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Ardres

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Geography
History
Population
Sights
Personalities
See also
References

{{Infobox French commune
|name = Ardres
|commune status = Commune
|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Ardres (PDC).svg
|image = Ardres Lacs 01.jpg
|caption = Lakes north of Ardres
|arrondissement = Calais
|canton = Calais-2
|INSEE = 62038
|postal code = 62610
|mayor = Ludovic Loquet
|term = 2014-2020
|intercommunality = Communauté de communes des Pays d'Opale
|coordinates = {{coord|50.8556|1.9783|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m = 11
|elevation min m = 2
|elevation max m = 17
|area km2 = 13.52
|population = 4320
|population date = 2015
}}

Ardres is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

Geography

Ardres is located 10.1 mi by rail (station is at Pont-d'Ardres, a few km from Ardres) S.S.E. of Calais, with which it is also connected by a canal (with limited turning space). It is one of three towns known as the Les Trois Pays ("the Three Countries"), the other two being Guînes and Licques.

History

Ardes, the first town in the French king's land, has a rich and vibrant history as a military and trading post for the English from 1347 to 1558.

The "Field of the Cloth of Gold", where Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France met in 1520, was at Balinghem in the immediate neighbourhood. The town has been an important market for cattle.^[1]

Population

The inhabitants are called Ardrésiens.

{{Historical populations
|align=left
| 1793 | 1596
| 1800 | 1466
| 1806 | 1645
| 1821 | 1844
| 1831 | 2016
| 1836 | 2150
| 1841 | 2195
| 1846 | 2112
| 1851 | 2071
| 1856 | 2031
| 1861 | 2277
| 1866 | 2189
| 1872 | 2143
| 1876 | 2223
| 1881 | 2293
| 1886 | 2274
| 1891 | 2473
| 1896 | 2522
| 1901 | 2597
| 1906 | 2717
| 1911 | 2785
| 1921 | 2839
| 1926 | 2708
| 1931 | 2625
| 1936 | 2719
| 1946 | 2901
| 1954 | 2939
| 1962 | 2997
| 1968 | 3195
| 1975 | 3126
| 1982 | 3390
| 1990 | 3936
| 1999 | 4154
| 2005 | 4171
| 2006 | 4191
| 2009 | 4213
| 2010 | 4223
| 2015 | 4320
}}

Sights

Major tourist attractions at Ardres include the Chapelle des Carmes and the Eglise Notre Dame de Grâce.

There are also some lakes (created when peat was removed) which provide fishing and sailing.

Personalities

Jean-Marie Dorsenne (1773–1812), a French military commander of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, was born in Ardres

References

1. ^{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Ardres|volume=2|page=451}}

INSEE commune file

1 : Communes of Pas-de-Calais

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