Longpré-les-Corps-Saints
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World War I memorial in churchyard
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 Longpré-les-Corps-Saints
Location within Hauts-de-France region
Longpré-les-Corps-Saints
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| Coordinates: 50°01′00″N 1°59′00″E / 50.0167°N 1.9833°ECoordinates: 50°01′00″N 1°59′00″E / 50.0167°N 1.9833°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Somme |
| Arrondissement | Abbeville |
| Canton | Gamaches |
| Intercommunality | CA Baie de Somme |
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| • Mayor (2001–2008) | Alain Drouvin |
| Area1 | 8.06 km2 (3.11 sq mi) |
| Population (2006)2 | 1,691 |
| • Density | 210/km2 (540/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 80488 /80510 |
| Elevation | 6–98 m (20–322 ft) (avg. 22 m or 72 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Longpré-les-Corps-Saints is a commune in Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Situated on the D3 and D216 junction and on the banks of the Somme River, surrounded by peat fen, some 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Abbeville. The railway from Paris to Boulogne-sur-Mer has a station here.
An earlier local railway, once carried freight and some passengers. It opened in 1872 and closed in 1993.
Les Corps Saints is named after the thousands of supposedly holy relics (the bones of saints, pieces of the ‘true cross’ etc.) brought back by Crusaders from the Holy Land. The region was quite wealthy, thanks to the exploitation of the peat, found here in abundance.
A collegial church was established here, and by the 13th century had attrached the attention of Popes, notably Innocent III and Gregory IX who granted it their protection. It was called at that time "Longpré -les-Corps-Saints". The relics would be promenaded though the streets, a practise which still goes on nowadays.
Longpré was burnt down twice by the English during the Hundred Years War, the first time just before the Battle of Crécy, the second time before the Battle of Agincourt.
Pope Eugene IV had the badly damaged church rebuilt in 1437.
During the Wars of Religion, to avoid the Huguenots, the inhabitants of Longpré ran way. The clergy of the collegial church, the canons, took refuge at Saint-Vulfran’s abbey in Abbeville. Afterwards, the collegial chapter was restored, but it was never as great as in its earlier days. By the time of the French Revolution, there were only 10 canons.
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