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14-642: Fère-en-Tardenois ( French pronunciation: [fɛʁ ɑ̃ taʁdənwa] , literally Fère in Tardenois ) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France . It is named for the Tardenois region. It was the birthplace of Camille Claudel (1864–1943), sculptor and graphic artist. The Château de Fère-en-Tardenois dates originally from 1206, with later important Renaissance alterations. The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial

28-549: Is Châlons-en-Champagne (formerly known as Châlons-sur-Marne). The subprefectures are Épernay , Reims , and Vitry-le-François . It had a population of 566,855 in 2019. The Champagne vineyards producing the eponymous sparkling wine are in Marne. The department is named after the Marne , which was called Matrona in Roman times. Marne is one of the original 83 departments created during

42-871: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tardenois Originally, the Tardenois was a pagus (subdivision) of the civitas (state) of the Suessiones . After the Gallic Wars (58–50 BC ), the Suessiones were subjected to the Remi , who were loyal allies of the Roman Empire . In the Middle Ages , it became a county ( comitatus ) under the Carolingians , subject to visits by missi dominici (lord's envoys). It

56-588: Is mentioned in 853 as the pagus tardinisus . The border between the dioceses of Soissons and Reims ran through it. In 858, King Charles the Bald appointed a certain Northmannus, possibly a former Viking , as count in the Tardenois. He was still count in 868, when he got into a conflict with the Bishop Hincmar of Laon that was settled by the king in his favour. Hincmar , archbishop of Reims, records around 870 that

70-463: Is one and a half miles east of Fère-en-Tardenois. It contains the graves of 6,012 American soldiers who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I including the poet, Joyce Kilmer and, until 1987, Eddie Slovik , a deserter and the first American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War . This Château-Thierry arrondissement geographical article

84-520: Is surrounded by the departments of Ardennes , Meuse , Haute-Marne , Aube , Seine-et-Marne , and Aisne . Geologically, it divides into two distinct parts; the Upper Cretaceous chalk plain in the east and the more wooded and hilly Eocene and Oligocene in the west. Rivers draining the department include the Marne , Vesle , Ardre and Somme-Soude. Numerous other rivers, such as the Grande and

98-613: The French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from the province of Champagne . Marne has a long association with the French Army . The training ground of the Camp Militaire de Mailly straddles the border with the département of Aube in the south while that of the Camp de Mourmelon occupies a large area north of Châlons-en-Champagne . The smaller Camp de Moronvilliers lies to

112-780: The Germans back behind Fère-en-Tardenois. This action took place during the Second Battle of the Marne and came to be known as the "Battle of Tardenois". Today, the Tardenois natural region lies partly in the department of Marne in the region of Grand Est and partly in Aisne in the region of Hauts-de-France . Since 1996, the municipalities of the Tardenois have been divided into two communautés de communes (municipal federations): that of Tardenois , which lies entirely in Aisne, and that of Ardre et Tardenois , which lies entirely in Marne. Likewise, there are two cantons named in part after

126-552: The Departmental Council is Christian Bruyen, elected in 2017. Reims , with its cathedral in which the kings of France were traditionally crowned , is a major attraction. Others include the bird reserve on the Lake Der-Chantecoq and the fishing lakes nearby. The Parc Naturel Régional de la Montagne de Reims is a major area of country recreation. In the west of the département there are many scenic routes as also are

140-595: The Petite Morin rise in the department but flow mainly in others. Conversely, the Aube joins the Seine in the department of Marne. The most populous commune in the department is Reims ; the prefecture Châlons-en-Champagne is the second-most populous. As of 2019, there are five communes with more than 10,000 inhabitants: The inhabitants of the department are called Marnais . Population development since 1801: The president of

154-482: The Tardenois was under a count named Bertram, a relative of his, who exercised the bannum and held placita . The Tardenois was at that time a typical Carolingian county. As the system of pagi , and the comital system based upon it, decayed, the borders of the ancient pagi were forgotten. Villages not once part of the Tardenois became regarded as within it and some that had belonged to it did no longer. The term came to refer to an imprecise geographical zone. It

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168-532: The east of Reims and the Camp Militaire de Suippes lies to the east of that. These are all located on the chalk grounds of the Champagne plateau, a feature comparable in geology but not size, with the British military training ground on Salisbury Plain . The Battles of the Marne , where the British and French fought against Germany during World War I , took place here. Marne is part of the region of Grand Est and

182-566: The region: the Canton of Fère-en-Tardenois and the Canton of Ville-en-Tardenois . There are also the ruins of a 13th-century castle known as the Château de Fère-en-Tardenois . Marne (department) Marne ( French pronunciation: [maʁn] ) is a department in the Grand Est region of France . It is named after the river Marne which flows through it. The prefecture (capital) of Marne

196-542: Was still regarded as a county in the late eleventh century, when it was part of the domains of Ralph IV (1038–74) and his son Simon (1074–77), counts of Valois . By the twelfth century, it was a part of the county of Champagne . During the First World War , the Tardenois was the site of intense fighting. During 22–26 July 1918, the Italian 2nd Corps , supported by two British divisions, launched an offensive that drove

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