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Marquise, Pas-de-Calais

Marquise () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France about northeast of Boulogne. The river Slack flows through the commune.

History

Part of the Flemish-speaking territory until 1346, Marquise became an English county under King Edward III after the battle of Crécy and the hexagonal bell-tower goes back to the English period. In 1420, in the suburbs of Marquise, at Leulinghen, the church of which was divided by the French-English border, King Henry V married Catherine of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France.

Marquise received national media attention in autumn 2006 when the local police retrieved a painting by Maurice Boitel, stolen forty years before and taken out of France.

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