Falvy

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Coordinates: 49°49′30″N 2°57′35″E / 49.825, 2.95972222222

Commune of Falvy
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Picardie
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Péronne
Canton	Canton de Nesle
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de Nesle
Mayor	Jean-Louis Duclaux (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	51 m–91 m (avg. 60 m)
Land area¹	6,32 km²
Population² (1999)	100
- Density	15/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	80300/ 80190
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Falvy is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Population 4 Places of interest 5 See also 6 External links 7 Notes

[edit] Geography

Situated on the D103 road, on the banks of the river Somme, some 19 miles west of Saint Quentin.

[edit] History

Falvy finds its origins as a Gaulish village. Known by different names over the centuries :Fala, Falvicum in 1135, Phalevi in 1146, then Fallevy or Falevi sur Somme and finally Falvy Principle events :

• In the 12th century, Raoul I de Nesle, seigneur of both Nesle and Falvy, gave the windmill of Falvy-sur-Somme to the church at Saint-Quentin.
• 1629 and Louis XIII dismantles the château , a medieval fortress
• On 22nd November 1916, fighter-ace-pilot Georges Guynemer claimed his 23rd victim at Falvy.
• On the 9th August 1918, the bridge at Falvy was attacked by Lieutenant James Alfred Keating , an American volunteer in the RFC. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross.

[edit] Population

Population Growth

1954	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
138	117	118	108	116	106	100
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting

[edit] Places of interest

• The church of Saint Benoite has dimensions that are relative to a time when the population was larger. Its origin was as a chapel to the chateau. It was victim of revolutionary vandalism in 1792, losing much of its embellishment and harmony by such destruction.
• The Lake

[edit] See also

Communes of the Somme department

[edit] External links

• Falvy on the Insee website (French)
• Falvy on the Quid website (French)

[edit] Notes

• This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on February 12th 2008.