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The Bibliothèque municipale de Douai, now known as Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore ( named after the Douai-born poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore) is a library located in Douai, France. Founded in 1767, it was bombed on August 11, 1944. [1] The library reopened in 1955, in a new building designed by the architect Maurice Coasnes. [2]
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Douai became the seat of the Parliament of Flanders . The local airfield at La Brayelle was very significant in the history of French aviation. It operated from 1907 to the mid-1950s. In 1909 it was the site of the world's first aeronautical meeting, [6] Douai was again caught up in hostilities in World War I.
The courtyard of the Hôtel de Ville. Ferdinand, Count of Flanders gave the aldermen of Douai a charter in September 1228, but it was not until at least a century later that an ancient town hall was actually erected. [2] The oldest part of the current complex is the belfry, construction of which began in 1380.
Au cirque, le peintre et le saltimbanque, shown at the Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai 9 April-18 July 2004. Commissariat Général : Françoise Baligand & Zéev Gourarier. Catalogue : Au cirque, le peintre et le saltimbanque, collectif, Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai - Somogy Éditions d'Art, Paris (2004). ISBN 2-85056-736-1.
Carriers below the giant couple in front of the town hall Gayant and Marie Cagenon Family of Gayant of Douai (1780) by Louis Joseph Watteau in Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai. Gayants in 1910. Gayant is a processional giant that symbolizes the city of Douai. It is carried through the city for three days each year at the beginning of July as ...
Adolph Douai. Karl Daniel Adolf Douai (1819 – 1888), known to his peers as "Adolf", was a German Texan teacher as well as a socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor.Douai was driven from Texas in 1856 due to his published opposition of slavery, living out the rest of his life as a school operator in the New England city of Boston.
The English College (French: College des Grands Anglais) was a Catholic seminary in Douai, France (also previously spelled Douay, and in English Doway), associated with the University of Douai. It was established in 1568, and was suppressed in 1793. It is known for a Bible translation referred to as the Douay–Rheims Bible. Of over 300 British ...