Montreuil (Pas-de-Calais)
Montreuil ( officially ), or Montreuil- sur -Mer (not official ) (Dutch Monsterole ) is a municipality with 2233 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the Pas -de- Calais in the Nord-Pas -de- Calais region of France.
Montreuil is the capital of the Canton of Montreuil and the arrondissement of Montreuil. The place is situated on a mountain cone, which is circled by the Canche.
History
Twinning
- Rheinberg, Germany
Born in Montreuil
- Bertha of Holland (c. 1055, † 1094 ), by her marriage to the French King Philip I of 1071 or 1072-1092 Queen of France
- Denis Lambin (1520-1572), humanist, philologist and scholar
- Adrian Le Roy (* 1520, † 1598 ), French lutenist, composer and music publisher
- Jean -Claude Andruet (* 1942), rally driver
Remarkable
- Montreuil is one of the venues of the novel " Les Miserables " by Victor Hugo.