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| Ants | |
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| Information | |
| Country |  France |
|---|---|
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Area | 22,98 km² |
| Population | 11 714 hab. () |
| Density | 509,75 inhab./km² |
| Postal code | 59610 |
| Spindle | UTC 01:00, UTC 02:00 |
| Location | |
 50 ° 1 ′ 6 ″ N 4 ° 2 ′ 49 ″ E | |
| Official site | |
Ants is a city of North of the France close to the border Belgian.
Understand
The town has remained famous for the shooting of May 1, 1891, the first French celebration of International Workers' Day, by which the troops put an end to the demonstration in blood. It kills nine, including eight demonstrators under the age of 21, including a young worker who will remain as a symbol, Maria Blondeau, and 35 injured.
To go
By car
By train
By plane
- Lesquin or Charleroi airports
Circulate
To see
THE'Avesnois Ecomuseum covers two museums, one in Fourmies, the textile and social life museum, the other in Trélon, the glass workshop-museum.
- 1 Place Maria Blondeau - 59610 Fourmies,
33 3 27 60 66 11, e-mail : [email protected] – A museum installed in a former spinning mill, the Prouvost-Masurel spinning mill, in a place called “Below the mills”, which operated from 1874 to 1978. The museum has two sections, one on the textile industry (from the raw wool from sheep to the finished product, to its maintenance) and the other on different aspects of the social life of the region at XIXe century.
Do
To buy
Eat
Have a drink / Go out
Housing
Around
- 2 Glass workshop-museum 12 Rue Clavon Collignon - 59132 Trélon, 33 3 27 60 66 11, e-mail : [email protected] – A workshop-museum which perpetuates an activity of blowing and glassworking in the technical infrastructures of the XIXe century, including two pot ovens, rare witnesses of this industrial activity.
