Église du Faubourg de Paris

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L'église du Faubourg de Paris ou église du Faubourg Notre-Dame est une ancienne église située dans le faubourg de Paris à Valenciennes.

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Arrondissement of Valenciennes

The arrondissement of Valenciennes is an arrondissement of France in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region. It has 82 communes. Its population is 350,643, and its area is 634.8 km2.

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Valenciennes

Valenciennes is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt river. Although the city and region experienced a steady population decline between 1975 and 1990, it has since rebounded.

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Battle of Valenciennes

The Battle of Valenciennes was part of the Hundred Days Offensive at the end of World War I. The battle took place during the final phase of the Great War, from 28 October to 2 November 1918 and saw the Canadian Corps re-capture the northern French city of Valenciennes and surrounding areas from the German Army.

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Siege of Valenciennes

The siege of Valenciennes took place between 13 June and 28 July 1793, during the Flanders campaign of the War of the First Coalition. The French garrison under Jean Henri Becays Ferrand was blockaded by part of the army of Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, commanded by the Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Valenciennes fell on 28 July, resulting in an Allied victory.

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Battle of Valenciennes

The Battle of Valenciennes was fought on 16 July 1656 between the Spanish troops commanded by John Joseph of Austria and the French troops under Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, in the outskirts of the city of Valenciennes in the Spanish Netherlands during the Franco-Spanish War. After a period of Spanish recovery following the Peace of Münster in 1648, France went again on the offensive in 1654, having succeeded in suppressing internal rebellions, and took several towns in the province of Hainaut over the course of two years. On early 1656, Turenne was instructed by the French court to continue the offensive. He intended at first to besiege Tournai, but realising that it had been strongly reinforced by the Army of Flanders under the newly appointed John Joseph of Austria, illegitimate son of Philip IV of Spain, he went instead to besiege Valenciennes, in the course of the Scheldt River. The defenders of the city opened locks and breached dikes to flood the surroundings and hamper the siege. Their strong resistance gave time the Spanish army to prepare a relief which took place one month after the beginning of the siege. The early hours of 16 July, the forces led by John Joseph of Austria and the Prince of Condé, the victor of the Battle of Rocroi, now in Spanish service, stormed the French circumvallation lines west of Valenciennes, defended by the forces of Field Marshal Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre. The Spanish were victorious and destroyed Le Ferté's army, whom Turenne was unable to help because of the floods that separated their respective armies. The Battle of Valenciennes was the worst of only a few defeats that Turenne suffered in his long career campaigning, and is regarded as Spain's last great victory of the 17th century, as well as one of France's worst defeats of the century. Coupled with another Spanish victory over the French at Pavia in 1655, that of Valenciennes seriously damaged France's military capabilities and fueled the hopes in the Spanish court for a favourable peace with France after more than twenty years of conflict. Peace talks took place at Madrid during the summer of that year, but ultimately failed to produce any result, and the war continued for three more years, until the Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659.

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Le faubourg Notre-Dame est à l'origine rattaché à la paroisse de Saint-Waast, village situé hors de l'enceinte de Valenciennes à l'ouest de la porte d'Anzin. Après la destruction de celle-ci entrainée par les travaux de modernisation de l'enceinte et la construction de la citadelle, le faubourg Notre-Dame n'a plus d'église. Une église est construite en 1736 dans le faubourg à proximité de la porte Notre-Dame le long de la route. En 1754 un clocher est construit.

L'église est remplacée en 1879 par une nouvelle dédiée à Notre Dame du Sacré-Cœur construite sur la place du faubourg, le bâtiment de l'ancienne église est alors vendu par la ville vers 1880 et transformé en habitation. La toiture du clocher sera par la suite démolie, le bâtiment existe toujours et continue de servir d'habitation.

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Arrondissement of Valenciennes

The arrondissement of Valenciennes is an arrondissement of France in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region. It has 82 communes. Its population is 350,643, and its area is 634.8 km2.

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Valenciennes

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Battle of Valenciennes

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Siege of Valenciennes

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Battle of Valenciennes

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