Commune of Audresselles
Country	France
Région	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Département	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Marquise
Intercommunality	Terre des deux caps
Mayor Term of office	Roger Tourret 2001-2008
Land area¹	5.72 km²
Population² (1999)	685
Population density ()	119.7 pers./km²
Longitude	01°35'41" E
Latitude	50°49'28" N
Altitude	average: 30 m minimum: 0 m maximum: 114 m
INSEE Code	62056
Postal code	62164
1 French Land Register data, which exclude lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers. 2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common... Capital Lille Area 12,414 km² Regional President Daniel Percheron ( PS) (since 2001) Population   - 2004 estimate   - 1999 census   - Density (Ranked 4th) 4,026,000 3,996,588 324/km² (2004) Arrondissements 13 Cantons 156 Communes 1,546 Départements Nord Pas-de-Calais The administrative region of Nord-Pas-de... Template:France divisions levels, Junkyard Willie The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ... Pas-de-Calais is a département in northern France named after the strait which it borders. ... The 100 French départements are divided into 342 arrondissements. ... The arrondissement of Boulogne-sur-Mer is an arrondissement of France, located in the Pas-de-Calais département, of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais région. ... The canton is an administrative division of France. ... The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, meaning a gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will a Leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Map of Earth showing lines of longitude, which appear curved and vertical in this projection, but are actually halves of great circles Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... Latitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... INSEE is the French abbreviation for the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (French: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques). ... A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ... Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing numerous ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits and services. ...

Audresselles is a seaside French village and commune, south of Cape Gris Nez, in the Pas-de-Calais département, Nord-Pas-de-Calais région. The commune covers about 2000 acres of cultivated lands. Its original name was Oderzell. The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, meaning a gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Cap Gris Nez is a cape on the Côte dOpale, in the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France. ... Pas-de-Calais is a département in northern France named after the strait which it borders. ... Template:France divisions levels, Junkyard Willie The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ... Capital Lille Area 12,414 km² Regional President Daniel Percheron ( PS) (since 2001) Population   - 2004 estimate   - 1999 census   - Density (Ranked 4th) 4,026,000 3,996,588 324/km² (2004) Arrondissements 13 Cantons 156 Communes 1,546 Départements Nord Pas-de-Calais The administrative region of Nord-Pas-de... France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common...

City council

Roger Tourret, mayor since 1974,

Deputy mayors : Jean Ruano-Camaro, Paul Ellart, Dominique Vanhersecke,

Mayor's secretarial assistants: Dorothée Pouilly, Nathalie Lemaître.

History

Between 1558, English occupation end, and the middle of the 17th century, Audresselles seigneury comprised Haringzelle hamlet too, in the place where nowadays stands a forest hiding the former german batteries of Audinghen. This seigneury was owned by Acary family, which gave some admirals to the French fleet and from whom are descended most of the borough fishermen. Events January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of England July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. ...

Old fishers village, Audresselles kept its characteristics features: its long houses with a colored strip along the lower part of the walls, in the village center, and somme villas of the "Belle Époque" in front of the English Channel. In Audresselles still live a professionnal fishermen family and one of them uses the village sand beach to strand its ship. The traditionnal flobarts, little trunkated drakkars, are still used by the holydays yachtsmen. La Belle Époque, or beautiful era, was a period in Frances history that began during the late 19th century and lasted until World War I. Occurring at the midpoint of the Third Republic, the Belle Époque was considered a golden time of beauty, innovation, and peace between France and... Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: La Manche, IPA: , the sleeve), also for some time known in England as the British Sea, is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the... The Oseberg longship (Viking Ship Museum, Norway) Longships, langskip or drakkar were boats used by the Scandinavians and Saxons for mostly military purposes. ...

Monuments

• Church Saint John the Baptist, fortified, 12th century, with tree large canvas of the Second Empire painted in the catholic workhalls of father Jacques Paul Migne in the style of Delacroix and a little 18th century reredos.
• Saint-John farm (beginning of the 17th century);
• The coaching inn, rue Édouard Quénu (18th century).

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Fauna

on the beach and in the dunes:

• Birds:

Sea gulls, cormorants, jackdaws, great white divers, loons, mallards, bitterns, sandpipers, snipes, orns, oyster catchers, herons, curlews, egrets, guillemots,peregrine falcon, swans, geese and barnacle geese; Genera Pagophila Larus Rissa Creagus Xema Rhodostethia Gulls are seabirds in the family Laridae and subfamily Lari. ... Genera Nannopterum Phalacrocorax Leucocarbo The Phalacrocoracidae family of birds is represented by over thirty species of cormorants and shags. ... Jackdaws is a World War II spy thriller written by British novelist Ken Follett. ... 1. ... Species Gavia stellata Gavia arctica Gavia pacifica Gavia immer Gavia adamsii For other meanings of diver, also see diving. ... † see also: Heron The bitterns are members of the heron family Ardeidae. ... Families Charadridae Jacanidae Rostratulidae Ibidorhynchidae Recurvirostridae Haematopodidae Scolopacidae Dromadidae Burhinidae Glareolidae Thinocoridae Waders, called Shorebirds in North America (where wader is used to refer to long-legged wading birds such as storks and herons), are members of the order Charadriiformes, excluding the more marine web-footed seabird groups. ... Snipes (Diminutive for Snipers) is a text-mode networked computer game that was created in 1983 by SuperSet software. ... Heron (disambiguation) Genera Ardea Zebrilus Philherodias Tigrisoma Ardeola Bubulcus Egretta Agamia Butorides Tigriornis Tigrisoma Gorsachius Syrigma Zonerodius Nycticorax see also: Bittern Herons are medium to large long-legged, long-necked wading birds of the family Ardeidae, which also includes the egrets and bitterns. ... The curlews are a group of eight wader species, characterised by a long slender downcurved bill and mainly brown plumage with little seasonal change. ... Genera Egretta Ardea An egret is any of several herons, most of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. ... Genera Alle Uria Alca Pinguinus Cepphus Brachyramphus Synthliboramphus Ptychoramphus Cyclorrhynchus Aethia Cerorhinca Fratercula Auks are birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. ... Binomial name Falco peregrinus Tunstall, 1771 The Peregrine Falcon or, in North America, Duck Hawk (Falco peregrinus) is a medium-sized falcon about the size of a large crow: 38-53 cm (15 to 21 inches) long. ... Swans can refer to: Swan, the bird. ... Other uses: Goose (disambiguation) Genera Anser Branta Chen Cereopsis † see also: Swan, Duck Anatidae Goose (plural geese) is the general English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae. ... Orders Ascothoracica Acrothoracica Thoracica Rhizocephala A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea and is hence distantly related to crabs and lobsters. ...

• Mammals:

Seals, killer whales (sometimes), globicephaluses, dolphins and porpoises. Seal or SEAL can refer to: Seal, a device used to produce an official stamp as a symbol of authority. ... Binomial name Orcinus orca Linnaeus, 1758 Orca range (in blue) The Orca (Orcinus orca), also known as the Killer Whale or Grampus, is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. ... This article is about the dolphin mammal. ... Genera Neophocaena Phocoena - Harbor porpoises Phocoenoides - Dalls porpoises The porpoises are small cetaceans of the family Phocoenidae; they are related to whales and dolphins. ...

Flora

resisting to the salted south-western wind:

• Lyciet, privet, spindle-tree, eleagnus, speedwell, marram grass and armeria maritima.

Species About 50 species, including: Ligustrum lucidum - Chinese or Glossy Privet Ligustrum ovalifolium - Japanese Privet Ligustrum sinense - Chinese Privet Ligustrum vulgare - Common Privet Privet was originally the name for the European semi-evergreen shrub Ligustrum vulgare, and later also for the more reliably evergreen Ligustrum ovalifolium (Japanese privet), used extensively... Species The spindles, genus Euonymus, comprise about 170-180 species of deciduous and evergreen shrubs and small trees. ... Species See text Elaeagnus (Silverberry or Oleaster) is a genus of about 50-70 species of flowering plants in the Elaeagnaceae. ... Speedwell may refer to Speedwell Island Speedwell Cavern A ship named Speedwell any plant of the Veronica genus This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Marram grass - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Binomial name Armeria maritima (Mill. ...

Personalities

• Robert Beauvais, writer and journalist,
• Albert Besson, bactériologist,
• Maurice Boitel, painter,
• Catherine Destivelle, alpinist,
• Edmond Marin La Meslée, aviator
• Jean Quenu, surgeon.