La Faloise (; Picard: ''Faloèse'' ) is a commune in the

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department in

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in northern

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Geography

La Faloise is situated on the D193 road, on the banks of the river

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, some south of

Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...

La Faloise station La Faloise is a railway station located in the commune of La Faloise in the Somme department, France. It is served by TER Hauts-de-France trains from Creil to Amiens. Its elevation is 85 m. It was first opened on 20 June 1846, when the Paris-A ...

has rail connections to Amiens and Creil.

History

La Faloise grew around a 13th-century château, which was ransacked in 1358, and then rebuilt early in the 15th century by the

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. It was attacked by the English and taken in 1442. The chateau returned to the Burgundians under Charles le Téméraire, on return from his defeat at

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. When he died in 1477, the towns of the

reverted to the French crown. La Faloise was then in the hands of the Montmorency family,

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of Breteuil. In the middle of the 15th century Louis I de Bourbon married Eléonore of Roye and became seigneur of La Faloise. By the end of the century, the village had experienced much upheaval, being taken by the Ligueurs, Royalist, and then the

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. To complete the misfortune, the population was decimated by the

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in 1668. The

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saw La Faloise rebuilt and industrialised. It became famous for the fabrication of nails. This prosperity lasted until about 1850. The village was occupied by the Germans during the conflicts of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the

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and the

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. The church was burnt down in 1940 and rebuilt after the war.

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