Ambricourt
Encyclopedia
Ambricourt is a commune
in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France
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The commune is the setting of Georges Bernanos
's novel Journal d'un curé de campagne 1936 (The Diary of A Country Priest).
, on the D71 E4 road.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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The commune is the setting of Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to what he identified as defeatism leading to France's defeat in 1940.-Biography:Bernanos was born at Paris, into a family of...
's novel Journal d'un curé de campagne 1936 (The Diary of A Country Priest).
Geography
A small village situated some 15 miles(24 km) east of Montreuil-sur-MerMontreuil-sur-Mer
Montreuil or Montreuil-sur-Mer is a sub-prefecture in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is located on the Canche river, not far from Étaples...
, on the D71 E4 road.