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All that remains today of the ancient fortress is the Porte de Bretagne. Few towns have been as involved in the history of France, few towns so often devastated, as Péronne. Burned and pillaged in the time of the Normans; gravely damaged during the time of the Spanish occupation; devastated by the Germans in 1870 ; totally destroyed in 1917 ...
In today's times, the Vermandois county would fall in the Picardy region of northern France. Pepin I of Vermandois , the earliest of its hereditary counts, was descended in direct male line from the emperor Charlemagne .
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The arrondissement of Péronne was created in 1800. [4] At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Somme, it received 28 communes from the arrondissement of Amiens and 26 communes from the arrondissement of Montdidier, and it lost seven communes to the arrondissement of Amiens.
A pastor was arrested over allegations of his lewd, forceful sexual behavior from several workers at his cleaning company — just a day after he preached at his Oklahoma church about forgiveness.
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Bill Byrge, an actor who appeared in many of the “Ernest” comedy films as “Bobby,” died on Thursday at the age of 92 in Nashville, Tenn. Byrge’s cousin, Sharon Chapman, confirmed his ...