Falvy is a commune

Communes of France

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 in the Somme

Somme

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 department in Picardie

Picardie

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 in northern France

France

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Geography

Falvy is situated on the D103 road, on the banks of the river Somme, some 19 miles (31 km) west of Saint Quentin

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History

Falvy originated as a Gaulish village. Known by different names over the centuries :Fala, Falvicum in 1135, Phalevi in 1146, then Fallevy or Falevi sur Somme and finally Falvy
Principle events :

• In the 12th century, Raoul I de Nesle, seigneur
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   of both Nesle and Falvy, gave the windmill of Falvy-sur-Somme to the church at Saint-Quentin.
• 1629 and Louis XIII dismantles the château , a medieval fortress
• On 22 November 1916, fighter-ace-pilot Georges Guynemer
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   claimed his 23rd victim at Falvy.
• On the 9th August 1918, the bridge at Falvy was attacked by Lieutenant James Alfred Keating , an American volunteer in the RFC
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  . He won the Distinguished Flying Cross
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Population

Places of interest

• The church of Saint Benoite has dimensions that are relative to a time when the population was larger. Its origin was as a chapel to the chateau. It was victim of revolutionary vandalism in 1792, losing much of its embellishment and harmony by such destruction.
• The lake

External links

• Falvy on the Quid website