Élincourt-Sainte-Marguerite () is a

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in the

Oise Oise ( ; ; pcd, Oése) is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise. Inhabitants of the department are called ''Oisiens'' () or ''Isariens'', after the Latin name for the river, Isara. It had a population of 829,41 ...

department in northern

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. Élincourt-Sainte-Marguerite is situated between

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and

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the N ...

in the region of Hauts-de-France, 100 km from

, 80 km from

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, and 145 km from

Population

The residents of the commune are called ''Élincourtois''.

Personalities

Élincourt-Sainte-Marguerite was the birthplace of: * Abel Lefranc (1863-1952),

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

of French literature, expert on Rabelais.

Population

Personalities

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