commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Somme __NOTOC__
Somme or The Somme may refer to: Places
*Somme (department), a department of France
*Somme, Queensland, Australia
*Canal de la Somme, a canal in France
*Somme (river), a river in France
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Somme'' (book), a ...
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 Regions of France, region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its Prefectu ...
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 one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
saw the place reduced to rubble.
A Parisian architect,
Jacques Debat-Ponsan
Jacques Harold Edouard Debat-Ponsan (Copenhagen, 21 August 1882 - Paris, 1942) was a French architect.
Life
Debat-Ponsan studied in the ''atelier'' of Victor Laloux at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took the Prix d ...
, 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.