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A French-speaking Walloon town[edit] Grand-Place of Tournai. Tournai is a French-speaking town of Belgium. The local language is tournaisien, a Picard dialect similar to that of other municipalities of Hainaut and Northern France. Tournai also belongs to Romance Flanders, like Lille, Douai, Tourcoing, and Mouscron.
Tournaisis. The Tournaisis, or Tournai (Flemish: Doornik ), a territory in the Low Countries in present-day Belgium, is one of Europe's oldest town centres. [1] Located in the Wallonia region of Belgium on the Scheldt River (French: L'Escaut ), northwest of Mons, Tournai residents are primarily French-speaking.
Siege of Tournai (1340) / 50.60556°N 3.38806°E / 50.60556; 3.38806. The siege of Tournai (23 July - 25 September 1340) occurred during the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War. The siege began when a coalition of England, Flanders, Hainaut, Brabant and the Holy Roman Empire under the command of King Edward III of England besieged ...
The Grand-Place ( French: [ɡʁɑ̃ plas]; "Grand Square" [a]) is the main square and the centre of activity of Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium. The square has a triangular shape, owing it to the convergence of several ancient paths, [2] and it covers 7,500 m 2 (81,000 sq ft). As in many Belgian cities, there are a number of cafés and pubs on the ...
The Battle of Tournay or Battle of Tournai or Battle of Pont-à-Chin (22 May 1794) saw Republican French forces led by Jean-Charles Pichegru attack Coalition forces under Emperor Francis II and Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After a bitter all-day struggle, Coalition troops recaptured a few key positions including Pont-à-Chin, forcing ...
The Diocese of Tournai ( Latin: Dioecesis Tornacensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Belgium. The diocese was formed in 1146, upon the dissolution of the Diocese of Noyon and Tournai, which had existed since the 7th century. [1] It is now suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the ...
French Flanders ( French: La Flandre française, pronounced [flɑ̃dʁə fʁɑ̃sɛz]) [1] is a part of the historical County of Flanders, where Flemish —a Low Franconian dialect cluster of Dutch —was (and to some extent, still is) traditionally spoken. The region lies in the modern-day northern French region of Hauts-de-France, and roughly ...
TV France International, the French TV promotion organisation, is launching the first edition of Rendez-Vous DOCS, a series of online pitching dedicated to documentaries. Aimed at 124 buyers ...