Aix-en-Issart () is a commune in the

Pas-de-Calais The Pas-de-Calais (, ' strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France, with 890, and is the ...

department in northern

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. A place named ''in Ascio'' is mentioned as early as 800 AD while during the

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the place used to be called ''Rodenaken'' by

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speaking people.''Aix-en-Issart/Rodenaken''
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A small village situated some 5 miles(7 km) east of

Montreuil-sur-Mer Montreuil-sur-Mer (; or ; ), Montreuil-on-the-Sea, is a subprefecture in the Pas-de-Calais Department in northern France. Though commonly called by this name since at least the twelfth century, it was legally known as Montreuil until 31 Decemb ...

, at the D149 and D129 crossroads, by the banks of the small river Bras de Bronne, a tributary of the

Canche The river Canche (; ) is one of the rivers that flow from the plateau of southern Boulonnais and Picardy, into the English Channel, of which the Somme is the largest example. It is long. The basin of the Canche extends to and lies in the sou ...

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Notable person

Jean de Beaurain Jean de Beaurain (17 January 1696 – 12 February 1771) was a French geographer. Jean de Beaurain was a French geographer — geographer of Louis XV — born on 7 January 1696 in Aix-en-Issart in Artois and died on 12 February 1771 in Paris. Lif ...

(1696–1771), geographer, was born in Aix-en-Issart.

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Communes of Pas-de-Calais {{Montreuil-geo-stub

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