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Coordinates: 49°54′03″N 3°37′42″E / 49.9008°N 3.6283°E / 49.9008; 3.6283
Guise is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.
The ruins of the medieval castle of Guise, seat of the Dukes of Guise, are located in the commune.
Guise is the agricultural centre of the northern area of Aisne.
Guise was the birthplace of Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), a journalist and politician who played an important part in the French Revolution.
Over a period of 20 years, beginning about 1856, Jean-Baptiste Godin built Le Familistère (the Social Palace), an industrial and communal residential complex that was a separate community within Guise. It expressed many of his ideas about developing social sympathy through improved housing and services for workers and their families, influenced by the ideas of the philosopher Charles Fourier. In 1880 Godin created a cooperative association by which the workers owned and managed the complex. This continued until 1968.
Actors: Philippe Duclos (actor), Vincent Perez (actor), Johan Leysen (actor), Miguel Bosé (actor), Jean-Hugues Anglade (actor), Thomas Kretschmann (actor), Pascal Greggory (actor), Claudio Amendola (actor), Jean-Claude Brialy (actor), Daniel Auteuil (actor), Ivo Canelas (actor), Marc Citti (actor), Grégoire Colin (actor), Barbet Schroeder (actor), Emmanuel Salinger (actor),
Plot: The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults, poisonings, and instigations to incest.
Keywords: 1570s, adultery, based-on-novel, bourbon, catholic, catholic-church, character-name-in-title, christian-religion, decapitation, female-frontal-nudity