Marquise () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of FranceINSEE commune file 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.Henry V by William Shakespeare
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.info.france3.fr/insolite/24771923-fr.php - 100k - 13 déc 2006
Population
Notable people Alphonse Pinart, explorer, was born there in 1852.
See also Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
References
External links
A history of the town The CWGC cemetery