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Péronne is a town located in the Somme department in northern France. It is historically significant as the site of major World War I battles and now hosts the Historial de la Grande Guerre, a museum dedicated to preserving the history of that conflict.
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- Locality
- Péronne
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Population
- 9,011
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Péronne ( French pronunciation: [peʁɔn]) is a commune of the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is the former site of the Péronne monastery, founded by the Anglo-Saxon St Erkenwald. Its site became the resting place for St. Fursa, celebrated by the famous English historian Bede. The monastery was popular with Irish monks, among them Cellanus, whose letters to Aldhelm the Bishop of Sherborne survive. So renowned was Péronne for Irish monks that the monastery became known as Perrona Scottorum. The monastery was destroyed in a Viking raid in 880. It is close to where the 1916, first 1918 and second 1918 Battles of the Somme took place during the First World War. The Museum of the Great War (known in French as the Historial de la Grande Guerre) is located in the château.
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