Carency
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Carency is a village and commune of northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département.
It belongs to the communauté d'agglomération of Lens-Liévin (Communaupole) which gathers 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabitants.
- Population (1999): 668.
- Postal code: 62144.
[edit] Geography
Carency is also the name of the brook which constitutes the course upstream of Deûle and which crosses the village.
[edit] History
François Faber, winner of the 1909 Tour de France, died there in combat on May 9, 1915, during World War I.
[edit] External links
- Communaupole of Lens-Liévin website (in French)
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