Rebreuve-Ranchicourt is a

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in the

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in the

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region of

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Geography

Rebreuve-Ranchicourt is situated about southwest of

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and southwest of

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, at the junction of the D341 (an old

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road, the Chaussée Brunehaut) and the D57 road. The commune was created in 1971 by the joining of the former communes Rebreuve-sous-les-Monts and Ranchicourt.

Population

Places of interest

* The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the nineteenth century. * An eighteenth-century

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. * The church of St.Pierre, dating from the fifteenth century. * The nineteenth-century château de Ranchicourt with an older

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and other outbuildings.

Geography

Population

Places of interest

See also