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Société de Crédit Agricole [9] was created on 23 February 1885 at Salins-les-Bains in the district of Poligny in the Jura region. [8] It was the first of its kind in France. Drawing on this experience to promote lending to small family farms, the Act of 5 November 1894, which had the support of the Minister for Agriculture Jules Méline ...
Crédit du Nord (French pronunciation: [kʁedi dy nɔʁ]) was a French retail banking network. It consisted of the following banks: It consisted of the following banks: Banque Courtois , Toulouse , Aquitaine (oldest existing bank in France, founded in 1760)
Nord-Pas de Calais is the second main region for the automotive industry in France after Île de France (Paris region). The sector trade fair, the Forum on European Automotive Industry in Lille Region (FEAL), [ 54 ] takes place biennially to showcase the industry of the region and its importance for France and Europe.
Nord is part of the current Hauts-de-France region and is surrounded by the French departments of Pas-de-Calais, Somme, and Aisne, as well as by Belgium and the North Sea. Its area is 5,742.8 km 2 (2,217.3 sq mi). [5] It is the longest department in metropolitan France, measuring 184 km from Fort-Philippe in the north-west to Anor in the south ...
Inhabited since prehistoric times, the Pas-de-Calais region was populated in turn by the Celtic Belgae, the Romans, the Germanic Franks and the Alemanni.During the fourth and fifth centuries, the Roman practice of co-opting Germanic tribes to provide military and defence services along the route from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Cologne created a Germanic-Romance linguistic border in the region that ...
Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Nord Martinique (pronounced [kɔmynɔte daɡlɔmeʁasjɔ̃ dy pei nɔʁ maʁtinik]; often as CAP Nord Martinique) is an intercommunal structure in the French overseas department and region of Martinique. It was created in January 2014. Its seat is in Le Marigot. [1] Its area is 547.9 km 2. Its population was ...
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿amɑ̃ lez‿o]; former Dutch: Sint-Amands-aan-de-Skarpe) is a commune in the Nord department, northern France. [3] It lies on the river Scarpe, 12 km northwest of Valenciennes.
For example, faluche, a soft bread from Nord-Pas-de-Calais, is eaten at lunchtime, or as a snack, with butter or brown sugar. Mont des Cats, a mild cheese, can also be eaten first thing in the morning, [59] while Maroilles is less common. [60] Nord-Pas-de-Calais cuisine is based on butter, [61] with oil rarely used except for vinaigrette. [28]