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Extract from the Douai Travel Guides:
Right at the heart of mining country, 35km south of Lille, and badly damaged in both world wars,
DOUAI
is a surprisingly attractive and lively town, its streets of eighteenth-century houses cut through by both river and canal. Once a haven for English Catholics fleeing Protestant oppression in Tudor England, Douai later became the seat of Flemish local government under Louis XIV, an aristocratic past evoked in the novels of Balzac.
Centre of activity is the
place d'Armes
, overlooked by the massive Gothic belfry of the
Htel de Ville
on rue de la Mairie, popularized by Victor Hugo...
read the whole Douai Travel Guides...
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