France
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suburb
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of the city of
Lille
Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...
, bordering it on its north side.
Heraldry
History
In 1944, Pierre Marchant and Lucien Olivier, two members of the
French resistance
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from La Madeleine, were killed near
Hill 60 (Ypres)
Hill 60 is a World War I battlefield memorial site and park in the Zwarteleen area of Zillebeke south of Ypres, Belgium. It is located about from the centre of Ypres and is directly on the railway line to Comines. Before the First World War th ...
by Germans.
Population
Education
Schools in the commune:
* Public preschools (''écoles maternelles''):
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945)Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new li ...
, Courbet, d'Hallendre, du Moulin - Alphonse Daudet, and Gaston LeclercqMaternelles et élémentaires " La Madeleine, Nord. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
* Public elementary schools:
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...
, Louise de Bettignies, Kléber, and Edmond Rostand
* Private preschools and elementary schools: Institution Jeanne d'Arc and Ecole Sainte-Geneviève
* One public junior high school, Collège FlandreEtablissements secondaires " La Madeleine, Nord. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
* One private junior high school, Collège privé Saint-Jean
* One public senior high school, Lycée Valentine Labbé
The ''École Japonaise du Nord-Pas-de-Calais'' (ノール=パ・ド・カレー日本人学校 ''Nōsu Pa do Karē Nihonjin Gakkō''), a part-time Japanese supplementary school, is held in La Madeleine.欧州の補習授業校一覧（平成25年4月15日現在）
.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
The , also known as MEXT, is one of the eleven ministries of Japan that compose part of the executive branch of the government of Japan.
History
The Meiji period, Meiji government created the first Ministry of Education in 1871. In January 2001 ...
(MEXT). Retrieved on May 10, 2014. "Ecole Japonaise du Nord-Pas de Calais 116,45 Rue du Maréchal Foch, 59110 La Madeleine FRANCE"
See also
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Communes of the Nord department
The following is a list of the 647 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):