Sedan
| Base data | |
|---|---|
| state: | France |
| Département: | Champagne Ardenne |
| district: | Arrondissement de Sedan |
| surface: | 16.28 km ² |
| inhabitants: | 20.584 (1999) |
| population density: | 1,262 Einwohner/km ² |
| height: | 157 m and. NN |
| postal zip codes: | 08200 |
| preselections: | Frankreich-08409 |
| geographical situation: | Coordinates: 49° 42 ' 00 " N,4° 56 ' 40 " O 49° 42 ' 00 " N, 4° 56 ' 40 " O |
| Website: | www.sedan.fr |
| politics | |
| mayor: | Dominique Billaudelle |
Sedan is a city in France, Unterpräfektur in the Département Ardennes. The city lies in the proximity of the Belgian ones and the of Luxembourg border. It hasapproximately 20,100 inhabitants.
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history
during the battle of Sedan in the French-German war became the French emperor Napoleon III. to 2. September 1870 with 100.000 soldiers with Sedan imprisoned taken; Napoleon was brought as a prisoner into the lock William height in Kassel (therefore it thosePhrase „off to Kassel “). In Germany this event as Sedanstag until 1918 as holiday one thought.
During the Second World War the German army the French magic emergency line went around, by setting only Belgium run over and then in Sedan over the Maas.
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sonsand daughters of the city
- Charles building DIN, French admiral
- Frédéric Maurice de La route d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon, French general
- Yves Congar, cardinal of the Roman-catholic church
- Erard de la Marck, prince bishop von Lüttich and Erzbischof von Valencia
- Michel Fourniret, series murderer
- Robert III.of the Mark, marshal of France
- Yannick Noah, former French professional tennis player
- Robert IV. of the Mark, duke of Bouillon, Mr. von Sedan
- Henri de La route d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, French army leader and marshal of France
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