Hazebrouck
Sign in to saveHazebrouck (; , ; ) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France. It was a small market town in Flanders until it became an important railway junction in the 1860s. West Flemish was the usual language until 1880, when French was taught at school by mandate of the French government in an effort to "Frenchify" the people of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and to extinguish their Flemish roots. The development of the railways linked Hazebrouck to Lille to Calais and Dunkirk.
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Hazebrouck is a commune in the Nord department of northern France that grew from a small Flemish market town into an important railway junction in the 1860s. The town's development was shaped by its railroad connections to major cities like Lille, Calais, and Dunkirk, and by French government efforts to replace the local West Flemish language with French starting in 1880.
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13 sectionsContents
- History
- World War I: Fourth Battle of Ypres and Hazebrouck
- Heraldry
- Population
- Politics
- Presidential Elections 2nd Round
- Town twinning
- College Saint-Jacques private chapel
- Transportation
- See also
- References
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Hazebrouck (; , ; ) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France. It was a small market town in Flanders until it became an important railway junction in the 1860s. West Flemish was the usual language until 1880, when French was taught at school by mandate of the French government in an effort to "Frenchify" the people of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and to extinguish their Flemish roots. The development of the railways linked Hazebrouck to Lille to Calais and Dunkirk.
==History== The incorporation into France of what had previously been a Flemish town was ratified in the 1678 Treaties of Nijmegen.