were one and the same, alternative names for the confraternity founded by the jongleurs of Arras and chartered by the cathedral of Notre-Dame during the twelfth century” (218). The statutes of the Puy d'Arras do not survive, only the later ones of the Puy d'Amiens from 1471 shed any light on the nature of laws of the puys.
Though Maximilian was victorious, he was only able to gain the County of Flanders according to the 1482 Treaty of Arras after his wife Mary had suddenly died, while France retained Artois. In her testament, Mary of Burgundy had bequested the Burgundian heritage to her and Maximilian's son, Philip the Handsome. His father, dissatisfied with the terms of the Arras agreement, continued to contest the seized French territories. In 1493, King Charles VIII of France according to the Treaty of Senlis finally renounced Artois, which together with Flanders was incorporated into the Imperial Seventeen Provinces under the rule of Philip.
The New Year of 1917 brought with it a period of severe weather conditions on the Somme plain which led to an unofficial truce between the two sides. In March 1917, the Germans began the withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line (14 March – 5 April) and at the end of March the 2nd Ox and Bucks moved from the Somme to the back areas of Arras. The 2nd Ox and Bucks and other battalions of the regiment saw much involvement in the Arras Offensive (9 April – 16 May), including at the Battles of Scarpe and Arleux. The 2nd Ox and Bucks took part in the battle of Arras from 11 April and had a leading role in the battle of Arleux on 28–29 April: during the battle the battalion protected the right flank of the Canadian 1st Division which was critical to the capture of the village of Arleux and sustained more than 200 casualties.
174th Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I. It served on the Western Front, including the Battles of Arras, Messines and Passchendaele, and the crushing victories of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive in 1918.
The Pope, however, was not fooled, and quashed the election. A new election was ordered, and Lambert of Arras was ordered to preside at the election. The canonically convoked assembly elected Walon (Gualon) the Abbot of Saint-Quentin.Delettre, II, pp. 8-13.
The majority of the route runs close to the A1 autoroute. As a result, north of Senlis the road has been downgraded and re-classified as the RD1017 and RD917. There is a small section of the RN17 remaining between Arras and Lille.
I./KG 53 flew support missions against supply and rail targets in the Reims area. Later targets in Abbeville, Amiens, Rouen and Arras were attacked. I./KG 53 recorded zero losses in the first two days.de Zeng 2007, Vol 1, p. 163.
Will's grave was found in December 1917, after the Allied forces made inroads into German-held territory. He was buried with a cross made from a broken propeller: Will's remains were not reburied. He is commemorated at the Arras Flying Services Memorial.
From Arras it follows the river Scarpe in eastern direction until Douai, where it turns northwest. After Ostricourt it turns north again, entering the agglomeration of Lille. After a total length of 251 km, it reaches its terminus Gare de Lille-Flandres.
Jehan de Grieviler (fl. mid- to late 13th century) was an Artesian cleric and trouvère. Jehan was probably born at Grévillers near Arras. A certain "Grieviler" is mentioned in the necrology (registre) of the Confrérie des jongleurs et des bourgeois d'Arras under 1254.
He joined the French Army in 1939 and was taken prisoner by the Germans. Released after seven months, he joined the French Resistance, where he was a captain, in the Arras area and was three times arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo.
On 29 April it moved to Aire and continued training. On 6 May it moved to the Vimy area and took over front line trenches. On 31 July it moved up to Arras to join in the Hundred Days Offensive.Brander, p. 67.
Robert Maudhuy was a printer and bookseller active in the city of Arras (County of Artois) from the 1590s until his death on 19 July 1632.Georges Lepreux, Gallia typographica (1909), p. 127. He printed at the sign of the Name of Jesus.
During his exile he studied Hebrew at the University of Paris. He returned to Saint-Omer in February 1579, after the Union of Arras had been agreed. On 17 August 1579 he was reinstated as diocesan administrator, and was appointed archdeacon of Artois.
The Nivelle Offensive was planned to begin with a British attack on the Bapaume salient in early April 1917, to assist the main French attacks a week later by holding German troops on the Arras front and diverting reserves from the Aisne.
Virginie Vandamme (born October 19, 1966 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais) is a French sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. She was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-4 500 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Webber was upset that he got the blame for 'aiding and abetting' the 4th Army Commander by suggesting the initial change of plan. After Amiens the Canadian Corps moved to a position east of Arras to face the German ‘Drocourt-Quéant’ defensive line.
A small farming and light industrial town located 8 miles (13 km) east of Arras, on the banks of the Scarpe river, at the junction of the D42, D43 and D46 roads. The A26 autoroute passes by just yards from the commune.
Ladislas Jonart (1594–1674) was a clergyman from the Low Countries who was named in turn bishop of Arras, bishop of Saint-Omer, and archbishop of Cambrai. In the last position he was, ex officio, duke of Cambrai and count of Cambrésis.
Jean-Baptiste Cyprien d'Huez was born in Arras in 1728. His younger brother was Charles-Alexandre d'Huez, who became an architect. Huez studied under Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. He won the second prize for sculpture in 1751, and shared the second prize in 1752.
The only hold-up on 9 April was at Hill 145, near the north end of the Canadian attack, and the capture of this position was completed the next day. Fighting in the southern sector (the Battle of Arras) continued into May.Farndale, pp.
Service RecordHe experienced the Battles of Arras and Passchendaele, witnessed cavalry attacks, bombardments, and the effects of gas, and helped with surgical operations, soup kitchens and mass burials. He was awarded the Military Cross for rescuing wounded soldiers.University of Leeds Brotherton Library.
Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy (, , full name in , ) (Arras, 9 January 1571 – Nové Zámky, 10 July 1621) was a military commander who fought for the Spanish Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War and for the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
Thanks to this victory Arras also booked a spot for the EuroLeague Women 2012–13 season. In EuroCup, Marginean added 16.9 ppg and 4.8 rpg for 10 games. On July 7, 2012, it was reported that the Romanian champions CSM Târgovişte have signed Gabriela Mărginean.
The Canton of Arras-Ouest is a former canton situated in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of northern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.
The Canton of Arras-Sud is a former canton situated in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of northern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.
For the most part, Allied opposition was disorganised. During the battles of Montcornet, Arras, Bolougne, and Calais, Ju 87 operations broke up counterattacks and offered pin-point aerial artillery support for German infantry. The Luftwaffe benefited from excellent ground-to-air communications throughout the campaign.
Those students who had not already made their escape were removed to the Scottish College, where they were detained as prisoners. Daniel, the teachers, and students were confined first at Arras, and then at Doullens in Picardy.Ward, Bernard. "Douai." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 5.
Ceded to France in the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees, Arras has remained part of France ever since. The siege is also notable for the participation of French poet and playwright Cyrano de Bergerac, who was wounded on 8 August in a Spanish attack.
However, in 1638 the French and Dutch simultaneously attacked both ends of the Spanish Netherlands; while results were disappointing, the Spanish were forced onto the defensive. After capturing Hesdin in 1639, the French objective for 1640 was the town of Arras, capital of Artois.
Hussey & Inman pp. 125–126McCarthy pp. 115–116 On 8 May 1917, during the Battle of Arras, the battalion was practically annihilated with the loss of 296 men at Fresnoy, and it did not see action again until 4 October in the Battle of Broodseinde.
At the beginning of 1916 the West Lancashire Division, redesignated 55th (West Lancashire) Division, was reconstituted in France, and 1/5th South Lancashires rejoined it on 6 January, taking its place in 166th (South Lancashire) Brigade and holding a quiet sector south of Arras.
Butler, Alban. "Saint Vedast, Bishop of Arras", The Lives of the Saints, Vol.II, 1866 Extraordinary healings are also attributed to his intercession. The traditional account says that while on the road to Reims, they encountered a blind beggar at the bridge over the river Aisne.
Humbercourt is situated on the D127 road, some southwest of Arras and on the border with the Pas-de-Calais département formed by the Grouches valley. To the north is the Bois de Dessus, but for the most part, the district is flat farm land.
By now the battalion was very tired, and had been reduced to three companies of three platoons each. In May, 2/5th Gloucesters moved to the Arras area for rest and training. Reinforcements permitted D Company to be reformed in July.Barnes, pp. 53–68.
Arras lost 1–4 in the first match that Saya Ndoulou played for them. Saya Ndoulou scored two goals in nine appearances during the 2012–13 Division 1 Féminine. She has been co-captain of the Congo women's national football team, alongside Laure Koléla.
By 11 March Baghdad in Mesopotamia had been occupied by British Empire forces, and an offensive in Macedonia had been launched. In April the Battle of Arras was launched by the British, and the French launched the Nivelle offensive.Falls 1930. Vol. 1 p. 279.
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Commonwealth War Graves Commission."New prize in mathematics", New College News (Oxford University), No. 31, November 2014, p. 4. Lionel was educated at Dartington Hall SchoolDavid Gribble, A Parents' Guide to Progressive Education, Dorling Kindersley, 1985, p. 17.
He was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant on 28 September 1915 and was awarded the Military Cross for actions on 7 February 1917. Captain Coulter was killed in an attack on Croisilles on 20 May 1917. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
I./StG 2 joined the attacks over Arras. The burning oil tanks at Dunkirk. Bomb craters have scarred the landscape The Royal Navy began Operation Dynamo to evacuate the British Army. All three gruppen supported the army in its drive to the Channel ports.
At the end of March 1917 50th (N) Division left the Somme and moved north to the Arras sector, where a new offensive was being planned. Part of the division was engaged in the First Battle of the Scarpe, but 1/4th East Yorkshires did not go into the line until 15 April, when they moved up from Arras in support. The battalion led the division's attack at the Second Battle of the Scarpe, which began on 23 April. The 1/4th East Yorkshires and 1/4th Green Howards went forward at Zero hour (04.45) with 'great dash', supported by tanks of A Section, 10 Company, D Battalion, Tank Corps.
His other play, Le jeu Adan or Le jeu de la Feuillee (ca. 1262), is a satirical drama in which he introduces himself, his father and the citizens of Arras with their peculiarities. His works include a congé, or satirical farewell to the city of Arras, and an unfinished chanson de geste in honour of Charles of Anjou, Le roi de Sicile, begun in 1282; another short piece, Le jeu du pelerin, is sometimes attributed to him. His known works include thirty-six chansons (literally, "songs"), forty-six rondets de carole, eighteen jeux-partis, fourteen rondeaux, five motets, one rondeau-virelai, one ballette, one dit d'amour, and one congé.
When war did break out in September 1939, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) deployed to France and assumed responsibility for the Arras sector, which included Vimy. In late May 1940, following the British retreat to Dunkirk after the Battle of Arras, the status and condition of the memorial became unknown to Allied forces. The Germans took control of the site and held the site's caretaker, George Stubbs, in an Ilag internment camp for Allied civilians in St. Denis, France. The rumoured destruction of the Vimy Memorial, either during the fighting or at the hands of the Germans, was widely reported in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Rawlinson replaced Gough, who was "Stellenbosched" (sacked) despite having organised a long and reasonably successful retreat given the conditions. The German attack against the Third Army was less successful than that against the Fifth Army. The German 17th Army east of Arras advanced only during the offensive, largely due to the British bastion of Vimy Ridge, the northern anchor of the British defenses. Although Below made more progress south of Arras, his troops posed less of a threat to the stronger Third Army than the Fifth Army, because the British defences to the north were superior and because of the obstacle of the old Somme battlefield.
Bryan was 35 years old, and a lance- corporal in the 25th (Service) Battalion (2nd Tyneside Irish), Northumberland Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War at the Battle of Arras when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 9 April 1917 near Arras, France, during an attack Lance-Corporal Bryan although wounded, went forward alone in order to silence a machine-gun which was inflicting much damage. He worked his way along the communication trench, approached the gun from behind, disabled it and killed two of the team. The results obtained by Lance-Corporal Bryan's action were very far-reaching.
When the French armies met the British advancing from the Arras front, the Germans would be pursued towards Belgium and the German frontier. The offensive began on 9 April, when the British began the Battle of Arras. On 16 April, the (GAR, Reserve Army Group) attacked the Chemin des Dames and the next day, the Fourth Army, part of (GAC, Central Army Group), near Reims to the south-east, began the Battle of the Hills. The Chemin des Dames ridge had been quarried for stone for centuries, leaving a warren of caves and tunnels which were used as shelters by German troops to escape the French bombardment.
For Third Army's forthcoming Arras Offensive, CCXCIII Bde was attached to 56th (1/1st London) Division. The Germans partly forestalled this offensive by withdrawing to the Hindenburg Line, but near Arras they only went back a short distance to a new line behind Neuville Vitasse. The bombardment began on 4 April. CCXCIII's main task before the attack was wire-cutting; then on 8 April a rehearsal of the barrage was carried out with an unlimited supply of ammunition and the barrage proper on 9 April. 56th Division attacked Neuville Vitasse at 07.45 on 9 April with tank support, leapfrogging its battalions across successive objectives.
While he's there, Doll herself arrives; Bellamont has Jenkins hide behind the arras,Eavesdropping from behind an arras is a recurring feature of English Renaissance drama; Polonius in Hamlet, Act III scene iv is the most famous instance, though there are very many others. and Doll reveals the truth about herself. Jenkins exposes her to her other "gulls," and Doll and company find it expedient to leave the city; they flee northwards. Featherstone, in pursuing his own sexual and financial goals, has set himself and the Greenshields on a trip to Ware; Bellamont and the Mayberrys travel along as part of their revenge plan.
By 23 November, reinforcements reaching the 2nd Army were sufficient for two new groups, based on the XXIII Reserve Corps (Gruppe Busigny) to the south of Gruppe Caudry, opposite the British VII Corps and Gruppe Lewarde (XVIII Corps), which took over the right hand divisions of Gruppe Arras. Eighteen divisions were massed on the Cambrai front, for the 30 November counter-offensive. Ten divisions were considered battle worthy, although most of the divisions in Gruppe Arras were exhausted from the defensive battles around Bourlon Wood. The 79th Reserve Division was in 2nd Army reserve and eight more divisions were available in the Army Group and OHL reserves.
The French Third Army began the offensive against German observation points at St. Quentin from 1 to 13 April, which took some of the German defences in front of the . On 9 April, the British Third Army began the Battle of Arras from Croisilles to Ecurie, against Observation Ridge, north of the Arras–Cambrai road and towards Feuchy and the German second and third lines. The British attack either side of the Scarpe river penetrated , the furthest advance achieved since the beginning of trench warfare. Most of the objectives were reached by the evening of 10 April, except for the line between Wancourt and Feuchy around Neuville-Vitasse.
The Battle of Arras took place on May 9, 1915, during World War One. The so- called Bayonne Legion (a French Foreign Legion infantry unit which consisted of ethnic Polish volunteers) clashed with troops of the Imperial German Army, defending the hill of Vimy, located 10 kilometers north of Arras, France. In August 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War, several ethnic Poles living in France volunteered to join French Foreign Legion, hoping that a separate, Polish unit would be created within that formation. On August 21, 1914, French authorities agreed to the request of Committee of Polish Volunteers, and soon afterwards, two Polish units were formed.
They would far prefer a broader based union, still based on the Pacification and the "religious peace", which both the unions of Utrecht and Arras implicitly rejected. However, by the time of the Treaty of Arras it was clear that the split had hardened, and Orange signed the Union of Utrecht on 3 May 1579 while encouraging the Flemish and Brabant cities in Protestant hands to also join the Union.Israel (1995), pp. 201–2 At this time, on the initiative of Emperor Rudolph II a final attempt was made to attain a general peace between Philip and the States-General in the German city of Cologne.
M.H. Archer, H. Baber, J.A. Baxter, W.H.F. Atkin, D.C. Bates, was in the 58th and was killed at the Mericourt front W.H. Bennett, N.J. Brown, "Jack" was killed in a raid just before Vimy. He was in the 58th. W.E.A. Brown, "Alway" joined the 75th in February 1918; he was wounded July 20, 1918 and killed in action near Arras September 4 of the same year. D.B. Carr, W. Colquhoun, R.J.D. Conklin, "Bob" went to the 19th battalion with a draft from the 198th when the Fifth Division was broken up, and was wounded at Arras August 16, 1918, dying of his wounds in No. 1 CCS three days after.
The arrondissement of Lens was created in 1962 from part of the arrondissement of Béthune.Historique du Pas-de-CalaisDécret n°62-6 du 10 janvier 1962 In January 2007 it absorbed the two cantons of Avion and Rouvroy from the arrondissement of Arras. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Pas-de-Calais, it gained eight communes from the arrondissement of Arras, and it lost one commune to the arrondissement of Béthune. As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements.
In April the British launched the Arras Offensive and the Dublin Fusiliers took part in the two battles of the Scarpe that took place in April. The 10th Dublins took part in the Battle of Arleux (28–29 April) that saw the Dublins last involvement in a major battle of the Arras offensive. Half of the French Army, exhausted and angry at the enormous losses it had sustained, mutinied, refusing to fight unless it was to defend against German attacks. This compelled the British Army to take the leading role, and this would see the Dublin Fusiliers take part in further offensives before the year ended.
Joffre maintained the French emphasis on the western flank, after receiving intercepted wireless messages, which showed that the Germans were moving an army to the western flank. Joffre continued to send units to the Second Army, north of the Sixth Army. On 24 September, the Second Army was attacked and found difficulty in holding ground, rather than advancing round the German flank as intended. General Ferdinand Foch ordered the left flank of the French armies to move northward to Arras, Lens and Lille, to recreate a threat to the German northern flank, by moving through Arras to Cambrai and Le Cateau and from Lens to Valenciennes and Maubeuge.
In his serventois, a complainte on the death his patron Gherart Aniel, he asked Pierre and Wagon Wion to help him obtain the patronage of the bankers Henri and Robert Crespin. His relationship with two Arras trouvères is apparent in his lyrics, Guillaume le Vinier and Jehan Bretel. He is also mentioned in a work of Guibert Kaukesel, a canon of Arras. The chief characteristic of Erart's poetry is his preference for short lines, mostly penta-, hexa-, hepta-, and octosyllabic, as opposed to the traditional decasyllable, which does occur in his chansons "Pré ne vergier ne boscaige foillu" and "Encoire sui cil ki a merchi s'atent" and his serventois "Nus chanters".
The major British assault of the first day was directly east of Arras, with the 12th Division attacking Observation Ridge, north of the Arras—Cambrai road. After reaching this objective, they were to push on towards Feuchy, as well as the second and third lines of German trenches. At the same time, elements of the 3rd Division began an assault south of the road, with the taking of Devil's Wood, Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines and the Bois des Boeufs as their initial objectives. The ultimate objective of these assaults was the Monchyriegel, a trench running between Wancourt and Feuchy and an important component of the German defences.
Two companies of the 8th DLI and two troops of the 260th Anti-Tank Battery were left to garrison the village and then the depleted column captured Warlus against stronger opposition and had to leave another garrison behind. Berneville to the south was also captured and a party of the 7th RTR and 8th DLI pressed on to the Arras–Doullens road, where they met part of and troops of the SS-Totenkopf Division. The British were forced under cover by machine-gun and mortar fire and the attacked the Right Column for twenty minutes. Junkers Ju 87 belonging to I, and III , Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 dive-bombed British forces at Arras.
Frieser wrote that the Franco-British counter-attack at Arras, had a disproportionate effect on the Germans because the higher commanders were apprehensive about flank security. Ewald von Kleist, the commander of perceived a "serious threat" and informed Colonel-General Franz Halder (Chief of the General Staff of OKH), that he had to wait until the crisis was resolved before continuing. Colonel- General Günther von Kluge, the 4th Army commander ordered the tanks to halt, with the support of Rundstedt. On 22 May, when the attack had been repulsed, Rundstedt ordered that the situation at Arras must be restored before moved on Boulogne and Calais.
A single chariot burial is recorded on the site which is now accessioned to the Yorkshire Museum. The vast majority of skeletons were aligned on a north- south axis; a trait evident across Arras Culture sites and all were recorded as being found in a crouched position.
The palace turned into a Royal residence when the Duchy of Burgundy was occupied by the Kingdom of France after the death of Charles the Bold, in 1477, and the treaty of Arras of 1482 between the king Louis XI and Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
Dame Margot (fl. 13th century) was a trouvère from Arras, in Picardy, France. One extant work of hers is jeu parti, a debate song, in which she debates Dame Maroie. This song, "Je vous pri, dame Maroie," survives in two manuscripts,F-AS MS 657, f.
She managed to win in the 2012 French Cup handing a 58-64 loss to Bourges to take the trophy. Mărginean was one of the best Arras players in the final. She scored 11 points and pulled down 6 rebounds for 35 minutes on the court.
A, "le Bossu d'Arras" and "Adam d'Arras", suggest that he came from Arras, France. The sobriquet "the Hunchback" was probably a family name; Adam himself points out that he was not one.Robert Falck, "Adam de la Halle", s.v., Grove Music Online (subscription access), visited 25 March 2007.
"A Chat about Mr. H. J. Goodwin", Cricket, 5 May 1910, pp. 97–98. After Cambridge he became a solicitor. During World War I he was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery and was killed at Arras, France, where he is buried at the Faubourg-d'Amiens cemetery.
The charter, carta de arras, noting this gift is in the archives of Valladolid. In it Rodrigo refers to Urraca as Fernandi Garcie et infantisse domine Stephanie filie, "daughter of Fernando Garcés and the infantissa Doña Estefanía."Salazar Acha (1991); Canal Sánchez-Pagín (1984), 39, 52–53.
The road passes Villers-Bocage passing through open countryside. After Beauval the road drops into the Authie valley and the town of Doullens. The road turns east thereafter and passes several British War Cemeteries. The road passes Beaumetz-lès-Loges before reaching the outskirts of Arras.
Bullecourt 1917, Jean and Denise Letaille museum, is a French museum, located in Bullecourt. It is a military museum about the First World War, and the nearby Battle of Arras in particular. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Raymond Reaux (born 18 December 1940) is a retired French cyclist. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the individual road race and finished in 50th place. He finished second in the Paris-Arras race in 1959 and in the Circuit Franco-Belge race in 1963.
He gained a reputation as a preacher in both Paris and the Low Countries. In 1553 he was sent to Rome as definitor of his province at the general chapter. On returning to the Low Countries he was elected prior of the Dominican house in Arras.
Part of First Army was engaged at Arras on 28 March 1918 (Operation Mars), the second phase of the German Spring Offensive, when the British heavy artillery replied with devastating CB fire.Becke, Pt 4, pp. 74–8.Blaxland, pp. 84-6.Farndale, Western Front, p. 275.
Arrouaise lay between Bapaume and Arras. Gosse, the 18th century historian of the community, portrays the region as bandit country in the early Middle Ages.Gosse, p.8-10 He specifies the arrival in 1090 of Heldemar of Tournai and the German Conon or KunoHeldemar at augustiniancanons.
In 1925 and 1929, Hoppin gave a one-man show of his watercolors in New York. He largely painted on location at visits to Soissons, Rheims, Arras, Ypres, Rome, Paris, Newport and Bar Harbor, Maine. He produced dozens of watercolors usually of architectural subjects or of gardens.
By arranging a battery of these projectors and firing them simultaneously, a dense concentration of gas could be achieved. The Livens was first used at Arras on 4 April 1917. On 31 March 1918 the British conducted their largest ever "gas shoot", firing 3,728 cylinders at Lens.
No other guns were brought to bear on them, and they held the ground they had retaken. 33rd Divisional Artillery was relieved on 5 September after 8 weeks' continuous action and moved to the Arras sector.Macartney-Filgate, pp. 45–51.Miles, 1916, Vol II, pp. 202–7.
This was intended to shorten the German front, freeing 10 divisions for other duties. This line of fortifications ran from Arras south to St Quentin and shortened the front by about . British long-range reconnaissance aircraft first spotted the construction of the Hindenburg Line in November 1916.
5(1): 19-22. Victoria University. Wellington, New Zealand. The British forces controlling Arras had decided to re-use the ancient underground quarries in the town to aid a planned offensive against the Germans, whose trenches ran through what are now the eastern suburbs of the town.
He died on his first active mission after being shot down over France in 1917.In Memoriam: de Ross, The Argus, (Thursday, 14 February 1918), p.1. He is commemorated at the Arras Flying Services Memorial.Second Lieutenant Adam Gower Sutherland de Ross, Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
LAC -War Diary: 8th Canadian Siege Battery. Reviewed 16.10.2015 It moved forward during the Hundred Days Offensive, taking up successive positions at Rosieres and Cagnicourt (Arras Front), supporting the Battle of Canal du Nord, and continued north for engagements during the Capture of Cambria, into October 1918.
D. Martin, pp. 33–5. On 9 February the battalion went into the line for the first time, at Ransart, south of Arras. This was considered a quiet sector, and the 2/4th were introduced to trench warfare by units of the 49th (West Riding) Division.
The Chartreuse Notre-Dame des Prés was a Carthusian monastery (Charterhouse) in northern France, at Neuville-sous-Montreuil, in the Diocese of Arras, now Pas-de-Calais. The charter of foundation is dated from the chateau d'Hardelot on 15 July, 1324; the church was consecrated in 1338.
2, (1900), lxxiii-lxxxiv, 116-7, 280. A chasuble embroidered with the royal arms, with an alb, and an altar frontal of arras- work were provided in March 1505, and the building work continued.Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 3 (1901), 78-79.
After the Second Battle of Bullecourt (3–17 May), the Arras sector became a quiet front, that typified most of the war in the west, except for attacks on the Hindenburg Line and around Lens, culminating in the Canadian Battle of Hill 70 (15–25 August).
Much of the network has now collapsed and most of the rest is extremely unsafe. With the sponsorship of the Arras town council, the regional council and the French state, one section around the Carrière Wellington was restored and converted into a museum at a cost of €4 million.
The French Seventh Army had closed up to German positions from Péronne to Amiens, ready to cross the river on 23 May. GHQ ordered an attack by the 1st Armoured Division, to combine with the Anglo-French operations at the Battle of Arras which had begun on 21 May.
Grauert's I. Fliegerkorps contributed to 300 sorties over Arras. Loerzer and Greim protected Guderian along the Aisne, the former supporting the 2nd and 12th armies. Sperrle's subordinates flew only seven operations against airfields from 20 to 23 May, but 54 against rail stations and another 47 against localities.
Louis called a great assembly at Arras and had Thierry excommunicated but it was a gesture. Louis abandoned William of Clito, who died during a siege at Alost on 27 July 1128, and after the whole country finally submitted to Thierry, Louis was obliged to confirm his claim.
The ivory's early history is unrecorded. It derives its name from its first known owner, the antiquarian Louis-François Harbaville (1791-1866), who inherited it from his in-laws, the Beugny de Pommeras family of Arras. It was purchased for the Louvre in 1891 from Harbaville's grandsons and heirs.
A farming village located 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Arras on the D1 road. The small river Crinchon passes through the commune. Canadian forces were billetted here during World War I. 9th (Service) Battalion Devonshire Regiment also billeted here during WW1. 19 August 1917 was Battalion Sports Day.
This farming and light industrial town is located 12 miles (19 km) east of Arras on the N50 road, at the junction with the D44 and D307, by the banks of the Scarpe river. A celebration of the potato takes place annually on the 1st Sunday in September.
Count John IV sold it to the King of France in 1370. After the Treaty of Arras (1435) between Charles VII of France and Philip III of Burgundy, it returned once again to the latter. In 1477, with the annexion of Burgundy, it became definitively part of France.
195, 221–2. After hostilities ceased, the battalion was assigned to 171st Bde, clearing and evacuating stores in the Arras area, where demobilisation began in January 1919. By the end of March the units had been reduced to cadres and the last left France in June.Wylly, p. 222.
On 20 June 33rd DA was finally withdrawn from the Arras sector after three months' action. Because CLXII brigade had always been the furthest forward, the Commander-in- Chief, Sir Douglas Haig awarded it the unusual distinction of presenting a captured 5.9-inch German howitzer.Macartney-Filgate, pp. 87–99.
Map of the historical extent of Picardy within modern French borders The historical province of Picardy stretched from north of Noyon to Calais via the whole of the Somme department and the north of the Aisne department. The province of Artois (Arras area) separated Picardy from French Flanders.
On 6 January 1579 the provinces loyal to the Spanish Monarchy signed the defensive Union of Arras, expressed their loyalty to Philip II and recognized Farnese as Governor-General of the Netherlands.Israel p.191 In contrast, the provinces loyal to the Protestant cause signed the defensive Union of Utrecht.
Artois University (Université d'Artois) is a French university based in Arras. It is under the umbrella of the Academy of Lille and is a member of the European Doctoral College Lille-Nord-Pas de Calais and of the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France.
He praised the city of Arras in '. Andrieu twice refers to himself as messire (mister), a title reserved for nobility. His blason had once decorated chansonnier known as MS 844 in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, but it has now been lost. Andrieu's verses show little variation of form.
Wells sailed for France on 8 Aug 1916. He visited the French front at Soissons, then went to Udine via Venice. He returned to France via Verona and Milan, visiting Arras, Dompierre, Fricourt, and Albert.Michael Sherborne, H. G. Wells: Another Kind of Life (Peter Owen, 2010), p. 233.
Darling, p. 8 and both the First Battle of the Marne and the First Battle of the Aisne in September 1914.Darling, p. 33 It went on fight at the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914,Darling, p. 41 the Battle of Arras in April 1917Darling, p.
Mamy Ndiaye (born 26 November 1986 in Pikine) is a Senegalese women's international footballer who plays as a forward. She is a member of the Senegal women's national football team, and has played for IFK Kalmar in Sweden, Zaragoza CFF in Spain and Inter Arras FCF in France.
André Tassin (born 23 February 1902 in Arras, Pas de Calais - died 12 July 1986 in Reims, Champagne-Ardenne) is a retired French footballer. He played as goalkeeper for RC France. A reserve for Alex Thépot at the 1930 FIFA World Cup, Tassin played for France in 1932.
The Battle of the Somme, fought along a front from north of the Somme River between Arras and Albert. It was fought between July 1 and November 18 and involved over 2 million men. The French suffered 200,000 casualties. Little territory was gained, only at the deepest points.
Danel 1967, pp. 7, 10. The French Air Force found a use for the Potez 633 aircraft as conversion trainers for units that had received the Breguet 691 attack aircraft. On 20 May 1940, three Potez 633s took part in a strafing mission against German troops near Arras.
The first, what is now known as the Battle of Albert, was to be an attack across a front from the village of Puiseux towards the Albert–Arras railway. The New Zealand Division, commanded by Major General Andrew Russell, played a limited role in this action, being limited to the New Zealand Rifle Brigade supporting the main attack which was to be carried out by the 37th Division on 21 August. The New Zealanders, along with the 42nd Division, on its right, were expected to bring the right flank in line with the left. Then the 5th and 63rd were to pass through the lines of the 37th Division and move onto and beyond the Albert-Arras railway.
Daret spent 15 years as a pupil in the studio of Robert Campin, alongside Rogier or Rogelet de le Pasture (assumed by scholars to be Rogier van der Weyden), and afterwards became a master in his own right. He became a favorite of the Burgundian court, and his patron for 20 years was the abbot of St. Vaast in Arras, Jean de Clercq. Though many works of Daret are mentioned in Jean de Clercq's account books, only four panels have survived: all are from the so-called Arras Altarpiece or Saint-Vaast Altarpiece, painted for the abbot between 1433 and 1435. These paintings show a striking resemblance to the Flemish realism of the Master of Flémalle.
The representatives of the parties to the Union of Arras already on 8 December 1578 (so before the Declaration of 6 January 1579 was sworn to) agreed on a first draft of the treaty. This was followed by a second draft of 9 January 1579 and a third draft of 6 April 1579. Then on 17 May 1579 the Treaty was signed between the representatives of Parma and the members of the Union of Arras. But still the negotiations had not ended and Parma succeeded to wrest a number of further concessions from the treaty partners, which resulted in the version of 12 September 1579, which was ratified by king Philip and promulgated in Mons.
As the promised Mark IV tanks had not arrived by early 1917, it was decided, despite the protestations of Stern (see below), to ship the 25 training vehicles in Britain to France, where they joined the other 20 Mark IIs and 15 Mark Is at the Battle of Arras in April 1917. The Germans were able to pierce the armour of both the Mark I and Mark II tanks at Arras with their armour-piercing machine gun ammunition. The Mark II was built from December 1916 to January 1917 by Foster & Co and Metropolitan (25 Male and 25 Female respectively). Five Mark IIs were taken for experiments on improved powerplants and transmission.
England and Burgundy had been allies against France in the Hundred Years' War since 1419. But when the English walked out of peace talks during the Congress of Arras in 1435, the Duke of Burgundy stayed and concluded the Treaty of Arras with the French King on 21 September 1435, thus switching sides in the war. The Duke's betrayal caused an outrage among the English, and the London populace was allowed to plunder possessions of Flemish, Dutch and Picard merchants in the city, all subjects of the Duke of Burgundy. There was also an incursion in the Duke's territories by an English force of 2000 men, who defeated 1500 Flemish soldiers under Jean II de Croÿ in the Boulonnais.
The brigade served for the rest of the First World War in the trenches of the Western Front in Belgium and France, fighting a diversionary attack, alongside 46th (North Midland) Division, on the Gommecourt salient, to distract German attention away from the Somme offensive a few miles south in July 1916. In March 1917, the 56th Division pursued the German Army during their retreat to the Hindenburg Line in March 1917, Arras, Langemarck, Passchendaele, Cambrai, First Arras, Albert and the Hundred Days Offensive. The First World War finally came to an end with the signing of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. By the end of the war the 56th Division had suffered nearly 35,000 casualties.
Lens v. GuingampFond d'écran: William Rémy Rémy also appeared in his club's upset loss to Championnat de France amateur 2 side and lesser rivals Arras Football in the Coupe de France coming on as a substitute in the 81st minute and playing the entire extra time session before watching his club bow out 4–2 on penalties.Lens v. Arras Match Report In August 2011 Rémy had a trial at Newcastle United along with Darnel Situ. Both Remy and Situ scored in their debut for the reserves in a 5–0 victory over Gateshead. After four years with Lens, Rémy moved to the Ligue 2 side Dijon FCO on a three-year contract.
During the next stages of the Arras offensive, CCXCIII Bde was variously attached to 56th, 9th (Scottish), 34th and 31st Divisions. At one stage German counter-attacks reached to within 1,000 yards of the battery positions and the guns were prepared for individual defence before the enemy attack was halted and the battery positions could be shifted back. After further spells supporting 2nd Canadian, 7th and 62nd (2nd West Riding) Divisions during the closing stages of the Arras offensive, the brigade was withdrawn to a relatively quiet location in the St Quentin sector. Although the Shropshire Battery was shelled out of its first position, it relocated to a well-camouflaged site behind a sugar factory and remained there unmolested.
The area was otherwise devoid of Allied units, so there was little alternative. The three divisions were grouped together in an improvised corps called Petreforce and on 18 and 19 May, the Territorials, lacking motor transport, began to march or entrain towards their defence positions. The 70th Brigade of the 23rd Division dug in on the Canal Line but was ordered to withdraw towards Saulty on 20 May; in the process they were caught in the open by elements of 6th and 8th Panzer Divisions, from which only a few hundred survivors escaped. The 69th Brigade defended Arras and the 12th Division fought to delay 2nd Panzer Division on the Canal Line near Arras, at Doullens, Albert and Abbeville.
The relief of the French Tenth Army by the British First Army (General Charles Monro) and Third Army (Lieutenant-General Edmund Allenby) was accomplished by early March 1916. The French had held about of front from Ransart in the south, east of Arras, west of Vimy, east of Souchez, west of Lens and east of Loos in the north. The southern portion of the line up to Arras had been quiet since the battles of manoeuvre in September 1914 and an informal truce had developed. Further north, in the area of the three great battles of Artois in 1914 and 1915, hostilities had continued and on 8 February, the Germans captured of trench south of Central Avenue (Ave).
In March 1917 the 56th Division was preparing to attack as part of the forthcoming Battle of Arras when patrols discovered that the Germans in front had disappeared – the beginning of their retreat to the Hindenburg Line. At Arras this retreat was minor, so the attack went in on schedule on 9 April, from old German communication trenches, where the 1/4th Londons hurriedly had to dig fresh assembly trenches. The battalion was in support for the attack, B Company advancing to 'mop up' behind the Rangers and 1/13th Londons (Kensingtons)), the remainder moving forward in the afternoon to fill a gap in the line and then consolidate.Grimwade, pp. 253–63.
In 1917 the BEF's attacks moved along the front, they operated in the Pas-de-Calais during the Battle of Arras. They then concentrated in Belgium for the Battle of Messines and the Battle of Passchendale, and ended the year back in the Pas-de-Calais for the Battle of Cambrai.
The Spanish custom of Las arras, when the bridegroom gives his bride thirteen coins after exchanging vows, has its origins in the Mozarabic rite and is still practised in former Spanish colonies in Latin America and in the Philippines, as well as Hispanic Catholic parishes in the United States and Canada.
It fought its way out of Arras via Douai that night as the BEF scrambled to form a defensive ring round Dunkirk.Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter VIII. 50th (N) Division was then thrown into a gap left near Ypres when the Belgian Army surrendered.Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter IX.Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter XII.
After this period the fame of the abbey gradually declined, until the monastic revival originating from the Bursfelde Congregation brought fresh life in the 15th century. In 1569 Lobbes, St. Vaast's Abbey in Arras, and several other abbeys, were combined to form the Benedictine Congregation of Exempt Monasteries of Flanders.
Soldiers from the company also deployed to Afghanistan with Somme Company in 2007 (Operation Herrick 7), Amiens Company in 2010 (Operation Herrick 12) and Arras Company in 2011 (Operation Herrick 13). The London Irish Rifles moved from their historic home, Duke of York's Headquarters, Chelsea to Flodden Road, Camberwell in 2000.
He was still serving in the household of the bishop in 1232. In 1243 he was named as a priest and chaplain to the bishop. In 1245 he was the doyen of Lens. In Arras he associated with the poets Simon d’Authie, Pierre de Corbie, Guillaume Le Vinier, and Jehan Bretel.
Apprehension about another Franco-British counter-attack led to the "Arras halt order" being issued by the German higher commanders on 21 May. The neighbouring XV (General Hermann Hoth) was held back in reserve and a division of the XLI was moved eastwards, when the corps was only from Dunkirk.
Scene 1 At the battlefield in Arras, the soldiers are asleep. Christian, Carbon and Le Bret are among them, and Le Bret awakens to find Cyrano running to the camp from enemy lines. He has gone out every day to deliver "Christian's" letters to Roxane. De Guiche arrives and chastises them.
The Shropshire Battery moved into the sugar refinery in Neuville Vitasse on 10 April, but as the battle moved on it was left out of range. This phase of the Battle of Arras (the 1st Battle of the Scarpe) ended on 16 April.Farndale, Western Front, p. 168.Ward, pp. 114–31.
Danse d'une nymphe et d'un satyre, Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts On his return to France he was patronized by the Court, became a member of the French Academy in 1682, and Professor in 1695. He died in Paris, April 21, 1718.Some sources give his date of death as 1715.
The tactics and counter-tactics required deeper and deeper tunnelling, hence more time and more stable front lines were also required, so offensive and defensive military mining largely ceased. Underground work continued, with the tunnellers concentrating on deep dugouts for troop accommodation, a tactic used particularly in the Battle of Arras.
His DH.5 is believed to have been shot down by the German flying ace Otto Könnecke. His body was not recovered, but he is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial in France. At least one other prominent Argentine cricketer – John Campbell – was also killed in the war.John Campbell – CricketArchive.
She played in France in 2008/2009 with Arras Pays d'Artois Basket Féminin in the Fédération Française de Basket-Ball, and in the American Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2011–2013 seasons, before being traded to the Seattle Storm for the 2014 season.
On 21 March 1918, the New Zealand Tunnelling Company was present at Arrasduring the large German Spring Offensive, and began work on trenches south-west of the town. From May to July, the unit returned to constructing underground shelters beneath the British trenches. The unit stayed in Arras until 14 July.
Most arrived in a state of circulatory collapse unable to withstand surgery. During the Battle of Arras in April–May 1917, Gray used Thomas Splints exclusively, which immobilised fractures much more effectively. Patients reached casualty clearing stations in good clinical condition and fit to undergo limb and life saving surgery.
Grist, p. 203. While the Ypres fighting continued, 2/5th Gloucesters moved by train to the Arras sector, where C Company carried out a trench raid on 23 October.Barnes, pp. 73–7. In late November 61st (2nd SM) Division moved south to relieve exhausted British formations after the Battle of Cambrai.
He was wounded near Arras on Aug. 16th, 1918 and died on Aug. 21st. G.A. Tucker, W.G. Tyrrell, J.W. Ward, R.S. Waldron, - Walker, F.E. Warner, G. Wesley, A.D. White, J. Woodgate, H. Worthington went to the Divisional Signaller when the 201st was broken up and went overseas in November 1916.
Général Maxime Weygand - Turenne (Flammarion, 1929) pp. 76-8. This was Louis XIV's first victory against a foreign army. Cyrano de Bergerac, who is the subject of the classic French play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, participated in a siege of Arras in 1640, and not the battle of 1654.
Transmar was a 10th-century bishop of Tournai and Noyon. Before his appointment to the dual see in 937, he was a monk in the Abbey of Saint-Vaast in Arras and served as provost of his monastery.J. Warichez, "Transmare", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 25 (Brussels, 1932), 520-521.
The British Museum. Retrieved 8 March 2012. The majority of Iron Age chariot burials in Britain are associated with the Arras culture, and in most cases the chariots were dismantled before burial. Exceptions are the Ferrybridge and Newbridge chariots, which are the only ones found to have been buried intact.
Philip served as an enlisted man in the Royal Scots during the First World War. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers on 2 April 1917 and was killed less than a month later on the Western Front. Philip is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Lee Township is home to Arras Lake, Berube Lake, Burl Lakes, Knight Lake, Lillord Lake, Nausikaa Lake, Sarsfield Lake, Tomwool Lake, and Verona Lake, and parts of Cariad Lake, Gould Lake, Meyers Lake and Swan Lake. Lillord Creek, Sarsfield Creek and Tomwool Creek flow all or in part through the township.
Arras Lake is a small lake in geographic Lee Township in the Unorganized West Part of Timiskaming District, in northeastern Ontario, Canada. The lake is in the James Bay drainage basin and is on Tomwool Creek. The nearest community is Bourkes, to the northeast. The lake is about long and wide.
The 6th Panzer Division signalled that "a strong enemy force was making a breakthrough" which caused alarm . Kleist ordered the 6th Panzer Division and 8th Panzer Division eastwards to counter the Allied breakthrough. In the aftermath the Germans treated the Battle of Arras as a minor defeat for the Allies.
In 1914, it fought in the Allied Great Retreat. It fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and the Battle of Arras in 1917. The division served in the 1918 German Spring Offensive and the subsequent Allied counteroffensives, including the Hundred Days Offensive and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
Robert Mercier (14 October 1909 – 23 September 1958) was a French footballer. He played for Club Français, RC Paris, RC Arras and Stade Rennais. Alongside Walter Kaiser, he was Ligue 1 first top goalscorer with 15 goals in 1932-33. After his playing career, he became a coach with FC Dieppe .
123rd Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed in 1916 during World War I. It served on the Western Front, including the Battles of Arras, Passchendaele, Cambrai and the crushing victories of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive in 1918. Post war, the battery was disbanded in 1919.
A Last Supper is in San Nicola in Carcere. There is a Saint Stephen in the Cathedral at Perugia, and in that of Loreto a Saint Catherine. The Giustizia (Justice) hall at the Rocca dei Rossi was completely frescoed by Baglione. A series of paintings of Apollo and the Muses is in Arras.
Apprehension about another Franco-British counter-attack led to the Arras halt order being issued by the German higher commanders on 21 May. The neighbouring XV Corps (General Hermann Hoth) was held back in reserve and a division of the XLI Korps was moved eastwards, when the corps was only from Dunkirk.
Elisabeth (French: Élisabeth), also known as Isabelle Mabille (1143 – Arras, 28 March 1183), was ruling Countess of Vermandois from 1168 to 1183, and also Countess of Flanders by marriage to Philip I, Count of Flanders. She was the eldest daughter of Ralph I, Count of Vermandois and his second spouse, Petronilla of Aquitaine.
After reorganisation, 8th Division moved to the Arras sector, where the pioneers worked on trenches and railways while the division was engaged in the Battle of the Scarpe in August. A number of casualties were suffered from German Mustard Gas shelling. The division was engaged in diversionary attacks in September.Dunn, pp. 180–2.
Returning to France with the rank of Brigadier General he commanded 2nd infantry Brigade fighting battles at Ypres Salient, Somme, Vimy Ridge, Arlleux, Hill 70, and Passohendale during 1916 and 1917. In 1918 he was engaged in battles at Amiens and Arras. He was promoted to Major General3rd Canadian Division page at canadiansoldiers.
Damiens's infamy endured. Forty years after his death, the memory of Arras's most notorious citizen was used against another Arras native, Maximilien Robespierre. The polarizing figure of the French Revolution was described frequently by his enemies as the nephew of Damiens. Though untrue, the libel held considerable credibility among royalists and foreign sympathizers.
During the Roman period, their centre was transferred from the hill-fort of Etrun to Nemetocennae (present-day Arras), on an important road junction. The name Nemetocennae possibly meant in Gaulish 'from the sacred wood, from the sanctuary'. It is later attested as Metacon by Ptolemy (ca. 170 AD), and as Nemetacum (ca.
The Paris-Lyon-Marseille line was built between 1848 and 1853. In 1879 two train stations were built: Vion and Sarras. It was not until 1897 that Arras station opened together with a line between Sécheras and Ozon. Today there is the Café de la halt on the location of the old station.
Arras sailed to the east coast where for the 1918 shipping season, all the Battle-class trawlers were assigned to patrol and escort duties based out of Sydney, Nova Scotia.Johnston et al., pp. 543, 645 The vessel performed these duties until the end of the war and remained in RCN service until 1919.
On 23 July the battalion was attached to 4th Division in the Arras sector, and formally transferred to its 10th Bde on 2 August. The battalion carried out a few fighting patrols during the summer monthsBecke Pt 3a, p. 5.Becke, Pt 1, pp. 57–63.Wyrall, Vol II, pp 132–3.
The snow caused hundreds of drivers to be stranded on the A1079 during the late morning at Arras Hill in the East Riding of Yorkshire. There was a marked temperature difference on the 30th, with Redesdale, Northumberland, only reaching 0.4 °C as a maximum, whilst some places reached 12 °C in Southwest England.
On 9 April the Fourth Army began a bombardment of the Hindenburg Line, with such heavy artillery that was in range, as the Third and First armies began the offensive at Arras to the north. Fighting on the Fourth Army front, for the remaining outpost villages, went on until the end of April.
Thomas Herier, Erier, Erriers, or Erars (fl. 1240-1270) was a Picard trouvère associated with the "Arras school". Herier is not mentioned in contemporary documents and all that is known about him is derived from his works. He composed a jeu parti with Gillebert de Berneville and possibly another with Guillaume le Vinier.
Planks for shelves and tables were boated up the Thames to Brentford.John Payne Collier, The Egerton Papers (Camden Society: London, 1840), pp. 345-6. 18,000 bricks were bought to build ovens for the event, and extra lodgings were added to the house. Arras hooks for tapestries were supplied by Page of Uxbridge.
Wignacourt was born in Arras in 1560, a nephew of the renowned jurist François Baudouin. In the late 1570s he studied at the University of Leuven under Justus Lipsius, to whom he wrote a letter (now in Leiden University Library) on 9 November 1586.Iusti Lipsi epistolae. Pars II: 1584-1587, ed.
On the same day II./StG 77 attacked road traffic near Montreuil and Saint-Omer on 21 and 22 May. One more was lost in support operations on 25 May. I./StG 77 followed up the victory at Arras, by attacking troop concentrations north of the town.de Zeng, stankey, Creek 2009, pp.
In 2017 and 2018, the club was associated with the commemorations of the Battles of the Somme and Arras, including the Eric Milroy commemorative tournament. These Franco-Scottish events gave birth in February 2018 to the creation of the Auld Alliance Trophy, played every year as part of the six nations tournament.
When the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) began to come up to strength in November 1939, the regiment was based in Arras, France where it was placed under command of the 1st Anti-Aircraft Brigade which was headquartered there. Although the regiment was based in Arras, 162 LAA Bty was detached to 3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade in Le Havre, which was a strategically important supply port for the BEF. To make matters worse, by this time the only AA guns the regiment had were now stuck in Le Havre, while the rest of the regiment only manned 12 machine-guns in each battery. Shortly thereafter, III Corps had formed up in France, and the regiment was reassigned to Commander Corps RA, III Corps.
The 2002 Dakar Rally, also known as the 2002 Arras–Madrid–Dakar Rally was the 24th running of the Dakar Rally event. The format of the rally was revised for 2002 with the introduction of two-day stages and two stages without the use of navigation aids. The race started in Arras in northern France on 28 December 2001 and finished at Dakar in Senegal on 13 January 2002. The 1999 and 2000 winner, Jean-Louis Schlesser, switched from a petrol powered vehicle to a diesel powered one in a bid to make the vehicle lighter However, he was forced to retire from the rally during the sixth stage from Er-Rachidia to Ouarzazate in Morocco while lying 11th overall when his vehicle caught fire.
After a winter spent trench-holding, 50th Division was moved to the Arras sector for the forthcoming Arras offensive. On 25 March 1917 the divisional artillery was temporarily transferred to VII Corps and CCLI Bde moved up on 31 March to positions between Beaurains and Agny under the command of 56th (1/1st London) Division. 1 April was spent getting ammunition up to the guns and in registering targets, then from 2 April until Z Day for the First Battle of the Scarpe (9 April) the guns were engaged in the general bombardment, wire- cutting and gas shelling. The attack went in behind a barrage that was described as a 'tornado of shell fire' and was generally successful.Wyrall, pp. 205–7.
After Robert de Melun, governor of Artois, killed Philippe de Mansfeld in a quarrel, Moulart mediated a reconciliation between Melun and Mansfeld's family. As a member of the First Estate in the States of Hainaut, he took part in the Estates General of 1576 and the negotiation of the Pacification of Ghent. On 12 October 1576 the cathedral chapter of Arras elected him bishop of Arras in succession to François Richardot, and his appointment was confirmed by the consistory of 4 May 1577. Reluctant to leave his monastery, he was not enthroned as bishop until 1 October 1577, and was not able to reside in his see until 1578, due to the opposition of the supporters of William the Silent.
Scene Shifter at Camiers, France, 1918 The guns arrived with their carriages in France on 26 May 1918, but incomplete, and were not in action until 8 August. The two guns were operated by 471 Siege Battery from May 1918, and were known as "HM Gun Boche Buster", operating near Arras with First Army, and "HM Gun Scene Shifter", operating near Bethune with Fifth Army. They were used for long-range interdiction fire on key German targets such as railway junctions. King George V personally oversaw the firing of the first shell by Boche Buster from near Marœuil, 6 km NW of Arras, on 8 August in a fireplan to hit German reinforcements being sent south to oppose the British Amiens offensive.
Similar tribunaux révolutionnaires were also in operation in the various French departments. However, on 16 April 1794 (27 Germinal Year II) the Convention approved a report by St. Just proposing the abolition of the existing revolutionary tribunals in individual départements and requiring all suspects to be sent to the main tribunal in Paris. On 21 May 1794 the government decided that the Terror would be centralised, with almost all the tribunals in the provinces closed and all the trials held in Paris.Ian Davidson – The French Revolution – From Enlightenment to Tyranny – Profile Books Ltd – London, 2016 The provincial tribunals which were allowed to continue their work were Bordeaux, Arras, Nîmes in the South, as well as Arras and Cambrai in the North.
British aircraft began to move north from the Arras front, the total rising to about aircraft in the II Brigade RFC (Second Army) area. The mass of artillery to be used in the attack was supported by many artillery-observation and photographic reconnaissance aircraft, in the corps squadrons which had been increased from twelve to eighteen aircraft each. Strict enforcement of wireless procedure allowed a reduction of the minimum distance between observation aircraft from at Arras in April to at Messines, without mutual wireless interference. Wire-cutting bombardments began on 21 May and two days were added to the bombardment for more counter-battery fire. The main bombardment began on 31 May, with only one day of poor weather before the attack.
German air operations over the winter concentrated on reconnaissance to look for signs of Anglo-French offensive preparations, which were found at Messines, Arras, Roye, the Aisne and the Champagne region. By March the outline of the Anglo-French spring offensive had been observed from the air. German air units were concentrated around Arras and the Aisne, which left few to operate over the Noyon Salient during the retirement. When the retirement began British squadrons in the area were instructed to keep German rearguards under constant observation, harass German troops by ground attacks and to make long-range reconnaissance to search the area east of the Hindenburg Line, for signs of more defensive positions and indications that a further retreat was contemplated.
During the Battle of Arras the British Fifth Army was intended to help the operations of the Third Army, by pushing back German rear guards to the (Hindenburg Line) and then attacking the position from Bullecourt to Quéant, which was from the main Arras–Cambrai road. The German outpost villages from Doignies to Croisilles were captured on 2 April and an attack on a front, with Bullecourt in the centre was planned. The wire-cutting bombardment was delayed by transport difficulties behind the new British front line and the attack of the Third Army, which was originally intended to be simultaneous, took place on 9 April. A tank attack by the Fifth Army was improvised for 10 April on a front of to capture Riencourt and Hendecourt.
British-dug fighting tunnel in Vimy sector 185th Tunnelling Company next moved to the "Labyrinth" sector near Vimy in March 1916. The German "Labyrinth" stronghold was located near Neuville-Saint-Vaast, between Arras and Vimy and not far from Notre Dame de Lorette. 185th Tunnelling Company seems to have shared this sector with the 176th Tunnelling Company, which had moved to Neuville-Saint-Vaast in April 1916 and remained there for a considerable time, and the 172nd Tunnelling Company, which was relieved in this area by the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company in May 1916. The front sectors at Vimy and Arras, where extremely heavy fighting between the French and the Germans had taken place during 1915, had been taken over by the British in March 1916.
None of the divisions in Gruppe Arras were considered battle worthy, after their time in Flanders. As soon as the British offensive began on 20 November, reserves were rushed to the area and an average of per day arrived at Cambrai stations. The delivery of reinforcements and ammunition was not sufficient for an early counter-attack and 30 November was set for the counter-offensive, after several delays requested by the 2nd Army staff. A more ambitious counter-offensive than originally envisaged, discussed at the meeting on 27 November by Ludendorff, Rupprecht and Marwitz with their staffs, required Gruppe Arras to participate despite the tiredness of its divisions, which had been made worse by the delay in preparing the counter-offensive.
In November, Gruppe Arras had been transferred from the 6th Army further north, holding the area from Inchy to the Arras–Cambrai road near Guémappe. Gruppe Caudry held the area south of Guémappe to Bellicourt, beyond which was Gruppe St. Quentin. Confident in the strength of the (Hindenburg line) and that a big attack would be preceded by a long bombardment, giving the Germans time to move forces to the area, "Absolutely everything which could be stripped out of the Cambrai front was taken to Flanders", (Adjutant, 108 Brigade, 9th Reserve Division) to reinforce the (point of main effort) in Flanders. The unconventional British attack on 20 November obtained strategic, operational and a measure of tactical surprise, inflicting heavy losses and taking ground quickly.
In the Middle Ages, Alf belonged to the lordship whose seat was at the nearby Castle Arras, and which was in turn an Electoral-Trier fief. According to legend, a charcoal maker named Arras was enfeoffed with the holding by the Archbishop of Trier as thanks for his, and his twelve brave sons’, deed of having beaten back a great horde of Hungarians in the Alfbach valley. What is known to history, though, is that Count Palatine Herrmann, on the spot that had quite possibly been fortified as far back as Celtic times, had the castle built in 938 as a defensive facility against Hungarian incursions. In the many centuries that followed, the castle fell into disrepair, but it was rebuilt between 1907 and 1910.
Training was based on the experience of the defensive battles of 1916 and the new principles of fortification, to provide the infrastructure for the new system of defensive battle by and (counter-attack divisions). The new defensive principles and fortifications were used in 1917 to resist the Franco-British offensives. After failures at Verdun in December 1916 and at Arras in April 1917, the system of fortifications defended by supported by divisions counter-attacking from the rear was vindicated during the French attacks of the Nivelle Offensive. The continuation of British attacks at Arras in the wake of the French debacle on the Aisne, led to the highest rate of casualties per day of the war but the system failed again at the Battle of Messines.
Captured German pillbox or 'Mebu' at Passchendaele After a period of further training, labouring and trench holding near Arras and then at Havrincourt the 58th Division moved to the Ypres Salient in late August 1917. 173rd Brigade took over the division's frontage on 11/12 September.Grey, pp. 219–21, 235–8.Grimwade, pp. 289–93.
Pierre Richardot (c.1575–1628) was the 61st abbot of St Willibrord's Abbey, Echternach. He was the son of Jean Richardot, president of the Brussels Privy Council, and Anne Courcol de Baillencourt. Born in Arras, he studied Theology at the University of Leuven and entered the Abbey of St. Vaast in his native city.
They met together frequently until the beginning of World War I. In 1905, Demont was elected a member of "Rosati", a goguette located in Arras. The following year, he was named a Knight in the Legion of Honour.Documentation @ the Base Léonore. The year before his death, he published a book of memoirs called Souvenances.
Rose enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force in Sydney on 15 May 1916 soon after his 18th birthday. By September he was promoted to sergeant. He embarked at Sydney on 30 September with the 117th Howitzer Battery on the HMAT Aeneas. He served in France and was wounded in the Second Battle of Arras.
A successful defence of the Fampoux area on the Anzain-Arras Road was made beside the Scarpe River, between 27 April and 4 May 1918. Drocourt-Quéant: The D-Q Line, as it was commonly known, was but a part of the famous Hindenburg Line, a large series of German fortifications and defensive positions.
In France he worked on La Vindiania, a thesis on the origin of the Indo-European languages and on a complete philosophy of life, which he named biosophy (in Esperanto - Biozofio). However, his works remained in the manuscript form and circulated among his friends, and only one book was actually published in 1946 in Arras.
The Jardin botanique Floralpina is a private botanical garden specializing in alpine plants. It is located at 59, Avenue du Mémorial des Fusillés, Arras, Pas de Calais, Nord-Pas de Calais, France. It is open on the last Sunday in May and by appointment. The garden was established in 1953 by Jean-Michel Spas.
Rain falls throughout the year. Average annual precipitation is with light rainfall evenly distributed throughout the year. The highest recorded temperature was , and the lowest was . On 28 October 2013, Cyclone Christian (also known as the St. Jude storm), one of the strongest extra-tropical cyclones ever recorded, hit Northern Europe including the Arras area.
The Hampshire Yeomanry has been awarded the following battle honours: ;Second Boer War South Africa 1900–01 ;First World War Messines 1917, Somme 1918, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Arras 1918, Ypres 1918, Courtrai, France and Flanders 1916–17 '18, Italy 1917–18 ;Second World War Battle honours are not awarded to the Royal Artillery.
Many of its abbots became well known. Andrew, the fourth, died as Bishop of Arras. Guy of Vaux- de-Cernay, the sixth, was delegated by the General Chapter to accompany the Fourth Crusade in 1203. Three years later he was one of the principal figures in the Albigensian Crusade, which fought against the Cathars.
They anticipated, correctly, that the English planned to make their main effort in northern France. Thus they directed what resources they had to there, planning to assemble their main army at Arras on 22 July. South western France was encouraged to rely on its own resources. Edward III's main army sailed on 29 June 1345.
Vendeville was possibly born in Lille, the son of Guillaume Vendeville and Marie Des Barbieux.Alexis Possoz, Mgr Jean Vendeville, évêque de Tournai 1587-1592 (Lille: Lefort, 1862). Available on Google Books. He went to school in Menin, and from the age of fifteen in Paris, where he studied law, beginning a legal practice in Arras.
This quickly caused English intervention in 1424 when Jacqueline's uncle and enemy made the Duke of Burgundy his heir. The outcome was Gloucester's disastrous campaign to Hainault. Bedford came to shore up the alliance on which his power depended. Channel naval protection was not a concern, even after Burgundy switched its support at Arras.
Sarton lies on the banks of the river Authie, some southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D1E and D938 roads. The average altitude of Sarton is 74 meters. With a surface area of 6.6 km2, it is the 549th largest commune in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, out of 1,549 communes in total.
By 1121 Pedro's second son, Fernando, was already a count, because of his influence at the court of Theresa, Countess of Portugal. On 25 July 1122, Pedro's eldest son, Vermudo, made over the bridewealth to his wife Urraca Enríquez, daughter of Theresa of Portugal.The carta de arras is edited in Barton (1997), 308–10.
The N39, from Arras to Montreuil, used to be the main thoroughfare of the town. In the 1950s, a circular route was created to help traffic flow. A second bypass was built in the 1980s, taking all through traffic well away from the town centre. The Canche river flows through the centre of Hesdin.
This portrait has a grandiose appearance that should not escape the notice of connoisseurs.’Guillaume Apollinaire, Le Salon d'Automne, L'Intransigeant, Numéro 11409, 10 October 1911, p. 2. Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France Nayral was killed in action in December 1914, at the age of thirty-five, in an attack on a German trench near Arras.
1, p. 607. the western part of which constitutes the former Boulonnais. Artois roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Arras, Béthune, Saint Omer, and Lens, and the eastern part of the arrondissement of Montreuil. It occupies the western end of the coalfield which stretches eastward through the neighbouring Nord département and across central Belgium.
It flows through the towns of Arras, Douai and Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. The river ends at Mortagne-du-Nord where it flows into the Scheldt. Scarpe Mountain in Alberta, Canada, was named after the river. The navigable waterway and its coal barges also feature in the novels by 19th century author Émile Zola.
They anticipated, correctly, that the English planned to make their main effort in northern France. Thus they directed what resources they had to there, planning to assemble their main army at Arras on 22 July. South western France was encouraged to rely on its own resources. Edward III's main army sailed on 29 June.
Beatrice Lillie sang a parody about being a successful singer in "Rug of Persia" while "weaving an oriental arras." The song ends with a reference to the popular Cole Porter song "My Heart Belongs to Daddy". Playing an actress who becomes progressively more drunk, Lillie sang "I Went to a Marvellous Party".Citron, Stephen.
Thus they directed what resources they had there, planning to assemble their main army at Arras on 22July. South- western France was encouraged to rely on its own resources, but as the Truce of Malestroit, signed in early 1343, was still in effect, the local lords were reluctant to spend money, and little was done.
It was then controlled by the County of Flanders, as were the regional cities (the Roman cities Boulogne, Arras, Cambrai as well as the Carolingian cities Valenciennes, Saint-Omer, Ghent and Bruges). The County of Flanders thus extended to the left bank of the Scheldt, one of the richest and most prosperous regions of Europe.
The cemetery was established by the French Government in 1919 as a collective facility for German Empire war dead whose battlefield graves and graveyards lay scattered directly to the north, east and south of the Arras region.World War I Battlefields It is now administered by the German War Graves Commission - Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (V.D.K.).
According to Venetian document discovered by Karl Hopf his title was Lord of Cerüja castle (). Pal held a small area of Sinja (in Arras) and Lower Gardi (Unknown location). His son, John (Gjon) Kastrioti († 1437), became the lord of Matia (Mat). He managed to expand his territory but was ultimately subdued by the invading Ottomans.
Seely married Emily Florence, daughter of Colonel Sir Henry George Louis Crichton, on 9 July 1895. They had three sons and four daughters. She died in August 1913. His eldest son and heir, 2Lt Frank Reginald Seely, was killed in action with the Royal Hampshire Regiment at the Battle of Arras on 13 April 1917.
Bullecourt lies on the Upper Cretaceous plain of Artois between Arras and Bapaume and east of the A1 motorway. This satellite photograph shows Bullecourt just north of centre. Quéant is the larger of the two villages near the eastern edge. The A1 and the high-speed (TGV) railway line run up the western edge.
Jackson served in the Officer Training Corps during the First World War and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment on 22 January 1916, a year-and-a-half since the beginning of the war. He was killed in France on 3 May 1917 and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Very little is known about the life of this artist. On stylistic grounds it is assumed that he trained as an engraver in Antwerp. He was therefore possibly a native of Antwerp. Martin Baes worked for the publishers in Saint-Omer in 1614, Tournai in 1617, Arras in 1623 and Douai in 1618-1623.
John died in 1435 during the Congress of Arras at his Castle of Joyeux Repos in Rouen, and was buried at Rouen Cathedral near Henry the Young King, but his grave was destroyed by the Calvinists in 1562. Today a plaque marks the former location of his grave. He had no legitimate surviving issue.
On 11 December 1916, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He scored his eighth victory five days later, downing an enemy fighter northeast of Arras, and continuing his assault on a second despite a broken machine gun extractor. Four days later, he led his final patrol before ten days' leave. He did not return.
The "Arras works" were probably patterned bedcovers rather than tapestries. At the West Port the king was met by 32 burgesses of Edinburgh, whose names are recorded,Documents relative to the reception at Edinburgh of the Kings and Queens of Scotland: 1561–1650 (Edinburgh, 1822), p. 20. who carried a canopy made of purple velvet.
Matthieu "Mendès" Bernard Houbé (born 7 March 1982 in Arras, Hauts-de- FrancePublicMusique: Biographie Matthieu Mendès MusicStory: Biographie Matthieu Mendès ) is a French singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist. He has worked with a number of well-known artists including M. Pokora, Ycare, Luce and others and composed soundtracks for a number of films.
In the Battle of Lens, he was wounded on 20 August 1648 and transported to Arras, where he refused all medical care. A few days later he died of his wounds. The Bastion Beck of the Luxembourg fortress is named after him. It was built in 1644, where the Place de la Constitution is today.
Maral Artin (; born 9 June 2000) is a German-born Armenian footballer who plays as a forward for French Division 2 Féminine club Arras FCF - which was the women's team of RC Lens - and the Armenia women's national team. During her youth career she became B-Juniorinnen Bundesliga champion in Germany with FC Bayern München.
1, p. 607. the western part of which constitutes the former Boulonnais. Artois roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Arras, Béthune, Saint Omer, and Lens, and the eastern part of the arrondissement of Montreuil. It occupies the western end of the coalfield which stretches eastward through the neighbouring Nord département and across central Belgium.
At the beginning of September 1916, the division was again sent to the Eastern Front, returning in November. In 1917 it participated in the Battle of Arras and the Battle of Passchendaele. It then fought against the Allied tank attack in November 1917 in the Battle of Cambrai. In 1918, it fought in the German Spring Offensive.
A number of less-common cheeses are made in northern France using very similar methods and are often listed in the "Maroilles family". These include Baguette Laonnaise (made in Laon), Boulette d'Avesnes (Avesnes-sur- Helpe), Boulette de Cambrai (Cambrai), Cœur d'Arras (Arras), Cœur d'Avesnes (Avesnes), Dauphin (Nord), Gris de Lille (Pas-de-Calais), Guerbigny (Picardy), and Rollot (Somme).
He accompanied Philip the Good to Nevers then to Paris to attend the peace talks which culminated in the Treaty of Arras. After a long and complex struggle with Jean d'Harcourt, Jean Chevrot became bishop of Tournai on 5 November 1436 and was installed in his cathedral on 12 January 1440, accompanied by Isabella and several gentlemen.
The Benedictine abbey was established in the former Ottonian palace building, directed by a monk from the Saint Vedastus abbey in Arras. It was under the direct control of the Pope and through all its history it maintained a close relation with the counts of Flanders. 3D reconstruction of Ename in 1065 based on archaeological finds.
Quend’s church is dedicated to Saint Vaast, bishop of Arras in the 6th century. The steeple, which can be seen from miles around, was used as a triangulation point when creating the map of France. On 15 March 1905, lightning struck the steeple. Quend-Plage-Les-Pins was razed during the Allied invasion of France in 1944.
Later she played for Panathinaikos Athens. Her stats read 17.3 points, 7.6 boards, 2.2 steals and 1.5 assists per game. Eurobasket.com named her All-Greek League Bosman Player of the Year. Gabriela Mărginean joined Arras Pays d'Artois in the summer of 2010. She appeared 26 times in Ligue Féminine de Basketball averaging 12.3 points and 3.6 rebounds.
The Dury Memorial site is a small square park located on the north side of the D939 Route Nationale, south of Dury, between the cities of Arras and Cambrai. Tall, stately maple trees line three edges of the park and well kept lawns surround the low circular flagstone terrace that the granite memorial block rests on.
Colgrave, Two Lives, p. 43 Both manuscripts share common features, such as the omission of place-names and personal names (e.g. Plecgils). Colgrave likewise attributed a common parent manuscript to Trier, Public Library 1151 and Paris Bibliothèque Nationale Fonds Latin 5289, as he did to Arras 812 (1029) and the two St Omer manuscripts.Colgrave, Two Lives, pp.
Storm of Steel begins with Jünger as a private entering the line with the 73rd Hanoverian Regiment in Champagne. His first taste of combat came at Les Éparges in April 1915 where he was first wounded. After recuperating, he took an officer's course and achieved the rank of Leutnant. He rejoined his regiment on the Arras sector.
His first award of the Military Cross was gazetted on 27 October, and his second on 26 November. He was killed in action by Walter von Bülow-Bothkamp on 2 December 1917. Having no known grave he is commemorated at the Arras Flying Services Memorial, and also at the Private Banks Cricket and Athletic Club, Catford.
Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter III.Ellis, France & Flanders, Chapter IV.Anon, Lewisham Gunners, p. 34. Next day, Frankforce attacked the German Panzers moving west past Arras. Two columns were formed, each with a tank battalion, a battalion of the Durham Light Infantry from 50th (N) Division, and artillery from 5th Division; 206 A/T Bty accompanied the Left Column.
Arthur Cyril Bateman (30 October 1890 – 28 March 1918) was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played two first-class matches for Ireland, one in 1913, the other in 1914. Both were against Scotland. Whilst fighting in the First World War, he was declared missing, presumed dead on 28 March 1918 near the town of Arras, France.
On three-quarters of the 50-mile front attacked, British troops fought hard and the Germans failed to reach their first day objectives.Sheffield 2011, p. 269. However, lacking reserves Gough had to retreat behind the Crozat Canal. 22 March saw Fifth Army retreat to the Somme; Haig still anticipated further German attacks in Champagne or Arras.
He later saw action at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the Battle of Arras in April 1917 and the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917. He also fought in the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919. He was appointed an Instructor at Staff College, Quetta in 1928.Burgh, Sir Eric, General (1881–1973) (Indian Army), Generals.dk.
It saw action at the Battle of Aisne in September 1914, the Battle of Ypres in November 1914, the Battle of Loos in October 1915, the Battle of the Somme in Summer 1916, the Battle of Arras in April 1917, the Battle of Cambrai in December 1917 and the advance to the Hindenburg Line in September 1918.

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