Le Cateau-Cambrésis

French commune
nomcommune=Le Cateau-Cambrésis
- 1921"
région=Nord-Pas-de-Calais
département=Nord
arrondissement=Cambrai
canton=Le Cateau-Cambrésis
insee= 59136
cp= 59360
maire= Serge Siméon
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm=Communauté de communes du Pays de Matisse
longitude=3.544544444 |latitude=50.10416944
alt moy= 96 m
alt mini=84 m
alt maxi=157 m
hectares=2,724
km²=27.24
sans= 7,453
date-sans=1999
dens=274
date-dens=1999

Le Cateau-Cambrésis is a commune in northern France, in the Nord "département".

The term Cambrésis indicates that it lies in the county of that name which fell to the Prince-Bishop of Cambrai.

History

*The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, ending the Italian Wars, was agreed there on April 2-3, 1559.
*On March 28 1794, allied forces under the prince of Coburg, defeated French forces at Le Cateau.
*Le Cateau formed the right wing of the front of II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force at the Battle of Le Cateau on August 26 1914, during its withdrawal from the Battle of Mons.

Miscellaneous

Le Cateau-Cambrésis was the birthplace of the painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954). The "Musée Départemental Henri Matisse" installed in the Palais Fénelon in the center of Le Cateau boasts the third largest collection of Matisse works in France.

The museum also benefited from a Tériade donation.

Le Cateau is also the birthplace of Marshal Mortier, Pierre Nord and Raymond Poïvet, one of the creators of the famous French science fiction comics "Les Pionniers de l'Espérance".

Pierre Mauroy was a high school student in Le Cateau, and later its representative at the general council for the Nord "département".

External links

* [http://www.nordmag.com/nord_pas_de_calais/cateau_cambresis/le_cateau.htm Webpage about Le Cateau-Cambrésis] (in French)
* [http://www.tourisme-lecateau.fr Tourist office] (in French)
* [http://beffroivision.chez.tiscali.fr Beffroivision, local TV channel]

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