Quiestède

Quiestède is a common French, located in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Geography

The seigniory of Quiestède was bought in the years 1770 by Louis-Dominique-Eustace de Lencquesaing (1734-1802), lord of Laprée, shortly after his marriage with a Aronio young lady.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Historic buildings

Castle of Laprée Frontages and roofs of the castle; frontages and roofs of the house dated 1676. (cad. B 44): inscription by decree of September 9th, 1986

Information resulting from: Databases Ministry for the culture

Personalities related to the commune

General Herve de Lencquesaing (1920-1990)

Military cadet, second lieutenant (1942), escapes by Spain, joined Morocco, is integrated into 2nd dB general Leclerc. Unloading, battles of Normandy, first wound, release of Strasbourg, last cavalcade of the tanks of lieutenant de Lencquesaing until Berchtesgaden. Volunteer for Indo-China and the defense of the French Empire: it is then Saigon, Cochinchine, Hanoi where it is again wounded. Then, a career of the honors very traced towards stars with two required passages by Algeria and its dramatic end, the command of a regiment, then an enviable post of instructor at the School of American war.

Bibliography: General Herve de Lencquesaing, one time the discrete heroism , foreword of the general Alain de Boissieu, Paris, the Cat-likeone, 2002,365 pages.

Internet site of the family of Lencquesaing

See too

Common of the Pas-de-Calais

External bonds

Club of Table tennis of Quiestède

Quiestède on the site of the national geographical Institute
Quiestède on the site of INSEE
Quiestède on the site of Quid
Localization of Quiestède on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Quiestède on Mapquest

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