Marquise, Pas-de-Calais

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Coordinates: 50°48′55″N 1°42′15″E / 50.8152777778, 1.70416666667

Commune of Marquise
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Marquise
Intercommunality	Terre des deux caps
Mayor	Martial Herbert (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	1 m–67 m (avg. 39 m)
Land area¹	13,46 km²
Population² (1999)	4580
- Density	340/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	62560/ 62250
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.

Marquise is a commune of northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département.

Its inhabitants are called Marquisiens.

[edit] History

Main events:

• Part of the Flemish-speaking territory until 1346, Marquise became an English county under King Edward the third after the battle of Crécy and the hexagonal bell-tower goes back to the English period. In 1420, in the suburbs of Marquise, at Leulinghen, the church of which was divided by the French-English border, Henry the fifth married French King Charles the sixth's daughter, Katharine of France (réf.: Henry V by William Shakespeare);

• At the end of September and at the beginning of October 2006, Marquise was at the top of the currents events, in prime time in the main television news owing to its State military police force (gendarmerie) platoon, who got back to France a famous painting of Maurice Boitel, stolen forty years before.

info.france3.fr/insolite/24771923-fr.php - 100k - 13 déc 2006

Its history is covered by the French language Hist Opal site.

[edit] See also

• Slack River