The historian Christine Duthoit recounts, in this issue, in support of new historical data, the time when Cambrai lived in subjection to the King of Spain (1595-1677): the links between the crown and the archbishops and notables of the city as well as the important military presence within the citadel, but also in the other barracks of the city.
Bicentenary of the death of Napoleon I, Philippe Raoult invites you to get to know Grenadier Lieutenant François Telliez de Carnières: his integration into the Lille National Guard in 1812, his transfer to the Grande Armée and his participation in major battles in Germany before his tragic death in Weissig in 1813.
Daniel Fertin, the well-known specialist in the history of Cambrésian cycling, reports on the astonishing sporting career of Bertrésien Jean-Baptise Louvet: his participation in the speed races at the Parc des Princes velodrome around 1900, but also in the first editions of Bordeaux-Paris or Paris-Roubaix …
Philippe Cattelin reports a news item that made the headlines of the press around the world around 1914: the Octavie Lecompte affair or the story of a poisoner from the town of Clary whose fate is not unlike that of the sad famous Marie Besnard, in the years 1950… Another forgotten destiny, that of Germain Leblond, pilot of airplane from the village of Bazuel.
Pierre Demaret recounts, with the help of unpublished reports, the career of this brave sergeant of the Army of the East who was mortally wounded in Macedonia, during an aerial combat, on July 27, 1916. The review ends with a study by Gérard Leducq and Jean-Loup Moniez on Major General Paul Moniez (1917-2013), native of Avesnes-les-Aubert, whose brilliant military career took him successively to Algeria, England, Indochina and Germany …
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