GUISE

'Guise' is a commune of the Aisne ''département'' in northern France.

★ Population: 6,066

★ Area: 15.54 km²

★ Altitude: 97 m

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Economy

Miscellaneous

See also

Economy

Guise is the agricultural centre of the northern area of Aisne.

Miscellaneous

Guise was the birthplace of Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794), a journalist and politician who played an important part in the French Revolution.
It also hosted Jean-Baptiste Godin's ''familistère'', created on the model of Charles Fourier's ''phalanstères''.

See also

★ House of Guise