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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), ...
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (; ; ), also referred to in English as Upper France, is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille. ...
in northern France.
Geography
Roye is situated at the junction of the
A1 autoroute
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and the N17 road, on the banks of the
Avre
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, some southeast of
Amiens
Amiens (English: or ; ; , or ) is a city and Communes of France, commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme (department), Somme Departments of France, department in the region ...
.
Population
History
*In 1634, religious refugees from
Seville
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, Spain, known as the illuministes tried to establish themselves in France. They claimed to be inspired by celestial messages. Pierre Guérin, curate of Saint-Georges, was converted and himself created many disciples, called "les Guérinistes". The Catholic Church sought out and executed all of them by 1635.
*In 2015, a mass shooting took place in a Roma camp in which four people died.
Places of interest
* Church of Saint Pierre. Rebuilt in concrete in 1930 after considerable damage during the
First World War
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. The 12th century choir and apse and the 15th century stained-glass windows were all saved.Source : Quotidien :fr:Le Courrier Picard (édition de la Somme) du 4 novembre 2007.
* The Hôtel de Ville (Town hall), built between 1775 and 1777 by the architect Pierre Dercheu was blown-up with dynamite by the retreating Germans on 17 March 1917. The new building, by local architect Arthur Régnier, was completed in 1932. It is reminiscent of the original by Dercheu.
Personalities
*
Gracchus Babeuf
The Gracchi brothers were two brothers who lived during the beginning of the late Roman Republic: Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus. They served in the plebeian tribunates of 133 BC and 122–121 BC, respectively. They have bee ...
, a protagonist during the French Revolution was born nearby and lived and worked here.
* Pierre Guérin, an illuministe preacher. Curate of Saint-Georges church, Roye
* Abbot Jules Corblet (1819–1886),
hagiographer
A hagiography (; ) is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an wiktionary:adulatory, adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religi ...
for the diocese of Amiens.
See also
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Communes of the Somme department
The following is a list of the 771 communes of the Somme department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Raymond Couvègnes