Péronne, Somme (fra)

Péronne, Somme

Péronne, Somme ranks 3,794th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Voorburg, Nové Město na Moravě, and Itaguaí. Memorable people born in Péronne, Somme include Charles the Simple, Pierre Mac Orlan, and Fahid Ben Khalfallah. Memorable people who died in Péronne, Somme include Charles the Simple. Péronne, Somme has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers and the death place of many politicians. Péronne, Somme is located in France.

Péronne 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 Eorcenwald. 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 is located in the château. Read more on Wikipedia