Péronne

Located on a hill, dominating the Somme and its ponds, Péronne was, as the time merovingienne, a frightening fortified town. In IX century, ramparts are built. It in remainder more today that the “Door of Brittany”, single vestige of the old fortress. King Charles the Simple one dies there captive, into 929, in a keep. The city profits from communal institutions as of before 1151. In XII century, Philippe-Auguste makes build the turns of the castle. Surrounded by ditches, a harrow defends of the entry.

• In 1468, at the time of the interview of Fibula, Charles the Bold one extorts a treaty from captive Louis XI retained with the castle;
• In 1536, Charles Quint besieges the city, without success. Pitch Catherine, known as “Marie Fouré” defends the city, precipitating a Spaniard the top of a rampart;

Few cities were as much frays with the French history, few cities were also often devastated. Set fire to, plundered during the invasions Normans, seriously damaged at the time of the seat of the Spaniards, devastated by the Germans in 1870, completely destroyed in 1917, bombarded and set fire to in May 1940 by the German aviation, Péronne carries in its blazon two Military Crosses and that of the Legion of the honor.

• The Church Saint-Jean-Baptist: Destroyed almost completely between 1914 and 1918, then very partially in 1944, its frontage of Gothic style blazing remained upright. It also conceals a mural of the XVII century: "La bonne mort". Fibula the catholic had 7 parishes before the Revolution.
• In front of the church draws up the statue of Marie Fouré, heroin péronnaise which stigmatizes resistance with Péronnais face the troops of Charles Quint at the time of the seat of 1536.

The Museum Alfred Danicourt, founded in the city hall in 1877, is the only museum of the Somme entirely to be plundered and destroyed by the German troops between 1916 and 1918. It lost 98% of its collections. Only some archaeological treasures were saved by the conservative who buried them at the entry of the Germans in the city in 1914. These treasures will be again withdrawn from " the iinterest" German in 1941. Forgotten by the first rebuilding, the museum does not find its place in the city hall; after 1955 and the second rebuilding of the building.

Its founder, the former mayor Charles Alfred Danicourt, had made of this museum a cultural headlight for the Sum before 1900. There is still found today one of the most beautiful collections in the world of Gallic currencies, the ancient goldsmithery, of funerary furniture mérovingien, a panorama of the regional production of flint during Prehistory, or some good examples of the Picardy painting of XIX - XX centuries.