Ponthieu
Ponthieu was one of six feudal counties that eventually merged to become part of the Province of Picardy, in northern France. Its chief town is Abbeville.
History
Ponthieu played a small but important role in the politics that led up to the Norman invasion of England in 1066.
Norman conquest of England
Harold Godwinson of England was shipwrecked at Ponthieu, in 1064 and taken captive by Guy I (or Wido according to the Bayeux Tapestry), the then Count of Ponthieu. It is alleged that William (Duke of Normandy, later William I of England), discovering that Harold had been taken captive, sent messengers ordering Count Guy to hand over his prisoner. William then forced Harold to swear to support his claim to the throne, only revealing after the event that the box on which Harold had made his oath contained holy relics, making the promise especially binding.
In 1067 the chaplain of Matilda of Flanders, Guy, Bishop of Amiens, composed Carmen de Hastingae Proelio, a Latin poem on the battle of Hastings.
'Ponthieu' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Haute Pierre (2002)
Actors: Yvon Back (actor), Ange Bacucchi (actor), Géo Beuf (actor), Jean-Luc Bideau (actor), Patrick Bonnel (actor), Jacques Cusin (actor), Norbert Daverio (actor), Henri Doutreleau (actor), Jean-Claude Dumas (actor), Xavier-Adrien Laurent (actor), Emilio Martínez (actor), Luc Palun (actor), Jules Sitruk (actor), Jules Sitruk (actor), Michel André (actor),
Genres: ,Folle d'elle (1998)
Actors: Guy-Pierre Bennet (actor), Philippe Bergeron (actor), Frédéric Bouraly (actor), Aaron Brumfield (actor), Félix Castro (actor), Didier Cauchy (actor), Philippe Duquesne (actor), Jean-Pierre Kalfon (actor), Dominic Keating (actor), Archie Larochie (actor), Gilles Lellouche (actor), John P. Menese (actor), Jarrad Paul (actor), Kivi Rogers (actor), Jean-Marc Barr (actor),
Plot: A man (Barr) falls in love from afar with a woman (Winter), who has just broken up acrimoniously with her husband and is disgusted with all men except her gay friends. So he pretends to be gay to get to know her.
Keywords: gay-interest, homosexual, pretending-to-be-gayGenres: Comedy,
Beneath
Bewildered by silence
Stuck by its questions and lucid ways to make us aware
I did not know how cruel that could be
That so many cases will never be solved
That so many stories will never be told
I did not know how cruel that could be
Fighting a war that rages inside
The world can't see the hate that burns in there
How can we face what lies beneath,
If we just fear and don't fight back?
How many questions left unanswered?
How many tears and inner strength shall we need?
How any times can we encounter this again and again?
How many things exist that blind us?
How many forms of brutal violence can we see?
How many images of pain will make us numb
So hard, so cruel, we fail to see, we fail to feel?
So afraid, even without thecourage of despair?
Fighting a war that rages inside
The world can't see the hate that burns in there
How can we face what lies beneath,
If we just fear and don't fight back?
Afraid of ourselves, arfaid to stand up
I did not know how cruel that could be
We failed to see, we failed to feel
Still afraid, what if you love someone?
What if this happened to your loved ones?
What would you do if you were there at that time?
What makes you act like nothing happened?
Nothing's wrong, you're doing fine?
What makes you think you are immune to this?
What drove us so far to the edge of tolerance?
If judging and accusing is so easy, then why
Why still?
Fighting a war that rages inside
The world can't see the hate that burns in there
How can we face what lies beneath,