Editing Haute-Marne (section)

==Tourism==
The Haute-Marne department is not a famous department but this peaceful territory has numerous interesting places to visit. Indeed, the department was one of the most powerful in French history thanks to metallurgy economy and was a land of confrontations along history.

Thus, among other examples, the [[French Wars of Religion]] (from 1562 to 1598) began with the [[Massacre of Vassy]] in the north of the Haute-Marne department. Following this event, open military conflicts across France Kingdom began. The [[Edict of Nantes]] is the consequence of this period.

The fortified town of [[Langres]], famous for [[Denis Diderot]] author of the [[Encyclopédie]], the [[Renaissance]] castle of [[Joinville, Haute-Marne|Joinville]], the [[Lake Der-Chantecoq]] (one of the biggest artificial lake in Europe), the [[Chateau de Cirey]] where [[Voltaire]] lived for a while with [[Émilie du Châtelet]] and the village of [[Colombey-les-Deux-Églises]] where [[Charles De Gaulle]] lived until his death are all major attractions.

Haute-Marne is also well known for some famous French great men and women as:
*[[Louise Michel]]
*[[Camille Flammarion]] and his brother Ernest Flammarion
*[[Goncourt brothers]] most famous all around the world with the [[Prix Goncourt]], literature prize given by the [[académie Goncourt]] for "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"
*Albin Michel

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File:2012 0057 Remparts de Langres.jpg|View from the walls of [[Langres]]
File:La Boisserie 04.jpg|[[Charles de Gaulle]]'s private residence in [[Colombey-les-Deux-Églises]]
File:Épée 193.JPG|[[Franks|Frankish]] sword discovered in [[Saint-Dizier]]
File:Joinville-Eglise (18).jpg|[[Joinville, Haute-Marne|Joinville]]
File:FR52 Cirey-sur-Blaise Château.jpg|Château of [[Cirey-sur-Blaise]]

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