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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]
The Douai Martyrs is a name applied by the Catholic Church to 158 Catholic priests from Great Britain who studied at the English College, Douai and were subsequently executed by the Kingdom of England between 1577 and 1680.
Douaisis Agglo (before 2019: Communauté d'agglomération du Douaisis) is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Douai. It is located in the Nord department, in the Hauts-de-France region, northern France. It was created in January 2014. Its seat is in Douai. [1] Its area is 235.7 km 2. Its ...
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.
IMT Nord Europe or École nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Lille Douai is a French graduate school of engineering (grande école d'ingénieurs).It is located in the Hauts-de-France region, shared between 2 campuses: the science campus (cité scientifique) of the University of Lille (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, European Metropolis of Lille); and the city of Douai.
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 ...
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.
Les Cahiers du Sud (literally “The Southern Notebooks”) was a French literary journal published in Marseille. It was founded in 1914, as Fortunio , by the teenage Marcel Pagnol , although publication ended a few months later at the outbreak of the Great War .