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Guise ( , ; nl, Wieze) is a commune in the
Over a period of 20 years, beginning about 1856, Jean-Baptiste Godin built the (the Social Palace), an industrial and communal residential complex that was a separate community within Guise. It expressed many of his ideas about developing social sympathy through improved housing and services for workers and their families, influenced by the ideas of the philosopher Charles Fourier. In 1880 Godin created a cooperative association by which the workers owned and managed the complex. This continued until 1968.
On the 29th of August 1914 the
Aisne
Aisne ( , ; ; pcd, Ainne) is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne. In 2019, it had a population of 531,345.department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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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. The city was the birthplace of the noble family of Guise, Dukes of Guise, who later became Princes of Joinville
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.
Population
Sights
The remains of the medieval castle of Guise, the seat of theDukes of Guise
Count of Guise and Duke of Guise (pronounced ¡É¥iz were titles in the French nobility.
Originally a seigneurie, in 1417 Guise was erected into a county for René, a younger son of Louis II of Anjou.
While disputed by the House of Luxembourg ( ...
, is within the commune.
Economy
Guise is the agricultural centre of the northern area of Aisne.Miscellaneous
Guise was the birthplace of Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), a journalist and politician who played an important part in the French Revolution, and that of Jeanne Macherez who was a heroine during the World War I.
Over a period of 20 years, beginning about 1856, Jean-Baptiste Godin built the (the Social Palace), an industrial and communal residential complex that was a separate community within Guise. It expressed many of his ideas about developing social sympathy through improved housing and services for workers and their families, influenced by the ideas of the philosopher Charles Fourier. In 1880 Godin created a cooperative association by which the workers owned and managed the complex. This continued until 1968.
On the 29th of August 1914 the Battle of St. Quentin (1914)
The Battle of St. Quentin (also called the First Battle of Guise (french: 1ere Bataille de Guise) was fought from 29 to 30 August 1914, during the First World War.
Battle
On the night of 26 August 1914, the Allies withdrew from Le Cateau to ...
was fought in and around the town. A memorial in Guise celebrates this event.
See also
* House of Guise * Communes of the Aisne departmentReferences
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