The Compagnie des mines de Béthune, sometimes called the sometimes called the Compagnie de Grenay after the name of the concession, was a French coal mining...
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Charles Ignace Plichon (category Politicians from Hauts-de-France)
fortunate marriage through which he became President of the Compagnie des mines de Béthune. He was briefly Minister of Public Works in 1870. Ignace Plichon...
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Work on Mine 8 at Auchy-les-Mines began by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune in July 1891, and the mine was opened in November 1893. Shaft 8bis was started...
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the Mines de Béthune to extend their railway network to Béthune and Lille. A limited company named the Compagnie du Chemin de fer de Lille à Béthune et...
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50.40; 3.50 The Compagnie des mines d'Anzin (Anzin Mining Company) was a large French mining company in the coal basin of Nord-Pas-de-Calais in northern...
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Sains-en-Gohelle (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
A26 autoroute passes through the town. Excavation of Mine 10 by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune started in July 1900 at Sains-en-Gohelle, and eventually...
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Loos-en-Gohelle (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
resulted in a very rapid increase of population. Coal was mined here by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune from 1855 until 1946, and by its nationalized successor...
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Vermelles (redirect from Vermelles, Pas-de-Calais)
Vermelles was the second extraction site used by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune. Excavation of Mine 3 in Vermelles began in January 1857, reaching a rugged...
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Jean Plichon (category Politicians from Hauts-de-France)
administrator of the Compagnie des mines de Béthune. He became one of the leading industrialists of northern France, president of the Béthune, Blanzy and Sainte-Thérèse...
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In 1924 his uncle was president of the Compagnie des mines de Béthune and Deputy for Nord. The Bethune mines had become a fief of the Plichons, since...
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