Valenciennes
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- Names
Valenciennes
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Ruled by Charlemagne 811; part of Holy Roman Empire; passed to counts of Hainaut 1047; famous for lacemaking 15th cen.; taken by Louis XIV 1677; ceded to France 1678; besieged 1814; captured by Germans 1914-1918; birthplace of Jean Watteau 1684.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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