Audruicq
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Audruicq (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.[2]
Geography
A town located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Calais, at the junction of the D224 with the D309 road.
History
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders named it a city in 1175, rebuilding the castle and converting the surrounding marshland to tillable soil. After continuously changing authority between the 13th century and the 17th century, Audruicq finally became a French town after the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678.
Population
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Sights
- The eighteenth-century church of St. Martin.
- The eighteenth-century château.
Personalities
- Gilbert Brazy: Born at Audruicq on 15 February 1902. A pilot, he disappeared, flying a "Latham47" in the Arctic in 1928 with Roald Amundsen.
International relations
Audruicq is twinned with: EnglandScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Hawkhurst in Kent, England, since 1998.
See also
References
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External links
- Audruicq, a stroll in the past
- The German Air Force in the Great War The 1916 bombing of the ammunition dump at Audruicq
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