Le canton d'Abbeville-Nord est une ancienne division administrative française située dans le département de la Somme et la région Picardie. Depuis le 29 mars 2015, ce canton n'existe plus.
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The La Barre Monument is a secular monument in Abbeville,, France. It lies near the railway station, next to the canal aqueduct over the River Somme.
It was erected in 1907, by public subscription, in commemoration of the ordeal of François-Jean de la Barre, known as the Chevalier de La Barre. In 1766, at Abbeville, La Barre was tried, found guilty, and executed for failing to salute a religious procession. The monument is today an annual gathering point for defenders of secularism and freethinking.
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Abbeville is a commune in the Somme department and in Hauts-de-France region in northern France.
It is the chef-lieu of one of the arrondissements of Somme. Located on the river Somme, it was the capital of Ponthieu.
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The Canton of Abbeville-Nord is a former canton situated in the department of the Somme and in the Picardy region of northern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It had 16,905 inhabitants.
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The Canton of Abbeville-Sud is a former canton situated in the department of the Somme and in the Picardy region of northern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It had 13,960 inhabitants.
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The Battle of Abbeville took place from 27 May to 4 June 1940, near Abbeville during the Battle of France in the Second World War. On 20 May, the 2nd Panzer Division advanced 56 mi to Abbeville on the English Channel, overran the 25th Infantry Brigade of the 50th Infantry Division and captured the town at 8:30 p.m. Only a few British survivors managed to retreat to the south bank of the Somme and at 2:00 a.m. on 21 May, the III Battalion, Rifle Regiment 2 reached the coast, west of Noyelles-sur-Mer.
The 1st Armoured Division arrived in France from 15 May without artillery, short of an armoured regiment and the infantry of the 1st Support Group, that had been diverted to Calais. From 27 May to 4 June, attacks by the Franco-British force south of the Abbeville bridgehead, held by the 2nd Panzer Division, then the 57th Infantry Division, recaptured about half of the area. The Allied forces lost many of their tanks and the Germans much of their infantry, some units running away over the River Somme bridge. On 5 June, the divisions of the German 4th Army attacked out of the bridgeheads south of the Somme and pushed back the French and British, depleted by their counter-attacks, to the Bresle with many casualties.
In 1953, the British official historian, Lionel Ellis, wrote that the Allies lacked battlefield co-ordination, which contributed to the Allied failure to defeat the Germans and magnified the cost of lack of preparation and underestimation of the German defences south of the Somme. In 2001, Peter Caddick-Adams also wrote of the chronic lack of battlefield liaison in and between the British and French divisions, caused by a shortage of radios and led to elementary and costly tactical errors. The lack of communication continued after reinforcement by the 51st Infantry Division and French armoured and infantry divisions. The Germans had committed substantial forces to the bridgeheads, despite the operations in the north, that culminated in the Dunkirk evacuation. The Somme crossings at Abbeville and elsewhere were still available on 5 June, for Fall Rot, the final German offensive, which brought about the defeat of France.
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Source : Dictionnaire du personnel politique de la Somme - édition 2025, sur le site des Archives départementales.
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