Douglas Engelbart

Abbeville is a common French, located in the department of the Somme and the area Picardy. Place chief of district of the Sum, on the Sum.
The inhabitants of Abbeville are called the Abbevillois .

Etymology; old forms of the name

The name was very changing: Brittania (at the 3rd century), Abacivo villa (at the 6th century), Bacivum palatium, Cloie and Cloye (at the 7th century), Abacivum villa, Basiu, Haymonis villa, Abbatis villa, Abbevilla (at the 11th century), Abbavilla, Abedvilla, Abatis villa, Abbasvilla, Abbisvilla, Abbevile in 1209, Abbevilla in ponticio in 1213, Abisvil, Abeville in 1255, Abbeville in 1266, Abbisville, Abbeville in Pontiu (13th century), Albeville, Aubeville in 1358, Albeville in 1347, Aubbeville, Aubeville, Abevile (1383), Abbativilla, and finally Abbeville , means the city of the abbot who depended formerly on the Abbaye of Saint-Riquier.
One finds also Hableville in 1607 and Ableville in 1643 of hable or harbor of sea.

Communes bordering

Abbeville is limited by 8 communes:
In north: Buigny-Saint-Maclou and Drucat; in the North-East: Caours; in the east: Vauchelles-les-Quesnoy; in south-east: Épagne-Épagnette; in the south: Mareuil-Caubert; in the west: Cambron; in the North-West: Large-Laviers.

Geography

Abbeville , located on the Somme at 45 kilometers downstream from Amiens, is also with 10 kilometers as the crow flies of the Baie of Somme and the Manche.
Just halfway between Rouen and Lille, it is the historical capital of the Comté of Ponthieu and the maritime Picardy.

Districts, hamlets and localities

  • the municipal park of Bouvaque, located at the north of the city, is skirted by the boulevard of the Republic.
  • the park of Emonville in the medium of which the files of the public library are drawn up, in the south of the boulevard of the Republic.
  • Rouvroy, in the West
under the dependence of the abbots of Saint-Riquier. Thereafter, the stranding of the Baie of Somme pushed back sea (12 km), but the city continued to be a commercial port.
  • With the fast development of the trade of salt (since Street), of the Guède ( waide into Picardy) and of the industry of the wool cloth, the middle-class men increase of number and in political importance: they ask a Charte granted in 1184. To commemorate the event, they build a Beffroi in 1126. One century later, Jeanne de Dammartin, countess of Ponthieu (1220 † 1278), makes it possible to the monks to convert an additional part of the forests into arable lands, allowing the development of the local economy.
  • Touched closely by the English forwarding of 1346, Abbeville resists the enemy armies, but it is yielded, with the Comté of Ponthieu of which it is the capital, to the crown of England by the Traité of Brétigny (1360). Like the other Picardy cities, it passes then under Burgundian domination in 1404. During these decades, the area is devastated by the plunderings, the epidemics and the wolves. Louis XI repurchases Abbeville with the duke of Burgundy in 1463, but his/her son Charles Bold the reconsiders this transfer by taking the head of the Ligue of the Public property. Louis XI fails in front of Abbeville in 1471, but recovers all the Picardy with died of the duke of Burgundy in 1477.
  • In 1514, Louis XII wife in Abbeville the girl of Henri VII of England, but the English finally line up (1523) at the sides of Charles Quint in the wars of François I {{er}}. The most serious blow carried with Abbeville is the series of English raids carried out by the duke of Suffolk on the coasts of the estuary in 1544, after the fall of Boulogne-sur-Mer and Montreuil-sur-Mer.
  • About the middle of the 16th century, the trade of the waide moves back in front of the promotion of the Pastel of the countries of midday, and the craft industry should be restructured. Colbert gets busy there, and under Louis XIV, the city develops thanks to the installation of Van Robais, manufacturers of cloths and tapestries come from the Netherlands, which create in 1665 the royal Manufacture of the Oars (workshops of drapery).
  • In July 1766, the Knight of the Bar, shown to have, one year earlier, missed with the respect due to a religious procession while refusing to take off its hat, was carried out there on the place of the Large-Market. Its decapitated body was delivered to the flames on this same place. Today, a paving stone (engraved of its name and date of its execution) are always visible on this place, named now place max-Lejeune, in front of the town hall. The torment of the knight of the Bar was used with Voltaire as banner in his combat against religious fanaticism.
  • Victor Hugo was three times of passage to Abbeville, as a tourist:
- in 1835, it remained there successively starting from July 26th (after being gone down with " the Ecu of the Brabant "), then August 4th and 5th (while being lodged with " the Hotel of England ")
- in August and September 1837, arrived of Amiens after having descended the Sum in steamer
- in 1849, leaving the city under the rain on September 11th.
  • 1849 : As in all the communes of France, the major population masculine could, for the first time, outward journey to vote thanks to the introduction of the Vote for all.
  • At the time of the First World War, the city will never be occupied by the German troops (As the monument built on the mount of Caubert attests it). At the time of the battles of the Sum, it will accommodate a military hospital (the 3rd Australian General Hospital ). The writer Andre Maurois, in Silences of the colonel Bramble pleasantly describes intact spirit trading of the inhabitants in the last months of the war. Like Amiens and Beauvais, the commune is partially destroyed and the after-effects of war are numerous with the surroundings, in particular because of the not exploded ammunition which still disturb agriculture, the building sites or the industry of sugar beet. In 1918, it was the seat of two Franco-British conferences ( conferences of Abbeville ): that of the March 25th, between the marshal Haig and the generals Wilson and Foch, prepared the conference of Doullens. During the second the May 2nd, Foch claimed the authority on the Italian face but obtained only one to be able of coordination. It is with the conference of Abbeville (May 1st, th and 2nd 1918) whereas the armies weaken that Foch vis-a-vis Clemenceau and Lloyd George would have considered a fold towards the south to protect the capital, if it occurred that the French Armies and English are separated and that they cannot defend any more at the same time the access to the ports of the English Channel and Paris, the English army in front of then being folded up and resisting on the Sum. What could be avoided thanks to the American assistance.
  • the May 3rd 1936, the voters of the 1re district of Abbeville did not derogate from the broad popular movement. With the 2e turn, they chose for deputy max Lejeune who, at 27 years, was then the youngest elected official of the Room.
  • At the time of the Second world war, the city was again mainly destroyed by the German and English Bombardement S, which made disappear forever the old houses with sides from wood and corbellings. Abbeville was released in September 1944 by the Canadian army, which entered by the suburb of Rouvroy.
  • In 2001, the city, like all the valley of the Sum, had to suffer from the Inondation S. the station was inaccessible, the railways being covered by several centimetres with water.

Tourist monuments and places

The picturesque side of the downtown area, with the streets bordered of old houses radiating towards Saint-Vulfran, is nothing any more but one phantom since the Second world war. Were however preserved (after “some” restorations):

  • the collegial Saint-Vulfran, built in 1488, blazing masterpiece of Gothic art which makes the fame of the city.
Its saint-owner (celebrated on March 20th) is holy Wulfran de Fontenelle, born towards 650, in Milly (Gâtinais), lord at the court of Clotaire III, abbot of Fontenelle, archbishop of Direction in 682, evangelist of the Frise. He died in 720 with Saint-Wandrille.

  • the Belfry, one of oldest of France, built in 1209. May 20th, 1940, during a bombardment, its roof was damaged and it is not that in 1986 qu ' it was remade. The belfry obtained in 2005 its inscription on the list of the world heritage of UNESCO (see Beffrois of Belgium and France), and accommodates the museum of the city today.

  • the castle of Trifle, built in 1752 by A. Van Wrapped.

  • the church the Holy Sepulchre, having stained glasses carried out by Alfred Manessier.

  • the park of Emonville and the public library

  • War memorial the of the War of 1870, due to Alsatian, Xavier Niessen, founder of the To remember French .

  • Museum To stop of Perthes.

Famous characters

In its homage, the museum and public lycée bear its name.

Economy

Abbeville is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Abbeville - Picardy maritime. It manages ports, the aerodrome and industrial parks of the district of Abbeville.

Twinnings

  • , to see

Sport

  • Football, team evolving/moving in Championship of France Amateurs 2.
  • Club of Handball of which team 1 female cheek in Main road 1.
  • Field hockey, female team evolving/moving in Main road 1.
  • Club of Table tennis, currently in Main road 1.
  • Flying school, planes, sailplanes and U.L.M., located at the limit of Abbeville and Buigny-Saint-Maclou.

Random links:Slice of bread Smart alec | Tortefontaine | Masaharu Segawa | Camillo Will pass | Championship of Ireland of football 1994