Nesle
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Commune of Nesle |
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| Administration | ||
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| Country | France | |
| Region | Picardie | |
| Department | Somme | |
| Arrondissement | Péronne | |
| Canton | Nesle (chef-lieu) |
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| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de Nesle | |
| Mayor | Paul Pilot (2001-2008) |
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| Elevation | 57 m–82 m (avg. 79 m) |
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| Land area¹ | 7,72 km² | |
| Population² (1999) |
2451 | |
| - Density | 317/km² | |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 80585/ 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. | ||
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Nesle is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.
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[edit] Geography
Situated at the junction of the D930 and D337 roads, some 16 miles southwest of Saint Quentin. The Ingon, a small stream, passes through the commune
[edit] Population
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 |
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| 2417 | 2483 | 2811 | 2643 | 2642 | 2451 |
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[edit] People with links to the commune
- Amaury de Nesle (c.1180), a Patriarch of Jerusalem.
[edit] Nesle family
Nesle gave its name to an old feudal family. This family became extinct at the beginning of the 13th century, and the heiress brought the lordship to the family of Clermont in the Beauvaisis.
Simon de Clermont, seigneur de Nesle, was regent of the kingdom of France during the second crusade of Saint Louis. Raoul de Clermont, constable of France, and Guy I (d. 1302) and Guy II (d. 1352) de Clermont, both marshals of France, were members of the family. The lordship of Nesle was elevated to a county for Charles de Sainte-Maure in 1467 and into a marquisate for Louis de Sainte-Maure in 1546. It was acquired in 1666 by Louis Charles de Mailly. His grandson, Louis de Mailly, had five daughters, of whom four (the Countess of Mailly, the Duchess of Lauragais, the Countess of Vintimille, and the Marquise de la Tournelle, afterwards the Duchess of Chateauroux) were successively, or simultaneously, mistresses of Louis XV.
[edit] See also
Communes of the Somme department
[edit] External links
- Nesle official website
- Nesle on the Insee website (French)
- Nesle on the Quid website (French)
[edit] Notes
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- This article is based on the original and the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on March 11th 2008.
