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Jeanne d'Arc
Jeanne d'Arc
Detail of an Ingres' painting,
Louvre museum, Paris.

  

The draper industry getting from Flanders allowed to the communes of Noyon, Saint-Quentin, Amiens, Ham, Corbie and Abbeville to prosper.

Favoured living place of Carolingians and Capetians (especially king Philippe Auguste), Picardy became one of the battlefields during the Hundred Years war, with the famous battle of Crécy (1346). Jeanne d'Arc was convicted by the bishop of Beauvais.

Philippe of Beaumanoir wrote the customs of Beauvais which will be used as model to French customary law.