Bienvenue à
Calais
Par: An Huynh, Omar Ramirez, Rashin Sayed
Warm-Up!
1. What major trade post did France and England fight over?
(An)
2. How long was Calais controlled by the British rule and why
were the British so eager to hold on to it? (Omar)
3. What is Calais’s American Football team called?(Rashin)
Calais Map
Global Challenges
~In 2007, the Nord-Pas-De-Calais reached well over 96.5 billion european
dollars which made it one of the biggest french economies.
~The unemployment rate became higher than the national one
-in 2009, 12.8% of the population was unemployed
~Calais police stop over 400 immigrants per week as numbers reach 3,000
immigrants per month
~Calais fell after the Battle of Crecy in 1346
~Calais immigrant camps get evacuated
-it is estimated that about 600-800 immigrants moved out from each
camps before the evacuations.
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Beauty & Aesthetics
➔ Calais has one of the biggest lace and wool production in France.
◆ Lace was creating a lot of jobs in Calais until the Napoleonic War.
➔ Farmhouse: farms that had been converted into houses.
◆ This type of houses also appears in Upper Normandy Region.
➔ Big architectural influence from the neighboring Flander.
◆ Ex: Town Hall.
➔ Calais has several museums dedicated to art.
◆ One of these museum showcases Rodin’s artworks (Ex. The Six Burgher).
➔ There is also a lace museum in Sunnyvale.
➔ Calais isn’t very much like Mountain View because Calais doesn’t get a lot of tourism and isn’t
all that popular compare to the rest of France. While the Bay Area is pretty well known within
Silicon Valley.
➔ Dentelle: Lace
➔ Sculpter: Sculpting
Families and Communities
● In 2003, Calais had a little over 18,000 people
● In 2004, there was a spike in population by 3,000 people
o This was due to the British channel that connected the two countries
● The following year, there was a dent in population also due to people
moving to the U.K
● Once again it increased to 21,300
● Over time, the wave grows and shrinks even today
Science and Technology
➔ England and France fought throughout history for Calais due to its potential as a great trading post.
➔ France eventually retook Calais as its own and the town became a great passing point for trade during the
late 18th century.
➔ During WW1 it was the supplies point of arms and reinforcements.
➔ Due to its significance to France’s military history, it was one of the first place attacked during WW2.
➔ One of the town main export was lace due a smuggled lace-making machine from England.
➔ Unfortunately, Calais’s tourism had dropped in recent years and Calais is slowly fading out from the
tourist map as one of the major place to visit in France. I think that eventually Calais is going to need to
serious reform itself if it wants tourism to still be a major way of providing money.
➔ Commerce: Trade
➔ L’histoire: history
Contemporary Life
Sports:
● Calais has represented in association football by the Calais RUFC, who compete
in the Championnat National
● The club was founded in 1902 as Racing Club de Calais and in 1974 was renamed
Calais Racing Union Football Club
● Calais RUFC has a good reputation in French cup competitions and went as far as
the final in 1999/2000 season, but unfortunately lost out to Nantes
● Since 2008, they have played at the Stade de I’Epopée, a stadium which holds 12,000
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spectators
Other sports in Calais include:
○ Rugby
○ Basketball
○ Volleyball
○ Handball
○ Yachting
○ American Football (Les Seagulls)
Personal & Public Identities
~French was spoken in Calais with also a great deal of English
~The west Germanic language known as Flemish (closely related to
Dutch) was also spoken in Calais.
~in 2007, Calais was roughly 52% females and 48% males
~Catholicism still the most dominant faith
~Protestantism almost completely disappeared
~There are also a few muslims scattered throughout the population
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Comprehensions Questions
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After what battle did Calais fall in 1346? (Omar)
What was the main export of Calais? (An)
What year was RUFC founded? (Rashin)
(True or false) Calais wasn’t really of major
importance in history. (An)
5. What year did Calais’s population
increase?(Rashin)
6. What gender was there more of in 2007? (Omar)
Answer!
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6.
The Battle of Crecy
Lace
1902 (renamed in 1974)
False (or arguable).
2004
More females ;)
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq6Jjat9iD8
This video was filmed during 2011 and took place
on the borders of the UK.
Comprehension Questions
1. What was one of the tool they used and what did
it do?
2. How many people did the workers find and
where did they come from?
3. What could be some consequences of getting
caught Immigrating Illegally?
Answer
1. A handheld device that is use to detect carbon dioxide in
order to identify whether or not there are people in the truck.
2. The workers found 12 people in the trucks that night and they
came from both Afghanistan and Iran
3. You could be detained and for each person found, there is a
2,000 pound penalty for both driver and the truck’s company
Regional Dish!
Bêtises de Cambrai
Sweets
La Fin