The release of French Flanders
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Research from the departmental archives have enabled us to gather some information on the release of Flanders and the French, the period from 1797 to the interwar period.
It still lacks a synthesis and study of cultural and political role of the press.
Pending the preparation of this synthesis, we invite you to read our research.
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The Union Faulconnier (1895-1935)
By Westhoekpedia - Topic: Review - Watched 165 timesThe society was founded in April 1895 by Emile Mancel. It was in response to a committee the year before and under the leadership of Mayor Alfred Dumont, had organized the commemoration of the tercentenary of the Battle of Texel.
She took the name Union Faulconnier in memory of the Grand Bailiff and first historian Pierre Faulconnier Dunkirk.
She published 33 volumes from 1898 to 1934, called Bulletin of the European Faulconnier.
There are nearly 500 articles on the history of the city and port of Dunkirk.
One can distinguish two periods in the history of the company. The first, in 1895 after the Great War, is one of the founders (E. Mancel, H. Lemaitre, E Bouchet, H. Durin, and Abbot Harrauer). The second is that the heirs (L. Lemaire, Ch De Warenghien, A. LESMARIE, and Drs Reumaux Dewèvre, L. Moreel, L. Baron). Dr. Louis Lemaire has been the major contributor and facilitator of the newsletter by writing more than 40% of articles published during this period.
The history of this learned society unfortunately still write.
In the meantime, we deliver the table of articles in the Bulletin from 1898 to 1934.
Table of the Bulletin of the European Faulconnier (pdf file)
Plichon Ignatius (1814-1888)
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The Saint-Simonian
Plichon Ignatius was born in Bailleul in 1814. His father was a soap manufacturer. After schooling at the Jesuit college of St. Acheul, he studied at the Faculty of Law, Paris. It was there that he became passionately interested in the Saint-Simonian ideas, becoming a faithful follower of pantheism enfantinien without lapsing into mysticism. Enfantin father called her "dear penguin" (Ignatius Plichon had indeed lost an arm after a hunting accident.) Bailleul income to the end of his studies, he converted his elder brother who in turn made every effort to spread around to the new religion, the scandal of clergy of Bailleul.
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Bailleul in the Great War (1914-1918)
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On the eve of World War I, Bailleul is a peaceful town of 13,000 inhabitants surrounded by hop fields and grassy meadows. The old landowning families in the region will remain at its center. The cloth industry and lace occupies much of the working population living in unhealthy courées on the outskirts of the city.
Four years later, after the war, the city has been destroyed to 98% and its population reduced to 6,000 souls.
