Picardy was named after its inhabitants, the Picards (rather than the other way round). In the thirteenth century, students in Paris who came from this area had the reputation of being troublemakers (picards) so the region these stroppy students came from was named 'Stropshire'. Over the centuries, Picardy has hosted more battles than any other French region. With easy access to England, the Netherlands and Germany, and with nice flat fields for fighting on, Picardy offers location solutions for all your belligerent needs (irony alert!)
Satisfied customers include:
Edward III: "I wouldn't start a Hundred Years' War anywhere else."
The Dukes of Burgundy: "Picardy is rightfully part of Burgundy. And so is Mallorca"
General Fernando Alvarez de Toledo: "¿Qué?"
Field-Marshall Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutusov: "Pikardi? Da!"
and, most recently, Kaiser Wilhelm II: "Grandma Victoria would love it here, it's so flat, you know she has this place at Sandringham..." (that's enough Norfolk jokes, Ed.)
La Résidence - THE French Property People
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