Marquise, Pas-de-Calais
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Marquise (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France[2] about Script error: No such module "convert". northeast of Boulogne. The river Slack flows through the commune.
History
Part of the Flemish-speaking territory until 1346, Marquise became an English county under King Edward III after the battle of Crécy and the hexagonal bell-tower goes back to the English period. In 1420, in the suburbs of Marquise, at Leulinghen, the church of which was divided by the French-English border, King Henry V married Catherine of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France.[3]
Marquise received national media attention in autumn 2006 when the local police retrieved a painting by Maurice Boitel, stolen forty years before and taken out of France.[4]
Population
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Notable people
- Alphonse Pinart, explorer, was born there in 1852.
See also
References
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- ↑ INSEE commune file
- ↑ Henry V by William Shakespeare
- ↑ info.france3.fr/insolite/24771923-fr.php - 100k - 13 déc 2006
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External links
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