department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in the
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 ...
coalmining
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area, now a farming and
light industrial
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town, Wingles lies north of Lens, at the junction of the N47, D39 and the D165 roads.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St. Leger, rebuilt along with the rest of the town, after World War I.
Notable people
*
Émilienne Moreau-Evrard
Émilienne Moreau-Evrard (4 June 1898 – 5 January 1971) was a French heroine of World War I, a high-profile female member of the "Brutus" Resistance network during World War II and later, a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly. Mor ...
, French resistance heroine, was born at Wingles in 1898.