Talk:Abbeville
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[edit] Moved from article
The following was added to the article. I have moved it to the talk page.
The following text, from a turn of the century encyclopedia should be updated, wikified and incorporated into the above article:
It lies in a pleasant and fertile valley, and is built partly on an island and partly on both sides of the river, which is canalized from this point to the estuary. The streets are narrow, and the houses are mostly picturesque old structures, built of wood, with many quaint gables and dark archways. The most remarkable building is the church of St Vulfran. Abbeville has several other old churches and an Hotel de Ville, with a belfry of the 13th century. Among the numerous old houses, that known as the Maison de Francois I, which is the most remarkable, dates from the 16th century. There is a statue of Admiral Courbet (d. 1885) by Alexandre Falguière in the chief square. The public institutions include tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a board of trade-arbitrators, and a communal college. Abbeville is an important industrial centre; in addition to its old-established manufacture of cloth, hemp-spinning, sugar-making, shipbuilding and locksmiths' work are carried on; there is active commerce in grain, but the port has little trade.
AecisBrievenbus 23:14, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] This doesn't sound right
- On 12th September 1939 in Abbeville took place a conference in which France and Great Britain decided not to help Poland in its fight against Germany.
Considering that the UK had already declared war by then, surely the UK had already decided to help Poland? It's unrefereced, so I will tag it as such. Mjroots (talk) 16:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
