Carency
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Carency is a village of northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais départment. It belongs to the communauté d'agglomération of Lens-Liévin (Communaupole) which gathers 36 communes, and has a population of 250 000 inhabitants.
- Population (1999): 668.
- Postal code: 62144.
Geography
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 link
- http://www.agglo-lenslievin.fr (in French)fr:Carency