The entire Nord Pas-de-Calais region is now mercifully free from innuendo. Composer Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911) was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer and died of exhaustion after years of playing on his organ. Also born in Boulogne were the actor Benoît-Constant Coquelin (1841-1909) who was famous for his outstanding Hamlet, and engineer Frédéric Sauvage (1786-1857) inventor of the first propellor, which had an enormous shaft. The city of Douai, meanwhile was the birthplace both of sculptor Jean Boulogne (1529-1608) who was very skilled with his tool, and also of politician Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734-1802) who once stood as an independent but lost his deposit.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
La Résidence - THE French Property People
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