Editing Arras (section)

==Notable people==
Arras was one of the centres of [[Trouvère|trouvère poetry]], and trouvères from Arras include:
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*[[Adam de la Halle]] (c. 1240–1287)
*[[Andrieu Contredit d'Arras]] (c. 1200–1248)
*[[Audefroi le Bastart]] (''fl. c.'' 1200–1230)
*[[Dame Margot (trouvère)|Dame Margot]]
*[[Dame Maroie]]
*[[Eberhard of Béthune]] ( ? - 1212), grammarian
*[[Gaidifer d'Avion]]
*[[Guillaume le Vinier]] (c. 1190–1245)
*[[Jaques le Vinier]]
*[[Jehan Bretel]] (c. 1200–1272)
*[[Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras]] (''fl. c.'' 1240–70)
*[[Jehan Erart]] († c. 1259)
*[[Mahieu de Gant]]
*[[Moniot d'Arras]] (''fl.'' 1213–1239)
*[[Robert de Castel]]
*[[Robert de la Piere]]
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Arras was the birthplace of:
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*[[Matthias of Arras]] (c. 1290–1352), architect
*[[Antoine de Févin]] (c. 1470–1511/12), composer
*[[Charles de l'Écluse]] (1526–1609), doctor and pioneering botanist
*[[Philippe Rogier]] (c. 1561–1596), composer
*[[Eustachius De Lannoy]] (1715–1777), general of [[Travancore]] army
*[[Maximilien de Robespierre]] (1758–1794), revolutionary leader
*[[Charlotte de Robespierre]] (1760–1834), memoirist
*[[Augustin de Robespierre]] (1763–1794), revolutionary
*[[Joseph Le Bon]] (1765–1795), politician
*[[Eugène François Vidocq]] (1775–1857), one of the first modern private investigators
*[[Alexandre Georges]] (1850–1938), composer and organist
*[[Lucien Gaudin]] (1886–1934), fencing champion
*[[Gabriel Hanot]] (1889–1968), journalist
*[[Violette Leduc]] (1907–1972), author
*[[Jean-Christophe Novelli]] (born 1961), chef and restaurateur
*[[Philippe Hermann]] (born 1962), writer
*[[Xavier Dablemont]] (born 1975), footballer
*[[Benoît Assou-Ekotto]] (born 1984), footballer
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