Audresselles
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| Commune of Audresselles | |
| Location | |
| Longitude | 01°35'41" E |
| Latitude | 50°49'28" N |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
| Department | Pas-de-Calais |
| Arrondissement | Boulogne-sur-Mer |
| Canton | Marquise |
| Intercommunality | Terre des deux caps |
| Mayor | Roger Tourret (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 0 m–114 m (avg. 30 m) |
| Land area¹ | 5.72 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
685 |
| - Density (1999) | 119.7/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 62056/ 62164 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Audresselles is a seaside French village and commune, south of Cape Gris Nez, in the Pas-de-Calais département, Nord-Pas-de-Calais région. The commune covers about 2000 acres (8 km²) of cultivated lands, two beaches, and seashore cliffs. Its original name was Oderzell.
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[edit] City council
- Roger Tourret, mayor since 1974,
- Deputy mayors : Jean Ruano-Camaro, Paul Ellart, Dominique Vanhersecke,
- Mayor's secretarial assistants: Dorothée Pouilly, Nathalie Lemaître.
[edit] History
Between the end of English occupation in 1558 and the middle of the 17th century, Audresselles seigneury included Haringzelle hamlet; today, this is now a forest hiding the former German artillery batteries of Audinghen. This seigneury was owned by the Acary family, which gave some admirals to the French fleet and from whom most of the borough fishermen are descended.
An old fishers village, Audresselles has kept its characteristic features: its long houses with a colored strip along the lower part of the walls, in the village center, and somme villas of the "Belle Époque" in front of the English Channel. Professional fishing families still live in Audresselles, and one of them uses the village sand beach to land its ship. The traditional flobarts (little trunkated drakkars) are still used by the holiday yachtsmen.
[edit] Monuments
- The Church of Saint John the Baptist, fortified, 12th century, with large canvas of the Second Empire painted in the catholic workhalls of father Jacques Paul Migne in the style of Delacroix and a little 18th century reredos.
- Saint-John farm (beginning of the 17th century);
- The coaching inn, rue Édouard Quénu (18th century).
[edit] Beach and Dune Fauna
[edit] Birds
- Gulls, cormorants, jackdaws, loons, mallards, bitterns, sandpipers, snipes, oystercatchers, herons, curlews, egrets, guillemots, peregrine falcons, swans, and geese.
[edit] Marine mammals
- Some black-headed seals have settled down in the creeks behind the village since July 2006 and dislike to be disturbed, following the swimmers to the beach.
- Orcas (killer whales), pilot whales, dolphins and porpoises.
[edit] Flora
Plants of this region are those that can resist the salt-laden southwesterly wind:
- Lyciet, privet, spindle-tree, eleagnus, speedwell, marram grass and Armeria maritima.
[edit] Notable people from Audresselles
Dead
- Robert Beauvais, writer and journalist
- Albert Besson, bactériologist
- Carolus-Duran, painter
- Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, painter
- Philippe de Hauteclocque said Leclerc, marshal of France
- Edmond Marin La Meslée, aviator
- Jean Quenu, surgeon
Alive
- Maurice Boitel, painter
- Catherine Destivelle, alpinist
- Andreas Dilthey, architect
- Henri Dutilleux, composer
- Marc Aschmann, composer, musician, writer, cook
