Saint-Souplet
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | North | |
| Arrondissement | Cambrai | |
| Canton | Le Cateau-Cambrésis | |
| Community association | Caudrésis et Catésis | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 3 ' N , 3 ° 32' E | |
| height | 101-161 m | |
| surface | 12.66 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,230 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 97 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 59360 | |
| INSEE code | 59545 | |
 The city of Saint-Souplet |
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Saint-Souplet is a French commune with 1,230 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Cambrai and the canton of Le Cateau-Cambrésis . The place is six kilometers from Le Cateau-Cambrésis , 30 kilometers southeast of Cambrai and 86 kilometers from Lille . The city lies on the Selle River .
history
Saint-Souplet owes its name to Sulpicius II , Archbishop of Bourges († 647). In 1272 Enguerrand de Coucy sold Saint-Souplet to Margaret II , Countess of Flanders . 1336 was the place of King Philip VI. acquired. In the Treaty of Conflans (October 5, 1465) King Louis XI. the places on the Somme , including Saint-Souplet, to Count Charles de Charolais, later Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy . After the death of Duke Charles (1477), Saint-Souplet returned to the royal family, King Louis XII. gave it to the Lord of Gruuthuse, a little later the place was owned by Admiral Adolf von Burgund († 1540), then his son Maximilian († 1558). Through Maximilian's sister Antoinette, Saint-Souplet came to the Anneux family, who still owned the place in 1789. Their coat of arms formed today's municipal coat of arms. During the First World War , there were several skirmishes for Saint-Souplet as part of the Battle of the Somme . On May 19, 1916, the German 35th Engineer Regiment carried out a gas attack here. In 1918 the place was captured by the US Army . In Saint-Souplet, the St Souplet British Cemetery, maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission , commemorates the fallen Allied soldiers.
Incorporations
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In 1973 the neighboring town of Escaufourt was incorporated, until then an enclave of the Aisne department in the North department.
Population development
- 1962: 1,646
- 1968: 1,684
- 1975: 1.622
- 1982: 1,482
- 1990: 1,333
- 1999: 1.311
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 538-539.
Web links
- Monuments historiques (objects) in Saint-Souplet in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture