Previous Location: Normandie
Google Map (in progress)
See the Pinchon map of Flanders, Artois, and Piccardy.
Chapter CIV – In Dunkirk/Dunkerque in the département of Nord in the region of Flanders/Flandres, insurance and a grateful captain replace all that the brothers have lost.
Videos: Jours de fête à Dunkerque and Escapades en Flandres from Echappées Belles; LE PAYS DES FLANDRES – “1000 Pays en un” – Documentaire complet from
Le Pays préféré des Français.
Chapter CV – The boys and their uncle begin their journey by canal back to Lorraine. They learn about Valenciennes and Douai and stop in Lille.
Videos: Bienvenue dans le Nord & Lille gourmand from Echappées belles. La vieille Bourse de Lille – Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais – Le Monument Préféré des Français from
Le Pays préféré des Français.
Chapter CVI – Julien reads about a great man of Flanders – Philippe de Girard.
Chapter CVII – Julien reads about the siege of Calais, in the département of Pas-de-Calais in the region of Artois.
Videos: La Picardie à bras ouverts & Vélomaritime : d’Etretat à Calais from Echappées belles; L’ARTOIS – “1000 Pays en un” – Documentaire complet from
Le Pays préféré des Français.
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Longfellow’s Poems of Places
Pas-de-Calais in Artois
Azincourt
Agincourt by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Henry the Fifth at Agincourt by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
The Ballad of Agincourt by Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
Agincourt by Thomas Heywood (1497?–1580?)
Arras
The Duke’s Exequy by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908)
Boulogne
Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844)
Calais
Calais by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)
Fish-women by William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
Calais Sands by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
Sommes
Crécy-en-Ponthieu
The Ballad of Crécy by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903)
Nihil sub sole novum 