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Arras is Pas-de-Calais' third most populous town after Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer. The town counted 43,693 residents in 2012, with the Arras metropolitan area having a population of 124,200. [8] Arras is located 182 kilometres (113 miles) north of Paris and can be reached in 2 hours by car and in 50 minutes by TGV.
It is the name of a ridge, basilica, and French national cemetery northwest of Arras at the village of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire. The high point of the hump-backed ridge stands 165 metres high and – with Vimy Ridge – utterly dominates the otherwise flat Douai plain and the town of Arras.
The Battle of Vimy Ridge was part of the Battle of Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais department of France, during the First World War.The main combatants were the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in the First Army, against three divisions of the German 6th Army.
Tapestry should be distinguished from the different technique of embroidery, [4] although large pieces of embroidery with images are sometimes loosely called "tapestry", [5] as with the famous Bayeux Tapestry, which is in fact embroidered. [6] From the Middle Ages on European tapestries could be very large, with images containing dozens of ...
By the time the operation in Cambrai had finished, the first German units had reached the English Channel, but the British counter-attacked just west of Arras on 21 May, following on from the counter-attack of the day before (Battle of Arras). The Totenkopf division suffered casualties of just under 100 men in repelling the assault. [10]
Jacques Bourboulon (born 8 December 1946) [1] is a French photographer, specializing in nude photography.In 1967 he started as a fashion photographer, publishing in Vogue and working for the fashion designers Dior, Féraud, and Carven. [1]
At Arras the Canadians were to capture Vimy Ridge, dominating the Douai Plain to the east, advance towards Cambrai and divert German reserves from the French front. [4] The British effort was an assault on a relatively broad front between Vimy in the north-west and Bullecourt to the south-east.
Saulaie à Sainte Catherine, près d'Arras, Camille Corot, (vers 1855) La Bénédiction des blés en Artois, Jules Breton, oil on canvas (1857) Près d’Arras, les bûcheronnes, Camille Corot, oil on canvas (1871–1872) Un Mousquetaire, Jan van Beers, oil on canvas (1874) Hélène et Pâris, Antoine-Jean Gros, oil on canvas (early 19th century)