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Frédéric Leturque
Frédéric Leturque (born 10 September 1968) is a French politician serving as mayor of Arras since 2011. He concurrently serves as president of the Communauté urbaine d'Arras since 2020. He has been a member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France since 2016, and was a member of the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais The Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais was the deliberative assembly of the former French region Nord-Pas-de-Calais, a decentralized territorial community acting on the regional territory. It sat between 1974 and its disappearance in December ... from 2004 to 2010. References 1968 births Living people The Centrists politicians Members of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France Mayors of Arras 21st-century mayors of places in France {{France-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arras
Arras ( , ; ; historical ) is the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department, which forms part of the region of Hauts-de-France; before the reorganization of 2014 it was in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The historic centre of the Artois region, with a Baroque town square, Arras is in northern France at the confluence of the rivers Scarpe and Crinchon. The Arras plain is on a large chalk plateau bordered on the north by the Marqueffles fault, on the southwest by the Artois and Ternois hills, and on the south by the slopes of Beaufort-Blavincourt. On the east it is connected to the Scarpe valley. Saint Vedast (or St. Vaast) was the first Catholic bishop in the year 499 and tried to eliminate paganism among the Franks. By 843, Arras was seat of the County of Artois which became part of the Royal domain in 1191. The first mention of the name ''Arras'' appeared in the 12th century. Some hypothesize it is a contraction of '' Atrebates'', a Belgic tribe of Gaul and Britain that u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe
Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe (born 29 March 1939) is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who has been serving as a member of the Senate since 2001. Early life and career Vanlerenberghe was born in Bully-les-Mines, Pas-de-Calais. He is an engineer by training, having studied at the Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers in Lille and holding a degree from the Centre des Hautes Études de la Construction. He worked in Arras for the Public Works Commission, also holding jobs from 1964 to 1974 at Rhône-Poulenc and the Centre d'Études Supérieurs Industrielles. From 1981 to 1986, Vanlerenberghe led the Fédération Nationale du Crédit Mutuel Agricole et Rural in Paris; from 1990 to 1993, he directed the Conseil en Développement d'Entreprises et Ressources Humaines. Political career Member of the European Parliament Vanlerenberghe was a Member of the European Parliament from 1986 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1994. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Centrists
The Centrists (, , ), known as The Centrists – New Centre ( , ) since 2018, formerly known as New Centre (, ) and European Social Liberal Party ( , ), is a centre-right political party in France formed by the members of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) – including 18 of the 29 members of the UDF in the National Assembly) – who did not agree with François Bayrou's decision to found the Democratic Movement (MoDem) and wanted to support the newly-elected president Nicolas Sarkozy, continuing the UDF–Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) alliance. The party was founded on 29 May 2007 during a press conference and renamed on 11 December 2016. History The Centrists trace their history to the major centrist and Christian-democratic political parties in the Fourth and Fifth Republics. The parties maintained a separate existence from the Gaullist parties in the early years of the Fifth Republic primarily because of de Gaulle's strong opposition to European integration. However ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ici (radio Network)
Ici (; formerly ''France Bleu'' ) is a network of local and regional radio stations in France, part of the national public broadcasting group Radio France. The network has a public service mission to serve local audiences and provides local news and content from each of its forty-four stations. Ici was created as France Bleu in 2000 by a fusion of two older Radio France networks, ''Les locales de Radio France'' and ''Radio Bleue''. The flagship station in Paris goes by the name of ici Paris Île-de-France, while the individual stations are each named for their respective coverage areas, usually a département, région, or city. Céline Pigalle has been director of the Ici network since 2023. His predecessors include Philippe Chaffanjon (2012–2013), Anne Brucy (2010–2012), Claude Perrier (2013–2014), Claude Esclatine (2014–2016), Frédéric Schlesinger (ad-interim; 2016), Éric Revel (2016–2018) and Jean-Emmanuel Casalta (2018–2023). History Disjointed beginnings (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté Urbaine D'Arras
The Communauté urbaine d'Arras is the ''communauté urbaine'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Arras. It is located in the Pas-de-Calais department, in the Hauts-de-France region, northern France. It was created in January 1998, replacing the previous ''district urbain d'Arras''. Its area is 306.0 km2. Its population was 108,347 in 2018, of which 41,555 in Arras proper.Comparateur de territoire INSEE. 5 April 2022. Composition The Communauté urbaine d'Arras consists of the following 46 communes:CU d'Arras (N° SIREN : 200033579)BANATIC. Accessed 17 October 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Council Of Hauts-de-France
The Regional Council of Hauts-de-France ( French: ''Conseil régional des Hauts-de-France;'' Picard: ''Consièl régional d'chés Heuts-d'Franche)'' is the deliberative assembly of the Hauts-de-France region in Northern France. It was named Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie before the vote of the regional councillors on 14 March 2016 on the name of the new region, after public consultation. This new name had however to be confirmed by the Government of France and Conseil d'État by the decree of 28 September 2016.(in FrenchDécret n°2016-1265 du 28 septembre 2016 portant fixation du nom et du chef-lieu de la région Hauts-de-France, publié au Journal Officiel du 29 septembre 2016./ref>(in French ''Le Monde'', 31 July 2015. Since 4 January 2016, the body has been presided over by Xavier Bertrand. History The Regional Council of Hauts-de-France, created by the law on the delimitation of regions, regional and departmental elections and modifying the electoral calendar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Council Of Nord-Pas-de-Calais
The Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais was the deliberative assembly of the former French region Nord-Pas-de-Calais, a decentralized territorial community acting on the regional territory. It sat between 1974 and its disappearance in December 2015 at the Hôtel de Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, located on avenue du Président-Hoover, in Lille. It was chaired by April 13, 2001, to 2015 by the socialist Daniel Percheron. References {{Regional Councils (France) Nord-Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais (; ; West Flemish: ''Nôord-Nauw van Kales'') was a former regions of France, administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new Regions of France, region Hauts-de-France. It consisted of the ... Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2001 establishments in France 2014 disestablishments in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Voix Du Nord
''La Voix du Nord'' (; or 'The Voice of Nord') is a regional daily newspaper from the north of France. Its headquarters are in Lille. History ''Voix du Nord'' was one of the underground newspapers of the French Resistance founded in German-occupied France during World War II. The paper first appeared in Lille in April 1941 at a time when the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais was being ruled by a German military government in Brussels. The newspaper's tag-line described itself as the "Resistance organ of French Flanders." The post-war version of the paper is part of the Belgian company, Rossel group, which also owns the major Belgian newspaper ''Le Soir'', which it bought from Socpresse in 2006. Origins in Occupied France is a clandestine newspaper that gave rise to a movement of political resistance. The resistance group was called ''Voix du Nord'' ("Voice of the North"—of France, or, "Voice of the '' Nord''"—a French department). Sixty-five copies of the first issue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Births
Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being 1968 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, elected leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Australian Senate, Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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The Centrists Politicians
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
