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Auchel, Hauts-de-France
Auchel (; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France. Geography An ex-mining town, nowadays a light industrial & farming commune, situated southwest of Béthune and southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D183 and the D183E roads. History Following the discovery of coal deposits in the area in 1851, the town grew as the demand for coal increased in France. This old mining town had close to 15,000 inhabitants in the 1950s. The coal recession in the late 1960s lead to a constant decline in population, despite the efforts of the municipality to attract and keep people here during and after the recession. Population The inhabitants are called ''Auchellois''. Sights * The church of St. Martin, dating from the sixteenth century. * A museum about coal mining. International relations Auchel is twinned with: * West Malling, in the county of Kent, England. * Iserlohn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Notable people ...
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Communes Of France
A () is a level of administrative divisions of France, administrative division in the France, French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipality, municipalities in Canada and the United States; ' in Germany; ' in Italy; ' in Spain; or civil parishes in the United Kingdom. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlet (place), hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the Municipal arrondissem ...
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Xavier Beauvois
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Pierre Waché
Pierre Waché (born 10 December 1974) is a French Formula One engineer. He is the technical director at the Red Bull Racing Formula One team. Career Waché earned a doctorate in fluid dynamics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine, specialising in bio-mechanical engineering. After graduating, he began working in 2001 for the global tyre manufacturer Michelin in their Formula One programme, and was an engineer that was responsible for the interaction between tyres and track conditions for Formula One cars. At the end of 2006, Michelin left Formula One as a tire supplier, which resulted in Waché being recruited by BMW Sauber as a performance engineer, working with tyres and suspension. In 2009, BMW announced that it would leave Formula One, which resulted in Waché replacing Loïc Serra as the head of vehicle performance for Sauber. In 2013, he moved to Red Bull Racing and become the chief engineer with a focus on vehicle performance; six months later, he was app ...
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Afida Turner
Afida Turner (born Hafidda Messaï; December 22, 1976) is a French media personality and singer. She has released two studio albums and several singles, singing both in French and in English. She has also appeared in small roles in multiple films and starred in the stage play ''Requiem for une conne'' (2022). She was married to musician Ronnie Turner from 2007 until his death in 2022. Biography Afida Turner was born in Auchel, France. Her father was from Algeria and her mother from Réunion. When she was two years old, her father beat her mother to death. She lived with foster families until she was 16. She then worked as a saleswoman in ready-to-wear and was once employed by the Parisian bar-lounge Buddha Bar. In the 1990s, she started a singing career, releasing her debut single "Crazy About You" in 1998. She came to the public and media attention in 2002 by appearing in the second season of the French reality TV show '' Loft Story'' under the name Lesly. In 2002, Turner ...
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Stéphane Lecocq
Stéphane Lecocq (born October 22, 1976, in Auchel) is a French former professional football player who played in Ligue 2 for Amiens SC Amiens Sporting Club (; commonly referred to as Amiens SC or simply Amiens) is a French association football club based in the northern city of Amiens in the Hauts-de-France region. The club was formed in 1901 and play in Ligue 2, the second d .... References 1976 births Living people French men's footballers Ligue 2 players Amiens SC players AS Beauvais Oise players FC Rouen players AS Cherbourg Football players AS Cannes players Men's association football forwards Wasquehal Football players 20th-century French sportsmen {{france-footy-forward-1970s-stub ...
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Augustin Lesage (August 9, 1876 – February 21, 1954) was a French coal miner who became a painter and artist through the help of what he considered to be spirit voices. His style utilizes patterns and symmetry on a large scale, often accompanied by bright, vibrant colors. He was untrained and is considered an outsider artist, part of ''Art Brut''. Life Lesage was born in Saint-Pierre-les-Auchel, Pas-de-Calais, into a family of miners and was sent to work in a coal mine from an early age. In 1911, when he was 35 years old, Lesage claimed he heard a voice speak to him from the darkness of the mine and tell him, "One day you will be a painter". The only contact Lesage had had with the arts at that point in his life was a visit to the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille museum in Lille during his military service. The voice experience prompted him to explore communication with what he believed was the spirit world, and within a year of his first experience Lesage was hearing more voices ...
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Angela Behelle
Angela Behelle (born October 5, 1971, in Auchel) is a French romance novel writer. Biography Angela Behelle was born on October 5, 1971, in Auchel. She spent part of her childhood in Pas-de-Calais and studied law at the University of Lille. After her studies, she moved to Burgundy in the department of Yonne (département), Yonne. She is the author of erotic and romance novels published by various imprints of Groupe Flammarion, including J'ai Lu and Pygmalion, as well as by Éditions Leduc, France Loisirs, and . In June 2012, she published an erotic saga, ''La Société'', about the life of a secret society in the service of influential men. The story led to controversy on French social networks. In 2013, ''La Société'' was published as a paperback edition by Éditions J'ai lu. The same year, rumours about a film adaptation reached enthusiastic fans of the series, when Eric Porcher from Kap films and Arnaud Kerneguez from Kanibal searched for an erotic novel to adapt for t ...
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North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states (Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen), it is also the List of German states by population density, most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of , it is the List of German states by area, fourth-largest German state by size. North Rhine-Westphalia features 30 of the 81 German municipalities with over 100,000 inhabitants, including Cologne (over 1 million), the state capital Düsseldorf (630,000), Dortmund and Essen (about 590,000 inhabitants each) and other cities predominantly located in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, the largest urban area in Germany and the fourth-largest on the European continent. The location of the Rhine-Ruhr at the heart of the European Blue Banana make ...
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