Tilloloy

Tilloloy is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography

Tilloloy is situated in the east of the department southeast of Amiens, on the N17 road. The border with the Oise department is less than away.

Population

Personalities

• Blaise Cendrars recounts in "La Main coupée" that the Foreign Legion squad he commanded in 1916 rested up in Tilloloy.

Places of interest

• The village church (shown in the lede image), which was subject of a painting by artist Maurice Denis.
• The seventeenth-century château of Tilloloy; extensively damaged in the First World War, subsequently restored.

See also

• Communes of the Somme department

References