Beyond the
city centre
The vestiges of
Saint-Paul church
Highly romantic, we know nothing about this
parish except that it was rebuilt in the 16th
century and destroyed during the French
Revolution.
It was given back to worship
from 1802 to 1850 and...
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Beyond the
city centre
The vestiges of
Saint-Paul church
Highly romantic, we know nothing about this
parish except that it was rebuilt in the 16th
century and destroyed during the French
Revolution.
It was given back to worship
from 1802 to 1850 and started to fall in ruins
in 1934.
The Chaussée d’Hocquet at the crossroads
and recessed to your left.
Factory of the Rames In the middle of the 17th century, Colbert,
minister of Louis XVI, invited Josse
van Robais, a Dutch industrialist from
Middelbourg, to set up his looms in
Abbeville in 1665.
In this city, there had
been an ancient industrial tradition of sheets
manufacturing and thus, skilled labour was
available.
The Chaussée d’Hocquet, behind
the church on the right.
Pigeon loft of
the Rames
The Bouvaque park The etymology of that name is said to come from
the union of the words boeuf (ox - in English) and
vache (cow - in English) which is pronounced
vaque [vaek] in Picard.
The inhabitants used to
have their cows graze in the
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