Le Cateau-Cambrésis

Administration
Le Cateau-Cambrésis

Le Cateau-Cambrésis by Auguste Herbin
Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Cambrai
Canton	Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Intercommunality	Caudrésis–Catésis
Mayor	Serge Siméon (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	84–157 m (276–515 ft) (avg. 96 m/315 ft)
Land area¹	27.24 km² (10.52 sq mi)
Population²	7,453 (1999)
- Density	274 /km² (710 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	59136/ 59360
Website	lecateau.fr
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Le Cateau-Cambrésis is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

The term Cambrésis indicates that it lies in the county of that name which fell to the Prince-Bishop of Cambrai.

History

The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, ending the Italian Wars, was agreed there on April 2–3, 1559.
Until 1678, the city belonged to the Spanish Netherlands (now called Belgium). France conquered the city officially by the treaty of Nijmegen signed in 1678.
On 28 March 1794, allied forces under the prince of Coburg, defeated French forces at Le Cateau.
Le Cateau formed the right wing of the front of II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force at the Battle of Le Cateau on 26 August 1914, during its withdrawal from the Battle of Mons.

	The arms of Cateau-Cambrésis are blazoned : Azure, a 3-towered castle argent.

The Musée Départemental Henri Matisse installed in the Palais Fénelon in the center of Le Cateau boasts the third largest collection of Matisse works in France.

Births:

Henri Matisse, artist
Marshal Mortier
Pierre Nord
Raymond Poïvet, one of the creators of the famous French science fiction comics Les Pionniers de l'Espérance

Pierre Mauroy was a high school student in Le Cateau, and later its representative at the general council for the Nord department.

Communes of the Nord department