Corbie

Corbie is a common French, located in the department of the Somme and the area Picardy.

Its inhabitants is called the Corbéens .

Geography

Corbie is a small town (chief town of canton) located at 15 km, the East and upstream of Amiens, in the valley of the Somme, crossed by the Canal of the Sum and served by a station (network FOR THE THIRD TIME Picardy)

Hamlets, districts, localities and variations

  • Neuville (called formerly Neuville-under-Corbie ), located at the West and crossing by the river Anchor, whose junction with the Sum is at short distance, just in the North of Aubigny and upstream of Daours.
  • the district of Etampes was still at the XVIIIe century a hamlet (chart of Cassini).

Administration

Demography

History

  • 657 : Foundation of the Abbey of Corbie by the queen regent Bathilde.
  • 780 : creation of the Caroline, news writing which will become the tiny one of Imprimerie.
  • 1475 : Catch of the city by Louis XI.
  • 1636 : The Spanish take the city on August 7th and are then driven out on November 9th by Richelieu and Louis XIII after a 3 month old seat.

Corbie was active in the spinning mill and the Tissage of the Laine.

Places and monuments

See also: Abbey of Corbie

  • Abbey Saint-Pierre, whose Transept and chorus were demolished in 1815 because of their very bad condition.
  • Hotel-of-city, easily identifiable by its profusion of covered slate turrets.
  • War memorial, ornamented by the statue of a young widow and a child holding a bouquet and looking at a helmet (in a trench or a tomb?).
  • Church of Neuville, remarkable for its carved tympanum.

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