Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil () is a

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in the

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in the

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region of northern

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Geography

Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil is located some 10 km east of

Rethel Rethel () is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture and third-most important city and economic center in the department. It is situated on the river Aisne, near the northern border of Champagne and 37& ...

and 35 km south-west of

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. The D30 road from

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to Écordal passes through the northern part of the commune. The village can be accessed off the D30 via the D14 which passes through the village then continues east to

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. There is also the D43 road from just south of Écordal which passes south through the commune to

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. A branch railway line passes through the commune from

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station in the west to the station just south of the village and the line continues south-east to Attigny station. Apart from the village the commune consists entirely of farmland.Google Maps
/ref> ''La Foivre'' stream flows south through the eastern part of the commune and continues to join the

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and again during the Second. The village was partially destroyed. On 6 April 1944 six people were arrested on the Chesnois farm and deported for helping airmen of the

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, whose aircraft were shot down, to evade capture by the Germans.commemoration of the martyrs of March-April 1944''
L'Union, 19 April 2011

Heraldry

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Population

Sites and Monuments

*The Church of Saint Catherine (12th century) is a Romanesque church located in the heart of the village. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1986.Ministry of Culture, Mérimée *Some beautiful fortified farms, mostly made of brick. *A Chateau in the hamlet of Sausseuil.

Notable people linked to the commune

Charles Batteux Charles Batteux (6 May 171314 July 1780) was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics. Biography Batteux was born in Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil, Ardennes, and studied theology at Reims. In 1739 he came to Paris, and after teaching in the colle ...

(1713-1780) was a clergyman, Translator, Latin scholar, author of scholastic books. Professor of rhetoric. Held a Chair of Greek and Latin philosophy. Member of the Academy of Sciences in 1754. *The

French Resistance The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...

fighters arrested by the Gestapo at the Chesnois farm in 1944: the Fromentin family (Georges, Georgette, Jean, Lucienne), Paul Sagnet, Blanche Deloche-Sagnet, Charles Lambert, Robert Couvin.