Falvy

Falvy
Commune
Falvy Lake
Falvy
Location within Hauts-de-France region
Falvy
Coordinates: 49°49′30″N 2°57′35″E / 49.825°N 2.9597°E / 49.825; 2.9597Coordinates: 49°49′30″N 2°57′35″E / 49.825°N 2.9597°E / 49.825; 2.9597
Country France
Region Hauts-de-France
Department Somme
Arrondissement Péronne
Canton Ham
Intercommunality CC Est de la Somme
Government
 • Mayor (2001–2008) Jean-Louis Duclaux
Area1 6.32 km2 (2.44 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 142
 • Density 22/km2 (58/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 80300 /80190
Elevation 51–91 m (167–299 ft)
(avg. 60 m or 200 ft)

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.

Falvy is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography

Falvy is situated on the D103 road, on the banks of the river Somme, some 19 miles (31 km) west of Saint Quentin.

History

Falvy originated 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 22 November 1916, fighter-ace-pilot Georges Guynemer claimed his 23rd victim at Falvy.
  • On 9 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.

Population

Historical population of Falvy
Year19541962196819751982199019992006
Population138117118108116106100142
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

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

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