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Nord (French pronunciation: ⓘ; officially French: département du Nord; Picard: départémint dech Nord; Dutch: Noorderdepartement, lit. ' Northern Department ' ) is a département in Hauts-de-France region , France bordering Belgium .
The Departmental Council of Nord (French: Conseil départemental du Nord, Picard: Consièl départémintal dech Nord) is the deliberative assembly of the French department of the Nord, the most populous French department. The headquarters of this decentralized local authority are in Lille.
The Gare du Nord (pronounced [ɡaʁ dy nɔːʁ]; English: North Station), officially Paris Nord, is one of the seven large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. The station is served by trains that run between the capital and northern France via the Paris–Lille railway , as well as to international destinations in Belgium ...
The Brussels-Capital Region is bilingual; hence, both the French and Dutch names of the station— Bruxelles-Nord and Brussel-Noord —are official. Outside Belgium, this often leads to the use of combined shorthands; for example in the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable, Brussels-North is designated as Brussels Nord / Noord; NS (Dutch Railways) announce the station as Brussel Noord/Nord.
The concession for the line from Creil to Beauvais, owned by CF de l'Est predecessor Chemins de fer des Ardennes, was exchanged for the Nord's concession for Laon–Reims in 1855. [5] In 1937, the CF du Nord was nationalised, as were the other main railway companies, to become part of the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF).
Valenciennes (/ ˌ v æ l ɒ̃ ˈ s j ɛ n /, [3] also UK: / ˌ v æ l ən s i ˈ ɛ n /, [4] US: /-n z, v ə ˌ l ɛ n s i ˈ ɛ n (z)/, [5] [6] French: [valɑ̃sjɛn] ⓘ; also Dutch: Valencijn; Picard: Valincyinnes or Valinciennes; Latin: Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France. [7] It lies on the Scheldt ...
It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of Nord. [3] Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubaix, Tourcoing is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest city in the French region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with about 97,000 inhabitants.
L'Armée du Nord under the command of Emperor Napoleon I. Major Général (Chief of Staff): Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia. Commander of artillery: General of Division Charles-Étienne-François Ruty. Field commanders under the direct command of Emperor Napoleon: Marshal Ney, Prince of the Moskova: