Picard
Picard may refer to:
*Picardy, a region of France
*Picard language, a language of France
*Jean-Luc Picard, a fictional character in the ''Star Trek'' franchise
Places
* Picard, California, USA
* Picard, Quebec, Canada
* Picard (crater), a lunar ...
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (; pcd, Heuts-d'Franche; , also ''Upper France'') is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille. The ...
in northern
France
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.
Geography
Driencourt is situated on the D181 road, some northwest of Saint-Quentin.
Population
History
As with many towns in this part of France,
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
saw the place reduced to rubble.
A Parisian architect, Jacques Debat-Ponsan, was employed to design and reconstruct the town's public buildings.
* Reconstruction of the school and Mayor's office – accomplished in 1927
* Reconstruction of the church achieved in 1920
* Other reconstructions. A certain number of homes, judging by their style, were rebuilt by the same architect.