Fibula (Somme)

See also: Fibula

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

Geography

Péronne is located in the Santerre.

It is served by the highways and, and is on the Main road.

Administration

Demography

Currency

Urbs nescia vinci (city which is unaware of the defeat)

Heraldic

History

Located on a hill, dominating the Somme and its ponds, Péronne was, as of the time mérovingienne, a Fortified town frightening. At the 9th century, ramparts are built. There remains about it today only the “ Porte of Brittany ”, single vestige of the old fortress.

The king Charles Simple the dies there captive, in 929, in a keep. At the 12th century, Philippe-Auguste makes build the turns of the castle. Surrounded by ditches, a harrow defends the entry of it.

  • in 1468, Charles Bold the extorts a treaty from captive Louis XI retained with the castle;

  • in 1536, Charles Quint besieges the city, without success. Catherine of Pitch, known as “Marie Fouré” defends the city, precipitating a Spaniard top of a rampart;
  • on September 14th 1641, Louis XIII and Honore II Grimaldi sign a treaty placing the principality of Monaco under the protectorate of France.

Few cities were as much frays with the French history, few cities were also often devastated. Set fire to, plundered during the invasions Normans, seriously damaged at the time of the seat of the Spaniards, devastated by the Germans in 1870, completely destroyed in 1917, bombarded and set fire to in May 1940 by German aviation, Péronne carries in its blazon two Military Cross and that of the Légion of honor.

Places and monuments

See also: Church Saint-Jean-Baptist of Fibula, Historial of the Great War

  • Church Saint-Jean-Baptist: Destroyed almost completely between 1914 and 1918, then very partially in 1944, its frontage of Gothic style blazing remained upright. It also conceals a mural of the XVIIe century: " good death ". Fibula the catholic had 7 parishes before the Révolution.

  • In front of the church draws up the statue of Marie Fouré, heroin péronnaise which stigmatizes resistance with Péronnais vis-a-vis the troops of Charles Quint at the time of the seat of 1536.

  • the Museum Alfred Danicourt, founded in the hotel-of-city in 1877, is the only museum of the Sum entirely to be plundered and destroyed by the German troops between 1916 and 1918. It lost 98% of its collections. Only some archaeological treasures were saved by the conservative who buried them at the entry of the Germans in the city in 1914. These treasures will be again withdrawn from " the intérêt" German in 1941. Forgotten by the first rebuilding, the museum finds its place in the hotel-of-city only after 1955 and the second rebuilding of the bâtiment.
    Son founder, the former mayor Charles Alfred Danicourt, had made of this museum a cultural headlight for the Sum before 1900. One finds there still today one of the most beautiful collections in the world of Gallic currencies, of ancient goldsmithery, of funerary furniture mérovingien, a panorama of the regional production of flint during Prehistory, or some good examples of the Picardy painting of XIXe - XXe centuries.

  • the town of Fibula is also known for its War memorial the, the " Picardy cursing the guerre" , work of the architect Louis Is necessary, representing a Picardy woman drawing up the fist above the body of his/her son or her husband killed with the war.

  • Monument of the Delpas Sailor, pointing out the defense of the city and its fall at the time of the seat by the Prussians in the winter 1870-1871.

  • Australian Monument, which points out the heroic catch of a district of the city by the Australian soldiers in 1918.

  • the Door of Brittany, with its strengthened network, still presents the defensive aspect of Fibula (French fortified town and frontier town with two steps of the Spanish possessions) until the XXe century.

  • Installed in the old medieval castle of the city, today property of the department, the Historial of the Great War is the place of visit impossible to circumvent for impassioned First World War and the school public. The museum, built in 1992, is the work of the architect Henri Ciriani, who imagined there a sensitive course museographic, illustrating architecturalement the course of the conflict. The building is characterized by the whiteness of its punctuated concrete small cyclindres, symbolizing military tombs. This trilingual museum, centered on the presentation comparative of the countries torn by the conflict, present of the etchings of the German painter Otto Ten.

Personalities related to the commune

Economy and tourism

  • Péronne is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Fibula. It manages the wearing of Fibula and the camp-site.
  • Brood in the middle of the valley of the Sum, between ponds and fields of field crops, the city is known like the paradise of the fishermen and the hunters.

Twinnings

See too

  • Common of the Sum

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