Emperor, arrived at Valenciennes, and – even when Henry II of France allied with him against the Protestants in 1552 – Valenciennes became (c. 1560) an...
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Valenciennes Football Club (French pronunciation: [valɑ̃sjɛn] ; commonly known as Valenciennes, VA or VAFC) is a French professional football club based...
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Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794 – 13 April 1865) was a French zoologist. Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. His study...
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Herman de Valenciennes, 12th-century French poet, was born at Valenciennes. His father and mother, Robert and Herembourg, belonged to Hainaut, and gave...
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Valenciennes lace is a type of bobbin lace which originated in Valenciennes, in the Nord département of France, and flourished from about 1705 to 1780...
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Look up Valenciennes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Valenciennes can mean: Valenciennes, a town and commune on the Scheldt river in the Nord département...
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be count of the Valenciennes area. Vanderkindere speculated in 1902 (Vol. 2 p. 72) that Emperor Otto I created the March of Valenciennes in the late 940s/early...
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Battle of Valenciennes may refer to: Battle of Valenciennes (1656), fought on 16 July that year during the Franco-Spanish War, resulting in a Spanish...
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effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Valenciennes. It consists of the following communes: Saint-Saulve Valenciennes "Décret n° 2014-167 du 17 février 2014...
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The organ of Valenciennes, named after the French naturalist Achille Valenciennes, is one of two secondary sexual organs of the female of the genus Nautilus...
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