Carency
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Carency is a village of northern France, in the départment of Pas-de-Calais. It belongs to the agglomeration of Lens-Liévin which gathers 36 communes, and has a population of 250 000 inhabitants. Before the agglomeration, it used to be in the arondissement of ?.

Population (1999): 668.

Postal code: 62144.

Carency is also the name of the brook which constitutes the course upstream of Deûle and which crosses the village.

History

François Faber, winner of the 1909 Tour de France, died there in combat on May 9, 1915, during World War I.

External Links

• http://www.agglo-lenslievin.fr (in French)

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